cs121-26wi Collaboration Policy

Relational Databases (Winter 2026)

You may use the following resources: Projects Exams
Course textbook (including answers in the back) YES NO
Course handouts YES NO
Other books YES NO
Your notes (taken in class) YES NO
Class notes of others, copied by hand or summarized YES NO
Direct copies (such as photocopies, pictures, scans, printouts) of class notes of others YES NO
Your returned assignments YES NO
Solutions to assignments / exams from previous years NO NO
Consult online resources such as Wikipedia YES NO
Consult existing material on online sources such as question/answer forums YES NO
Post questions about problems on online sources such as question/answer forums NO NO
For coding assignments, you may: Projects
Look at code written by other students in the class NO
Look at code found in online repositories, or written by former students in the class NO
Look at code written by anyone not in your group (including online resources or textbooks) NO
Help other students debug their code NO
Ask a non-student to help debug your code NO
Use an external library, as long as it does not provide a direct solution NO
Discuss high-level problems with others in small groups YES
Look at communal materials, such as a group discussion performed on a white board, while writing up your solution YES
Look at another student’s or group’s completed solution NO
Use any generative AI tools SOMETIMES1
  1. You MAY NOT use generative AI tools on the SQL assignment. You MAY use generative AI tools on the programming portion of NanoDB projects, but MAY NOT use generative AI on the design doc portion. ↩︎