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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm currently doing an online Master's with Northeastern. Honestly not surprised this happened, the quality of classes is WILD.

Taking 2 classes per term, and each term so far 1 class has been very well designed but also insanely easy, while the other has been so poorly implemented that the course learning materials don't actually help you do the coursework.

Probably most astonishing so far though is a course I'm taking now just served me with the literally exact same assignment that I did for a course I just finished. Now, granted that both classes are from the elective course choices, so not everyone will take both, but come on... and they grill me about plagiarism with every submission I make...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I reuse assignments between similar classes, because maybe those classes share a learning objective and that assignment is just gangbusters.

In cases where students take both (which, we actively discourage because of the similarity of courses), I have my team require the students, for example, use a different person as their subjects for the two assignments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

This assignment is literally a fill in the blanks to complete a set of code to make it produce values expected by the assignment.