Canvas-Ed Discussion Pilot for Faculty and Students

Canvas-Ed Discussion Pilot for Faculty and Students

Faculty and Students, 

The Courseware steering group (Canvas) is currently evaluating Ed Discussion (a tool that provides a platform for students and instructors to interact through threaded discussions) as a potential replacement for Piazza.  

If you are interested in this pilot please email ithelp@design.upenn.edu and we will coordinate access for your course.  Below is a brief overview of the tool:

• Students can answer one another’s questions, work on and run code together, embed video, annotate images, and share documents.
• Instructors can endorse student responses. Students can like one another’s posts, post anonymously, and receive instructor feedback all in one place.
• Ed Discussion’s features foster community and peer learning. Additionally, students may opt to use Ed Discussion to ask questions about the course, which could reduce emails to the instructor.
• Ed Discussion is highly customizable with categories for certain questions or threads and an easy-to-use search and filter tool.

You can view more detailed information about this tool here.

- Weitzman IT Services