If you have been struggling with students continuing to submit documents that are blank due to their inability to determine which document they actually wrote on, this may be your solution. By sharing your hyperlink in a "force copy" condition students will be forced to make their copy initially and then place it into the proper folder for later retrieval. Thanks to a discussion with Duke Lines I learned how to pull this off. After posting your hyperlink you can go into the URL for that document and replace the term "edit" with "copy." This does not change the "sharing" permissions in the original document it only changes the order to make a copy without sharing the blank document. For this reason the document hyperlink URL has to be posted somewhere first before you change it to "copy."
Google Drive Forced Copy
Forced Copy Part 2
