A creative humanities teacher permits her students to submit final course projects using any media format selected by the students. Her guidelines include originality, applications of good research, author integrity, professional presentation.
Several students plan to include music in their media projects.
Group A prepares a PowerPoint slide show and runs the show in sync with the student's own CD player. They follow her rule for their project. Group A did not copy anything. They played their music from the original recording. Group C is following guidelines which have been practiced within acceptable guidelines for student projects for a number of years.