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Piazza, Course Communication Tool
For Fall 2024, Grainger Engineering has sanctioned the free version of Piazza through campus purchasing and risk assessment. Piazza is available to courses who wish to use it.
Work is underway to integrate Piazza within Canvas.
Courses (or departments) can buy a license for Piazza to enable premium features such: polls, statistics, and class locking capabilities, which are not in the free tier. See their Paid model for Piazza Q&A article for more information.
Getting Started as an Instructor
Instructors can navigate to https://piazza.com/instructors/illinois to start setting up their course.
Enrolling Students
Roster sync or Single Sign On capabilities are not currently available. Instructors must "invite" students, TAs, and other Instructors using their university email addresses.
This will change after integration with Canvas is available.
Support
Tech support can be sent to Engineering IT's eLearning group via engrit-help@illinois.edu
Help from Piazza is available at https://piazza.com/toolkit and https://support.piazza.com/support/home
Guides and Resources
Visit the Piazza demo class
Support Resources: Getting Started - Instructor
Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy for Piazza
Accessibility
Mobile Apps
Piazza has mobile apps for iPhone and Android: Mobile Apps