l don’t recommend this school

[freeloader]

Setting aside whether there was plagiarism or not, there is something else that feels odd about OP’s stated position:

A draft at UMPI, at least in the way I used them, was an attempt at the assignment. If it missed the mark, needed improvement in some area, or was totally off base, you get it sent back and have a second go at it. If the work was good enough, I, and I suspect most everybody who attends/attended UMPI was told “your work is good, this is a A paper, resubmit as your final assignment” or something like “this is a good paper and would pass with a B, feel free to submit it as your final assignment for a B or work on these areas to improve it to potentially earn a higher grade”.

In one class, the professor refused to look at an outline and insisted that I use the draft feature to have comments on my “raw” work, but I: 1) had already discussed with the professor and they knew what was coming in my draft submission and 2) I made it clear (by spelling it out) that I was submitting an outline, raw work, that it was missing citations, etc.

Maybe OP didn’t understand what drafts were, didn’t attempt to let the professor know what their draft entailed, etc, but I honestly find that pretty doubtful.  If OP had actually completed 10 courses at UMPI and had been told something along the lines of what I quoted above, it should have been perfectly obvious how the professor understood the draft process to work.   They clearly understand a draft to be the students’ original work, not just some “raw” material culled from internet sources, and that fact should have been clear to OP before this ever got to this point.