Thoughts on Community's Homework Policy?

[nick]

I generally like the draft. While it leans towards impersonal, it may also help to have a template helping guide students towards asking for help productively. It could include:

• A link to any policy that comes out of this.
• A homework-oriented reprex tutorial would be great. It would help guide students on focusing their question on a specific section of a question. In other words, if it's a 6 part question, asking for help on part (e) shouldn't include your code for parts (a)-(d).
• While I know that there's a lot of homework that uses standard R/R package data sets, for those that are using their own data, instructions on using dput or what standard data sets might be analogues to their data would help.
• A few links to previous solid answers for very generic homework questions, such as @jessemaegan's great response from last week:

Please help me with my school assignment

You mentioned that you have no clue about using the software - it can definitely be overwhelming! If you could give some background on where you’re stuck, that would be a big help. For example: have you been able to install R and RStudio and get them working properly? what information have you covered in class? where in that material could you use some clarification? are you able to load the diamonds dataset? what have you tried so far? One of the great things about this site is that you can share the code that you’ve tried. There are easy ways to do this, using something called a reprex - anyone on this site would be happy to help you with the process of creating a reprex!