piazza q & a platform type private industry education saas founded 2009 headquarters palo alto ca key people pooja nath sankar ceo and founder slogan ask . answer . explore . whenever . website http www.piazza.com piazza is a q & a web service . it can be described as mixture between a wiki and a forum 1 that can be used with learning management systems . contents 1 history 1.1 funding 2 service 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit pooja sankar created the first prototype of piazza in 2009 . 2 3 by february 2010 piazza was used by approximately 600 stanford students . 4 in january 2011 piazza opened to all institutions reaching over 330 schools and tens of thousands of students by the summer of the same year . 5 6 while the service originally operated under the name piazzza 7 in june 2011 the third z was dropped from piazza s name . 8 funding edit 8m announced on february 27 2014 6m announced on january 6 2012 1.5 m announced on july 5 2011 service edit users can publicly and anonymously if the head instructor allows it ask questions answer questions and post notes . each question prompts a collective answer to which any user can contribute and an instructor answer shown directly below which can only be edited by instructors . users are allowed to attach external files to posts use latex formatting view a post s edit history add follow up questions and receive email notifications when new content is added . the interface consists of a dynamic list of posts on the left side of the screen a central panel for viewing and contributing to individual posts and an upper bar for account control . 9 according to the company s data the average piazza question is answered within 14 minutes . 10 individual piazza classes are self contained and can be locked with an access code . anyone may create a class but the head instructor retains full control over the class content along with administrative abilities such as endorsing good answers and viewing more detailed statistics on class activity . 11 the piazza team is based in palo alto california . 12 see also edit social constructivism references edit kincaid jason 5 february 2010 . piazzza gives classmates an online forum to trade their knowledge . techcrunch . retrieved 2 july 2011 . piazzza a new q & a tool free for academic purposes . seminars & colloquia in computer science . ncsu dept. of computer science . 20 april 2011 . retrieved 2 july 2011 . rusli evelyn m. 3 july 2011 . homework help site has a social networking twist . the new york times . retrieved 3 july 2011 . kincaid jason 5 february 2010 . piazzza gives classmates an online forum to trade their knowledge . techcrunch . retrieved 2 july 2011 . piazzza a new q & a tool free for academic purposes . seminars & colloquia in computer science . ncsu dept. of computer science . 20 april 2011 . retrieved 2 july 2011 . rusli evelyn m. 3 july 2011 . homework help site has a social networking twist . the new york times . retrieved 3 july 2011 . wayback machine piazzza.com . internet archive . archived from the original on february 7 2011 . retrieved 10 november 2014 . griffith terri 30 june 2011 . what happens when students create their own collaboration tools . gigaom . retrieved 2 july 2011 . piazza tutorial class . piazza technologies inc. 2011 . retrieved 2 july 2011 . rusli evelyn m. 3 july 2011 . homework help site has a social networking twist . the new york times . retrieved 3 july 2011 . instructor faq class . piazza technologies inc. 2011 . retrieved 2 july 2011 . piazza privacy policy . piazza technologies inc. 29 may 2011 . retrieved 2 july 2011 . external links edit official site article in the new york times article in the stanford daily list of news articles featured post in terri griffith s technology and organizations blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title piazza q % 26a platform & oldid 713006121 categories palo alto californiaeducational technology companiesinternet properties established in 2009software companies based in californiahidden categories articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 1 april 2016 at 10 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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