I tried to find some guidelines in the forum about how to help students who are asking for help with their homework. It may be useful to have this information in a very visible place on the site? In the past week have noticed a couple of instances of students asking for help with homework assignme…

I am trying to activate a site-wide tag, “homework.” New users can use it to self-tag their posts, or other users can (I believe?) modify a post and add the homework tag to it. We can try it out and see if it is helpful. Site search also includes a tag field that lets you filter by homework: https…

Hello, For consideration… This was my edit of this; a bit late but I had other priorities. I wanted to include the community as taking responsibility as well. I changed the “Our goal is… and… and…” to “may” and points; that is a lot of responsibility to bear as is. I can help with what I can. …

@jeremydouglass Hello, This what I get when starting a new topic: [image] The link above to the Homework Policy gives an error: Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private. I am seeing an increased number of posts that appear to be homework or academic assignments. This notice when creating …

Hi @glv Thanks for this feedback. Could you please try cutting and pasting that link again? I just tried, and it worked fine – just as it did when I first created it. https://discourse.processing.org/t/faq-guidelines/5#homework Still, if you are having a problem, clearly newcomers may have a pro…

[image] glv: This was my edit of this; a bit late but I had other priorities. I wanted to include the community as taking responsibility as well. Also: sorry I’m late in seeing this. Swamped today, but will look it over and try to incorporate as soon as I can. Many thanks.

I was getting the same error message a couple days ago, but thought the setup was still in progress so did not post the error message at that time… Just clicked on the 2 links above and get the “OOPS! That page does not exist.” But I agree with @glv , regarding this not being anything urgent. Just …

Hello, [image] jeremydouglass: https://discourse.processing.org/t/faq-guidelines/5#homework This is what I get: [image] We all have other priorities in life at this time; focus on those and take care of this when you have the time. Stay well!

Okay, looks like the link is a secret internal staff link for editing the FAQ created by discourse, and the public link is: /faq/#homework …does that work?

Yay! The link works now… :smile: When you update “new topic” posts is there a way to make it a “clickable” link? <!-- Tips: Format your code with </> Homework policy: https://discourse.processing.org/t/faq-guidelines/5#homework Asking Questions: https://discourse.processing.org/t/guidelines-asking…

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