Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
This is great news. However, anyone who&#x27;s used Piazza (the main &quot;classroom&quot; tool for OMSCS) knows that it&#x27;s hardly ideal. I think a better collaboration&#x2F;discussion tool is imperative to making the experience better for the &quot;average&quot; student.<p>Sure the top students in the program are going to do well, by definition, but there are plenty of more &quot;middling&quot; people like myself that can only be brought up to the next level with proper discussion&#x2F;interaction with classmates. From my experience even PHPbb would be a more effective tool than Piazza.<p>---<p>Suggestions (if Piazza folks are reading):<p>1. Allow one to delete follow-ups.<p>2. Allow students to create private &quot;study group&quot;-like 
threads that aren&#x27;t in the main feed.<p>3. Make it easier to upload pictures and other content.<p>4. Make things live. Normally this wouldn&#x27;t be necessary, but anyone in the program knows many students post the same thing at the same time as a response to an event (like an email). By doing this you prevent redundant threads from being created.<p>5. Use some sort of up&#x2F;down voting system that way the community can self-regulate.<p>There are plenty more things I&#x27;d improve, but for the sake of brevity those are some I just came up with on the spot.