[danielnaab]

Sharing of previous semester code (or quizzes, exams, etc) should enhance the learning process, not hinder it.

This is a bad and lazy policy for a school. Instructors should be creating assignments that cover the same material but are sufficiently different from one semester to the next that cheating isn't a problem.

When I was in school 15+ years ago, we had officially sanctioned ways of sharing materials from previous semesters of coursework. Is that uncommon?