Guidelines

What's allowed on ASHE, and what's planned for later.

How ASHE works

ASHE hosts material its members upload — we don't curate, license, or scrape content from elsewhere. That means the responsibility for what you upload being yours to share starts with you.

Allowed now

• Your own class notes
• Study guides you created
• Course syllabi

"Your own" means your own original work — written in your own words, based on a lecture or reading. Don't upload material that reproduces, in whole or substantial part, someone else's copyrighted work — a professor's slides, a textbook, or another student's notes — without their permission.

Notes written on slides

If you take notes on top of your professor's slides (in GoodNotes, Notability, or on a printout), the slides are still your professor's work. Don't upload those pages unless your professor has said it's OK. Upload the pages that are only your own writing instead.

Academic integrity

ASHE is for sharing notes that help people learn, not for doing someone else's work. Sharing your own lecture notes and study guides is what ASHE is for. Never upload:

• graded work, like homework, problem sets, papers, or lab reports, whether they're yours or someone else's
• answers or solutions to current assignments, quizzes, or exams
• anything from a class whose syllabus or professor says course materials can't be shared

If you're not sure, check your syllabus or ask your professor before you upload.

You're still bound by Tulane's Code of Academic Conduct. That Code is the rule that counts; ASHE isn't part of Tulane and can't speak for the Honor Board.

"What this course is like" notes

If you've taken a class, you can leave one short note on its page about what it's like. Keep it about the course: workload, format, how the class is run, and what helped you. Don't include:

• personal comments or rumors about a professor, TA, or classmate
• questions or answers from exams, quizzes, or assignments
• anything you haven't experienced yourself

Your first name is shown with your note. The ASHE team removes notes that break these rules.

Every upload

By uploading, you represent that this is your own original work or that you otherwise have the right to share it, and that it does not infringe anyone else's copyright.

Enforcement

• ASHE will remove content that violates these Guidelines on notice, including copyright claims from the original rights holder.
• Repeated or clear violations — uploading someone else's copyrighted material, uploading a live/in-use exam — are grounds for content removal and/or account suspension.

Report a problem

If a note on ASHE copies your work, or breaks these Guidelines, email ashe2625@gmail.com with the link to the note. The ASHE team will look at it and take it down if it breaks the rules.

The ASHE team wrote these Guidelines for our pilot at Tulane. They haven't been reviewed by a lawyer yet. If they change, we'll update this page. See also Terms & Privacy.