Piazza Sign-Up Tutorial and Directions

Step 1: Click on this link:piazza.com/cornell/other/simcafe 

Step 2: Join as a "Student", enter SimCafe for the class access code and click on "Add Class"

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Step 3: Enter your email address. Note that this will work even if you do not have a cornell.edu email address. 

Step 4:  If you already have a Piazza account: Simply log in. 

               If this is your first time using Piazza: Retrieve the validation code sent to you by email, set-up a password for your account and enter your full name (note that Piazza can let you post anonymously). 

Congrats! You are now enrolled in our Piazza discussion board! The class name is "SimCafe SimCafe [Other]".

Notifications

We highly recommended that you change your email notifications settings as follows to ensure that you receive e-mails only for the threads that you follow or post to. 

1. Click on the arrow at the top right corner of the page and select "account/email settings".

2.  Click on "edit email notifications" under the SimCafe class. 

3. Select "No emails" for "new questions or notes" and save your settings.

Note that you will receive real time emails for tutorial discussions that you follow. When you add a follow up discussion for a tutorial, you will automatically follow that discussion and therefore receive emails letting you know of every new comments. If you do not wish to receive any more notifications for a particular tutorial, please unfollow it by clicking on "stop following" as shown on the picture below. 

How to use 

We intend to have people use our Piazza "class" a bit differently from what you might be used to. For simplicity, the discussion board is split up in "notes" for every tutorial. Each "Comments and Discussion" sections of the SimCafe tutorials will redirect you to its corresponding "note". To ask a question or write a comment, first find the "note" matching the tutorial you want to discuss and compose a new followup discussion. DO NOT click the New Post button. 

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Know that you can navigate the different "notes" by selecting the appropriate general folder.  

And most importantly, feel free to reply to other people's comments or questions! This is actually the whole point of using Piazza along with SimCafe,  to make it easier for users to collaborate on developing, upgrading, and maintaining curricular materials on simulation technology.