Office hours attendance and Piazza posting declined over prior semesters and rose in Fall 2025 when LLMs and retakes were allowed¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-18 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Course records showed a steep decline in Piazza posting in Fall 2024 and office hours usage in Spring 2025, followed by a rise in Fall 2025, and office hours use increased slightly during the DURA semester. → Margaret Ellis 2026

Evidence¶

Margaret Ellis 2026¶

Margaret Ellis, Nikitha Donekal Chandrashekar, Sehrish Basir Nizamani, Mohammed Farghally, Jake O'Brien, and Naren Ramakrishnan. (2026). Demystify, Use, Reflect, Assess (DURA): An Experience Report on LLM Integration in CS2. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30908 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.30908

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Descriptive analysis of help-seeking rates by semester (Table 3: e.g., 834 Piazza posts in Spring 2023 falling to 334 by Spring 2025; office hours interactions 2672 in Spring 2024, 1151 in Spring 2025, 1350 in Fall 2025), plotted per-student in Figure 2. No inferential test printed.

"notice in Figure 2 that there was steep decline in Piazza posting in 2024 Fall and office hours usage in 2025 Spring and then a rise in Fall 2025 when LLMs and retakes were allowed."

Discussion¶

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