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Originally Posted by Starson17
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Well, it depended on the situation, the question, and the student, but yes, I did sometimes give credit in situations like this. My upper-division classes were reasonably small (10 to 20 people), so I could know the students well enough to tell if someone was jerking my chain or really had no clue.
I had a situation once where I demonstrated that 3 students plagiarized the final project of a fourth. I wrote individual final exams, where for the three students the first question (10% of the exam) was 'explain in detail why your code is identical to XXX's'. Two answered 'because I copied it', and I gave the the exam points. They failed the project, though. The third failed both. Several students told me that I had a reputation for very hard grading, but fair.