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Piazza

Piazza is an interactive forum-like platform designed to facilitate richer collaborative discussion within classes. Piazza is integrated with Sakai as an external tool, allowing instructors and learners to engage in course discussions by posting prompts, dialogic questions, endorsing student responses, and editing posted content. Features such as a wiki format, the ability to highlight for immediate reply, and customizable polls help to promote more expedient and meaningful connection.  


Training

Smarter Class Conversations: Using Piazza to Save Time and Boost Engagement (30 minutes)

Piazza is an online Q&A platform integrated with Sakai that enables dynamic, course-based discussions. It supports a collaborative and interactive learning environment, helping you and your students engage more effectively while saving time. Its intuitive, wiki-style format lets users contribute to a single, shared answer for course questions. The platform also offers a LaTeX editor, syntax highlighting, code blocks, anonymous posting options, and detailed analytics to track student engagement. In partnership with Piazza, we invite you to explore this powerful tool and see how it can enrich your course.

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Resources & Support

For questions or to request assistance with Piazza, please contact the ITS Service Desk at ITSServiceDesk@luc.edu or 773-508-4487.

Last Modified:   Wed, March 11, 2026 11:21 PM CDT

Piazza is an interactive forum-like platform designed to facilitate richer collaborative discussion within classes. Piazza is integrated with Sakai as an external tool, allowing instructors and learners to engage in course discussions by posting prompts, dialogic questions, endorsing student responses, and editing posted content. Features such as a wiki format, the ability to highlight for immediate reply, and customizable polls help to promote more expedient and meaningful connection.  


Training

Smarter Class Conversations: Using Piazza to Save Time and Boost Engagement (30 minutes)

Piazza is an online Q&A platform integrated with Sakai that enables dynamic, course-based discussions. It supports a collaborative and interactive learning environment, helping you and your students engage more effectively while saving time. Its intuitive, wiki-style format lets users contribute to a single, shared answer for course questions. The platform also offers a LaTeX editor, syntax highlighting, code blocks, anonymous posting options, and detailed analytics to track student engagement. In partnership with Piazza, we invite you to explore this powerful tool and see how it can enrich your course.

Watch Recording


Resources & Support

For questions or to request assistance with Piazza, please contact the ITS Service Desk at ITSServiceDesk@luc.edu or 773-508-4487.