Piazza Management

General Piazza Info

See PiazzaTips for more information on setting up Piazza.

Information for CS135 ISAs

• MAKE A SCHEDULE. This is particularly important for larger teams.

  • Figure out who is responsible for handling Piazza on which days. There should be 1 or 2 ISAs monitoring, organizing, and replying to Piazza questions everyday.

  • Enforce it! Keep each other accountable.

• Look for similar questions before answering to ensure consistency and potentially to link to the other question.

• Pin important/urgent posts (e.g. assignment FAQs, assignment grades being released, any changes in regularly scheduled activities).

• Unpin posts as soon as the information is no longer of vital importance: having too many pinned posts will overwhelm students

  • Instructions for pinning and unpinning posts https://support.piazza.com/support/solutions/articles/48000616735-pin-a-post

• Create a general archive post to put important information posts that are not urgent. Make different categories (recommended: Information + Announcements, Guidelines, Assignments, Tutorials, Assessments, Other). Most recent information should be at the top of each category. Each item should have the title of post, post number @, and date.

  • Example from Fall 2020:
    

Additional Info

• Be aware when a student has posted anonymously: be careful not to mention them, by name, in your replies.

• When you link a student to a post on Piazza that is private, they will not be able to see it by default (unless they made the private post themselves). Be cognizant of this when answering questions.

• Students can pin their own posts using the macro.

-- Amy Luo - 2020-12-23

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