@accountability come now, of course you do know. administration from a professor in itself, by no means eliminates illicitness or justifies deliberate wrongdoing. students have a level of autonomy, intelligence, and by god, integrity, by which they are able to note when even a professor is out of bounds. there is a clearly discernible threshold, applicable in this instance, where routine, even if liberal, guidance, transfers to clearly unacceptable answer giving. i would hardly say a complete, nearly verbatim outline is on par with suggesting focus of l’Hospital’s rule. more appropriate would be an analogy of a professor providing each exact problem, with exact number values, for which l’Hospital’s rule was to be applied. indeed, this professor guilty did “go too far,” but sadly, the irresponsible students did not go far enough, and apparently had no inclination to do so.