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    This other answer is good, but this IMHO is better: 1. an identifying subject actually helps, 2. if you do not tell them to, they won't. Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 19:02
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    +1 for the practical aspect: maybe this is slightly weird, maybe it isn't, depends on all parties involved. Is the OP entitled to think it is slightly weird? Sure. But the real question is: is it weird enough to intervene by making a course policy about it? If yes: okay, do it; students won't object. If no: let it go. Students -- and people in general -- can be very, very weird. This is small time stuff. Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 19:33
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    I'd expect all of this information to be part of the subject line and not the body (there's nothing in the OP that indicates that this isn't done). Adding stuff to the body just forces the recipient to skim quickly over it to make sure there's nothing of importance in it. Wasting everybody's time for no purpose isn't polite in my book. Keeping emails as short as possible (but not shorter!) is one of the core rules of email nettiquette. Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 20:11
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    Not having a subject does often put the email in your spam folder! Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 9:34
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    Even better a website that lets the student upload the assignment and sends them a confirmation email. Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 9:34