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.
I removed the “our regulars” to be more inclusive to the community and added a comment for teachers at the bottom.
Emphasis on integrity for everyone; including me.
Homework questions are welcome here. Teachers* from around the world encourage their students to use this forum.
You are responsible for completing your homework with academic integrity and the community for assisting with integrity.
The community may assist you to help solve problems yourself by:
Getting you started.
Breaking down problems.
Problem-solving.
Building your confidence by guiding you and letting you do your own homework.
Important points:
Homework questions should be identified as homework.
You are responsible for following the academic policies of your school, class, and instructor.
Do not ask for complete code solutions.
Do not offer complete code solutions.
Properly format your code.
If you only want general advice (without code) please say so explicitly such as “No code, please.”
Posts with answers belong to the community and may not be deleted.
Deleted posts will be restored at the discretion of the moderators.
These are living documents and should always evolve.
Feel free to use any part of this.
Somewhere in the FAQ we should state that we are all volunteers here that contribute by volunteering our time, energy and skills to support the Processing community.
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 a new topic is a positive first step to directing people to the FAQ and guidelines.
The links may not be viewed if they are not “clickable”.
Right now there is no way to embed “clickable” links into new posts without making them visible – text in the editor is text. If they are clickable once posted they will also show up in the preview window (if it isn’t covered by a warning), but they won’t be in the editor window (e.g. the mobile editor without preview). We hope that newcomers will delete the template, but I’m worried about them spamming the same tip text 1000 times all over the forum. Any suggestions about that?
I suppose a post could come with a visible header.
[homework policy](/t/5#homework) * [asking questions](/t/2147) * please format code with </> button <!-- You may delete this before posting. -->
Which will display in preview (and will be posted, if they don’t delete it) like this:
I suppose a post could come with a visible header.
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 wanted to let you know the error message is not unique to one instance.
Take care!
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-questions/2147
-->
We all have other priorities in life at this time; focus on those and take care of this when you have the time.
Could I get feedback from Spanish speakers on the template for the Español channel? Keeping in mind that we don’t have a translation of those policy pages yet… @montoyamoraga
can we have a new FAQ site in Spanish, with no link from the main site,
i don’t want a FAQ link and then next to it a FAQ in Spanish link, but i would mention it right away on the FAQ, like, “for spanish, click here, for japanese, click here”, i don’t know if that is possible or how to set it up.
happy to help and translate it
I’ve looked and it is definitely possible. We can create it as a normal post – just post the text to site feedback or lounge as a normal post, and I can turn it into a special page. Then we can edit the FAQ and link it just as you suggest.
Let me know how I can support you – very excited that you are excited about this.
We’ve had our Homework FAQ and template for three weeks and the “homework” tag for a couple of weeks. People are responding directly to students about the FAQ – and also flagging direct asks for complete solutions (as we always have).
How do people feel it is working so far? Problems? Improvements?
I really like the changes! It’s now much easier/faster to direct a student to the homework guidelines.
I also think the homework tag is super effective for a number of reasons.
Student questions seem to entail a longer time commitment from forum members as there are often follow up questions. I do not view this as an issue but rather just something good to know in advance.
Also, it serves as a nice reminder to students that they are on a forum committed to teaching how to reach a solution rather than providing full code solutions.
And, the added layer of searchability in the collected homework posts for future students coming to the forum is certainly a plus.
Students formatting their code as requested continues to be hit or miss… I am at a loss for ideas on this…
thank you @jeremydouglass i will do the translation right now, hoping to finish it today and posting it as you suggest, i will tag you and check how it is best to integrate it to the website
