Whereas I generally do accept an assignment that is a day or two late, I unfortunately cannot accept one that is submitted after the solution was made available. It requires me to make a decision if someone had access to the solution, but flavoured it to hide the fact that they had access to it. It is also unfair to students who submitted in time.
I appreciate students working ahead and submitting assignments early, but if it is possible, may I ask that you do not submit them too early before the due date - the reason that we are required to mark assignments within a timeperiod of having received them. I personally prefer to mark in batches, since it allows me to really focus on the task at hand. It also complicates distribution to, and takes away time from, our dedicated external markers, who really take their time marking your assignments.They are thorough! This is not to say that early assignments are not marked fairly - it just makes it a bit easier on us