[Piece of Cake]

You should give all your students a pre-test - make it tough - but if they pass give them the damn A regardless of what they do. College diplomas prove you know something not that you did X amount of busy work. Assignments should be to facilitate learning not to keep your students busy. If your best student already knows the material - don't waste their time reproving it over and over again just so they can get you to sign off on having learned it.

That said - I don't condone cheating, but there's an economics to it - just as is with speeding tickets. Is the time saved worth the amount of trouble for getting caught * times the probability of getting caught?

Oh yeah and this thread is worthless w/o pics ldo.