 Hi everyone, it's Brandi. I wanted to give you a quick demo of the Piazza platform we will be using for our discussion forum assignments in each lesson, as well as our sort of general questions about the class. Think of it as a place where if you would raise your hand and ask it in class, this is where you should ask it in our online setting. So this is sort of the landing page as a student that you will see when you log in. I've logged in as a student, not as the instructor, so that this demo that I'm giving you will show you things exactly as you would see them. So right off the bat, obviously there's not much content in here because the class hasn't started yet and no one's posting but me. But as things start moving along, this left-hand white column here will start to populate with all of the posts that you can see. And here across the top you'll see the different the different folders of the different types of posts that we'll make. So there will be a lesson folder for each of the lessons one through twelve, and then there's a folder here for our introductory posts where we introduce ourselves to our classmates. And then there are two other ones, care to share and technical help. I've got posts in each of those that give a brief description of what they're about, so I would encourage you to to read those. But I thought that maybe a good exercise for us today would be if I walked you through how I as a student would do my introductory post. So I would click on new post and I would change it from question to note because I'm not posting something that I need an answer to. And I want to make sure that I'm posting this to the entire class as opposed to just posting to the instructor or to one of the groups in the class. And in in this setting class group refers to the the discussion teams that I've made for for our discussion assignments. And those are named after the colors of the rainbow. And I assigned this student to team purple. So the first thing that I want to make sure that I do is assign this to the introductions folder. That way it gets filed with all of the other introductions. And then I'm just going to type in my post in the orientation. I did ask that for your sort of subject line summary here, you write your name and where you're from. Generally you don't have to give us your address. And then I would make my introductory post here. Hopefully yours is a little longer and more descriptive than mine. And make sure it includes a picture either of you, your pet, your favorite place to vacation, your favorite food, something. I'm not going to make you share a picture of yourself with us, but hopefully you'll share at least a picture of something that's important to you. And then you can just hit post my note. And as you can see, it shows up right there in the left hand navigation. And then depending on how you have your preferences set up, you can you can have it so that Piazza will email you every time a new post is made. And if you're using the mobile app, you can have it push notifications to your phone. And I'll tell you that I do plan to employ that for for myself so that you should know that if you're posting a question here that needs a quick answer, that's that's about as quick as it's going to be, because I'm going to see that long before I'll, you know, see anything an angel. So the care to share and the technical help folders you can use, you know, if you're having some sort of technical difficulty with the class, angels not working, the course website is down, there's a link that's broken, post about that here so that we can get it fixed quickly for you and so that your classmates are aware of the issue as well. And the care to share folder option, I thought that would be a little a nice way for us to have a good landing pad to share things that are related to the class but not directly in one of our discussion forum postings. So, you know, if you're attending an event in your area related to climate change, or if you want to share a link about a new article or a movie you've seen or anything like that, or you want to ask questions, this is the place to do it. And all I ask is that you make sure that nothing you're posting would be inflammatory or offensive to any of your classmates, remembering that this can be a pretty polarizing issue politically and otherwise. And obviously, please don't post anything that's that's not that's not relevant. This, you know, we can't be advertising for 31 in Norwex parties or anything like that in here. So I'll try to make sure that I police this to make sure that nothing's getting posted that shouldn't. But I trust that we'll all take care to make sure that it's, you know, used as intended. So those are some of the basic features of piazza. We'll all be learning more as we go. This is this is also my first time using it. But I'm hopeful that because it has such a such a more intuitive interface and feels a lot more like Facebook or some other social media that that you might use to connect with people, and that you can use it very easily on your phone, that it will be a great way for us to keep in touch over the course of the semester.