HACKER Q&A
📣 calebjosue

Is it legal/ethical trying to replicate an Udacity's autograder?


Fellows,

One of the training courses I really enjoyed the most is one related to Mathematics, provided by Udacity some years ago.

I've noticed people are unable to enroll anymore to these courses, e.g. https://www.udacity.com/course/ma006

The training material is still available at YouTube (Published by Udacity): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAwxTw4SYaPlSLRIPSeloeFkkwEnnl6d4

In my opinion, receiving immediate feedback about how you did over an exercise/problem is of tremendous help while learning.

So I proposed myself to replicate the auto grader for the exercises related to the aforementioned Algebra course by means of a web application, embedding the video and showing the related questions, like it used to be when the course was alive. Still, I don't want to get into trouble, since I acknowledge the content is intellectual property.

Is it legal/ethical embarking in such a task?

Thanks!

-- Caleb

  👤 houseatrielah Accepted Answer ✓
Don't build a sandcastle that Udacity can knock over with a single legal challenge.
👤 mkl
It's probably copyright violation to copy their exercise sets (depends on the license and where they got them). There are existing maths quiz grading systems that could be used for similar purposes (based on your description; I haven't done that Udacity course), and I'd recommend STACK [1], a Moodle [2] plugin. Both are open source.

[1] https://stack-assessment.org/

[2] https://moodle.org/