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Get the students to submit coursework online via a portal/VLE and use TurnitinUK to check for plagiarism. Get the teaching staff to use 'Tablet' PCs (or maybe the new Apple I-Pad!) to mark it online. Bingo! The paperless University is on its way ... Half a dozen Amazonian rainforests saved every year and an administrative nightmare avoided! Obviously life's not as simple as that in the real world and these things don't happen overnight, but it must be the way to go, surely? Mike Milne-Picken Academic Registrar Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD T (44) 0161 907 5331 F (44) 0161 273 8188 E [log in to unmask] www.rncm.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: Admin-student [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beryl Pluples Sent: 27 January 2010 15:05 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Essay submission Undergraduate students within the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford currently hand in 3 copies of their submission in years 2 and 3, and 2 copies in year l. As you can imagine the School Office is inundated with essays which have to be receipted, checked against a submission due listing, separated so that module convenors receive two copies (one of which is returned to the student and the other kept for sending to the external examiner) and one copy is kept for audit purposes. We currently feel that we are drowning in paperwork and need to look at the way we process student submissions and would welcome any suggestions and processes which similar organisations could offer.