Relating to the discussion and controversy around questions that are tagged, explicited stated as, presumed, or suspected to be homework questions (i.e. those given to a student in a formal course of study).
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A Consolidated Homework Policy
A certain theme during the Town Hall Chat was on the question of a homework policy. The idea of such a policy is not new. As one user said in the chat,
I liked Rob john's suggestion towards ...
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How to ask a homework question?
How to ask a homework question?
Can I ask a homework question here?
How do I ask a homework question on this website?
What information should I include in a question about homework?
Why don't you ...
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What is the proper way to handle homework questions?
I feel that this topic is important enough to deserve its own page, rather than having bits and pieces be scattered across many answers and comments.
It is inevitable that many students will come to ...
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What do we do with users who post numerous unlabeled homework questions?
User student has, quite impressively, recognized that all of user6560's questions are homework questions from the ongoing course Math 620 at the University of Buffalo. I just went through, downvoted ...
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Homework questions - avoiding giving a complete solution
We already have a question, on the policy of handling homework questions, but I believe that this point is important enough to deserve its own discussion. There is a general consensus that completely ...
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Proper use of the (homework) tag redux
When, if ever, is it appropriate to add the homework tag to a question that has not been acknowledged by the OP to be homework?
My position is that it is never appropriate, full stop. It’s fine to ...
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Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions which have no accompanying text
Edit: Clarification: I think we should start closing questions which are obviously copied verbatim from a homework assignment and which consist of no other text. Questions about homework with other ...
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Downvoting Complete Solutions
I recently had an answer to this homework question downvoted twice because I provided a complete solution. Has a consensus been reached about how to treat homework problems? If not, is this an ...
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People who ask homework questions and then remove them
It just happened (again) that someone removed a homework question after getting responses in comments. I realized this because the OP had responded to my comment before deleting the question, so that ...
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Proper use of Homework Tag
I know from searching through the history here on meta that virtually every permutation of question regarding the [homework] tag has been discussed, but I could not find an answer to my question. ...
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How do we enforce the homework policy?
I thought we had agreed not to give complete solutions to homework problems, but apparently some people didn't get the message. If this is not explicitly in the FAQ, it should be. Once that happens, ...
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What is our policy on questions that are quite clearly homework?
What's the policy with questions like
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1368/prove-a-bn-an-bn
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1350/is-the-set-of-polynomials-of-degree-2-a-vector-space
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Can we please stop asking “Is this homework?”
This is irritating and tedious, just put something about homework in the FAQ if it's necessary. If you don't want to just 'give people the answer' then treat all questions as if they are homework.
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Referring users to other forums: if and when.
Many new users do things that are contrary to the culture at MSE. They ...
ask in the imperative (often thanks to translate.google),
ask too often,
haven't "tried" anything (besides registering ...
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Do we limit how often someone may ask about their homework?
I am thinking of a particular string of questions, such as here, here, and here. This particular user has asked over 10 questions of this flavor in the last 3 days, and many of them are being ...
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One of my students may be getting math.SE to do their homework
So I strongly suspect that one of my students is asking all their homework questions here. In particular, all the questions that user8917 has asked about probability are homework questions that I have ...
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Why do some answerers prefer full solutions to hints for homework and homework-like questions?
Recently a few discussions on homework questions appeared (or re-appeared) on meta.
Originally I wanted to post something like this into one of them. But perhaps it is better to post this as a ...
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What is a homework question?
I can't find an appropriate definition of what the homework tag should cover. Is it homework if it is not to be handed in? Is it homework if it is an exercise from a book during self-study? Is it ...
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Should we add the homework tag to a question?
If I see a series of questions that are clearly homework (from my class!!!), should I tag them as such?
If so, what should I say in the summary so it doesn't get rejected?
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Policy guidelines on asking homework questions
Hi,
I have noticed recently the big debate going on here about homework questions. On our student support site, for each course that a student is enrolled in there is a forum specific to the course. ...
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Do we really want a [homework] tag?
What is the purpose of a [homework] tag? It can't be to differentiate homework questions from non-homework ones since it's impossible to verify whether or not a question is homework. I don't think ...
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What have you tried? Is this homework? You will get more help if …
It was fine/acceptable seeing occasional users receiving one/two line comments about appropriate tags, attempts, use of Latex etc. (I am not that old user though. But it was fine when I started.)
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