By Ilana W-B
In the post-Facebook world, social networking seems to be the accepted solution to a vast array of problems. Your homework is no exception. The New York Times recently featured the start-up Piazza. This article explains that Piazza enables users to post questions, which are then answered by instructors or peers. The average question receives an answer in 14 minutes. Instructors can moderate the responses and highlight the best ones. One Princeton instructor who uses Piazza said she used students' records of providing helpful comments to others' questions to grade their participation for the semester.
Piazza may solve the problems on your problem set, but what about the greater challenges of college, like ensuring you'll graduate in a reasonable number of years? The software start-up MyEdu can help you there. Boasting a four-year graduation rate nearly double that of the national average, MyEdu helps you make a degree plan and plot the quickest path to graduation. You can read the New York Times article here.
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