Policy on Students Helping Students

Canvas is the online equivalent of a classroom and interaction space for everybody associated with a class - students, TAs, and faculty. In particular, this is the only place where it is appropriate for students to help each other with assignments: here it is open to other students and can be monitored by faculty, anywhere else it is not.

The following rules apply:

1. Students are encouraged to interact and help each other on the Canvas discussion board. Faculty will monitor these discussions to be sure that advice is correct and also to keep help from becoming too much of a giveaway. Faculty will also help here, of course.
2. Faculty may also provide help in special cases via email - this is rare, and the use of the BB forums is encouraged, but there are circumstances where email may be appropriate.
3. Any instance of students getting help from anyone other than faculty via email or an external chat facility such as "slack", will be considered a violation of the FSU honor code and, if discovered, both the givers and receivers of such outside help will be given a grade of F.

The term "faculty" is used above to include all of the instructional staff for the class: Faculty, TAs, and Mentors.

This policy is in place to maintain control of the teaching and learning envirionment for the class.

Policy on Posting Code

Course policy is that students and former students are not permitted to freely distribute or make available to the public any code that has been used as part of a course assignment. Former students who have either graduated or are cleared for graduation may put code in a portfolio that is password protected and may divulge the password to appropriate individuals for the purpose of applications for employment and other professional evaluations. But even for former students, openly distributing code where it might facilitate unethical copying by students in courses you have already taken is a clear violation of professional ethics.