[legion]

If it was a matter of getting their assignments and returning, I would have let them get them and turn them in. If it was a matter of needing any more time than that, I wouldn't have let it fly.

In the real world, people do sometimes forget things. Sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't. It's your class, so it's your rules and your call.

I did have one professor give me a 0 on the mid-term (30% of my grade) for showing up late. I had studied and was prepared, but I set my alarm for 6:00 p.m. instead of 6:00 a.m. I was getting a 100% up to that point. My grade ended up being a C (70%). It was the only C I ever got in college. At the end of college, I ended up being .01 of a grade point from graduating with honors...