Piazza vs Acadly

Piazza is the leading social learning platform for higher education, used by hundreds of thousands of students and more than 15 thousand professors for centralized class communications and polling. If you're a student, the Piazza app lets you ask and answer questions in all your Piazza classes from your mobile device, and updates you in real time when your peers are engaged. If you're an instructor, the app gives you a simple way to check in on your students during those spare moments between meetings. Stay connected to your class with Piazza!

Now convert every college classroom into a smart classroom with Acadly. Welcome more efficient teaching-learning with - - One tap attendance - Record class participation - Live in-class polls, quizzes - Math expression supported chat What is Acadly? Acadly is a realtime tool for live in-class polling, quizzing, Q&A, attendance and analytics on student behaviour. Compared to clickers and other in-class apps Acadly is free, can save a class of 50 more than $1000 a semester, has a built-in class chat platform so that you don't have to use too many tools for your class. Given the unique course structure that is exclusive to Acadly, it can facilitate various pedagogical methods. An instructor can use Acadly to practice - * Flipped Classrooms * Active Learning Classrooms * Blended Learning * Collaborative Teaching * BYOD teaching Using Acadly, course instructors can - * Conduct Attendance with One Tap * Create and Conduct Live Quizzes * Create Live Polls * Track student attendance during lectures * Conduct live discussions * Share files, videos and links * Make Announcements * Post Lecture Summaries * Create and Grade Assignments Students in the meanwhile can raise queries, as themselves or anonymously. Discussions on Acadly are auto-created and contextual, which means the students don't have to navigate away from the context to make a point. Since Acadly is realtime, all the members of a course get instant in-app and push notifications. 1000+ professors have signed up in the last few months and are using Acadly actively in their classrooms. Acadly aims to be the last ed-tech tool to be ever used and we are only just getting started. Happy teaching and learning!