By Dian Schaffhauser
05/27/21
Piazza, an education technology company that develops a platform for community learning, has updated its application to give campus administrators more control over course creation and course sign-ups through the learning management system. The primary enhancements include integration of Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3, the latest version, from the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO).
The program serves as a Q&A platform for a course that allows students to pose questions and answers by name or anonymously, respond to polls and get feedback from their instructors. The software uses a wiki-style format that supports, code, mathematical notation, videos, images and other kinds of files. Faculty who use Piazza have reported that it eliminates e-mail clutter and compels higher student participation.
GUELPH A University of Guelph student has created a website that helps debunk myths, conspiracies, and general misinformation around COVID-19…like how onions aren t the cure. The aptly named onionsdontcurecovid.com is part of a campaign started by Lauren Chang to help guide people through misconceptions about the virus. The site uses a series of infographics and videos to help share factual and credible information taken from Canadian Public Health surrounding COVID-19. Our aim is not to look at these things and laugh at the people that may be believing it, said Chang. This is why we encourage people to look at what the information is telling them to do, and as long as it doesn t hurt you and you re able to do it while following public health guidelines, I don t see a problem with it.