With the introduction of Piazza this week, I wanted to poke around with the system and see how things worked for this tool. I enjoyed that everything appeared to be located in one single location for the course group in a single main page. I don’t know if this is the way that it appears with everyone else, but on the main page of the EME 6414 Piazza group, I can see the header at the top of the page and the new post button are highlighted in a bright deep blue color that draws the eye. The rest of the page is white. If I click on a specific post, it highlights it in yellow, which is helpful if you have to navigate away to another browser tab and need to remember where you were. Also, if you have any unread posts, it will show an alert in the post area with a gray box showing how many posts and replies there are to read in the group. I like how interactive the tool is, and with multiple classmates bouncing items off of each other, it can help topics move and get more exposure!
Let me know what you all think!
Lauren Horne, MS
Thank you for sharing your review, Lauren! I have not joined Piazza, but based on your insight it sounds like a valuable collaborative tool. Is there anything about it that you did not like so far? or anything that you found particularly tricky to navigate?
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