Moroten, The reason that you have to give such students an "F" and a severe lecture is simple. If they think that you, the instructor, are that stupid, they'll also believe that their clients won't notice, either. Whether such a person ever learns courtesy, honesty, and ethics is perhaps beyond the confines of the class syllabus. I'm currently taking a PhotoShop7 where we are expected to pull images from various sources and manipulate them >>>as part of the learning experience<<< and the very first lecture concerned plagiarism and what we could not do and why and how to get permissions and copyrights... but a single lecture wouldn't teach honesty to a thief. Hmmm... if your school allows a person with an F grade to repeat a class and remove the earlier failing mark, you might want to give her a D so that it remains as part of her permanent record? In any case, she can't be allowed to claim the work of others as her own. Carolly