What Nietzsche really meant in Thus Spoke Zarathustra is that we all just need to get along :)

In the Republic, it basically goes: aristocracy (of philosophers) -> aristocracy (of warriors) -> oligarchy -> democracy -> tyranny

Yeah, OP should take this as a opportunity to work on assignment design and course policies for the next time. There have been plenty of times where students did something that I viewed or suspected as dishonest but didn’t report them for it because I hadn’t designed my assignments well or didn’t have a clear policy against it.