Piazza vs Student Pickup

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!

Student Pickup makes school dismissal calmer and safer. Parents open the app and show a QR code. Staff scan it from the pickup line, and the right children are called to the right spot. No phone calls to the office, no paper lists, and no guessing whether the car at the curb belongs to the right family. FOR PARENTS - Follow your children's pickup status during dismissal - Show a pickup code that refreshes on a timer, so an old screenshot cannot be reused - Ask another parent to collect your child. They confirm in their own app, and your children join their pickup spot for the day. - Send a one-day guest pass to someone who does not have an account FOR STAFF - Scan pickup codes with the camera - Follow a live board of who has arrived and which spot they are waiting in - Handle guest pickups as they arrive FOR ADMINISTRATORS - Upload the student and family roster from a CSV file - Add other administrators - Export the dismissal log PRIVACY No advertising, no analytics SDKs, and no tracking of any kind. The camera is used only to read pickup codes, decoded on the device and never stored or transmitted. Access to student records is limited to each child's own family and the school's own staff. You can delete your account and its data from inside the app at any time. GETTING STARTED Student Pickup works with schools that have adopted it for dismissal. Your school adds your email address to its roster, and you then register with that same address. If your school does not use Student Pickup yet, ask your school office about it.