Fully agreed with @davidism on all points; he put it much more concisely and clearly than I.
I’ve mod-messaged a few of the most recent posters asking if they can help us get in touch with their instructor to open a channel of communication, clear things up and potentially share the community’s feedback and advice on this—there’s been some great suggestions already, of course.
To determine next steps, I’ve opened a poll (in a separate thread, for visibility):
Curiously, I noticed one of the St. Leo students, in their first and so far only post after their welcome, posted the following short description of the waterfall development model as a separate thread in the Welcome to Discourse! section, which clearly doesn’t make sense on here, was reported as spam and which I removed:
I’ve messaged them letting them know why, and asked them if they could explain why they did so—perhaps it was some sort of assignment, even? If anything relevant comes up that I can share, I’ll let you all know.
Between @davidism 's ever-vigilant eye and my daily patrols (and I can first-post-sub to the category), pretty sure we can catch this quickly enough (particularly as there isn’t that strong of a time pressure), but I suppose you could just flag it as “Other” (if we decide to do this)?