Innovative Ed-Discussion Platform for Enhanced Student Collaboration
Explore Ed-Discussion, a robust Q&A platform similar to Piazza, designed to facilitate efficient communication among students and staff. From Q&A discussions to collaboration on group projects, peer reviews, and formative feedback, Ed-Discussion offers a user-friendly interface integrated with CANVAS. Discover feedback from staff, ongoing courses, and the opportunity to trial Ed-Discussion for upcoming sessions.
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Ed-Discussion Canvas & Teaching Technology Monthly Meeting Radhini Sabanayagam FA July 2022
Ed-Discussion What is it: Similar to Piazza, Ed-Discussion is a Q&A platform designed to help students and staff communicate efficiently and effectively. Ed Discussion can be used for: Q&A discussions, students can post anonymous questions to other students or teaching team Collaboration, students can work on group projects or study together Peer review, students post their work in progress files and give feedback to each other Back-channel discussion, teaching team members can coordinate their work Formative feedback, where teaching staff provides feedback to specific individuals, groups, or the entire class 2
Courses Piloted/Pilotting STATS 201/208 EDUC 283 POPLHLTH 300 TFCEDUC 13F EDCURSEC 692A/B EDPROFST 613 LAWCOMM 456 LAWPUBL 432 LAWPUBL 465 ENGSCI 255/STATS 255 BUSMGT 714 BUSMGT 711 STATS 100 STATS 220 BUSMGT 712 MGMT 300 3
Feedback from staff Some of these courses are continuing on from S1/Q1/Q2 to S2/Q3/Q4 as they like how it works. Feedback generally more +tive than negative Ed-Discussion is more user friendly, cleaner, no distractions, interface from a basic users point of view very easy to use (don t need to know html code to use it). Can make alterations quite easily. Easy to add students and Students took to it easily as well. Strong resistance from staff at faculty to use Piazza. Easy to add graphs and edit the graphs that students posted. interface very simple and not complicated. The interface and useability of Ed is so much nicer, love how integrated it is with CANVAS - with actual student names/emails attached. One staff member commented that I love the data I can export from Ed discussion for further analysis e.g. the JSON of threads and the coding snippets are great. helps for the kind of large scale analysis I do. 4
Call-out for more courses for S2 If anyone is wanting to trial Ed-Discussion we are happy to enable this for your course. Can be enabled for S2, Q3 and Q4 courses in 2022 Please log a request through the portal, asking this to be enabled for your course. 5
