Some of the Open University courses have this approach too depending or not on whether they allow electronic assignment submission

'Tis true, but then they even refuse to support the Macintosh :( Although to be fair, the reason for doing this is so that they can mark it electronically. And it also means that you get extra time to do it, as you don't have to allow for the post :) And it was a god send on my Smalltalk course... :) -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)