I've just wasted an hour solving problems for a member of staff who should've been able to exercise a bit of personal initiative and sort it out herself: Our Faculty plagiarism procedures are a tad complex with reports being written & copied to half-a-dozen people for each and every student interviewed. Senior staff quite naturally felt (after the first 20 or-so) that admin people could easily do the typing & photocopying. Unfortunately writing to 15 students on my module has been delayed by lack of experience with the procedures (& a certain "it's not my job to work it out; I just type!" attitude) so I was keen to get the ball rolling after 2 weeks! As it happens they're all guilty (have admitted it) so I'm not stressed about the effects on them -- in fact, IMO, they get off very lightly with the minimum University penalty: "Get zero for plagiarised assignment, otherwise process module as normal." But I am keen to get the paperwork right to avoid having the assessment boards overrule the "guilty" verdict in June! Ah well, every day is a school day ... some days you learn new skills, others you learn things about yourself or others ;->
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