Students can use the forum as a reference was news to me today. I assumed this forum was available to educators as a place to share ideas. Found this by accident as I watched a student look up sample code on the forum without login.
Hi @mmathews,
Yes-much of the forum is open. The Teachers Lounge and Assessment discussions are open only to verified teachers since many solutions may be posted in those areas. The forum is also moderated so that lesson plans and teacher solutions are not posted in the open discussions. You may find posts where teachers requested help debugging and suggestions and solutions to the question may be posted but you should not find entire solutions to lessons posted. If you do, you can report them here.
I hope that helped clarify,
~Michelle