Professors cannot see if you use Course Hero. This platform does not send word to your institution or professor that you have accessed and applied its learning materials. It is nearly impossible to track who uses the platform and who doesn’t.
In addition, it will even display the particular link/source that you copied from, which in this case is Course Hero. A teacher may also find out that you are using Course Hero when you upload your assignments or exam questions and their answers.
If someone just directly copies without understanding they won't pass the course exams anyway. Just to be clear for yourself and also for other students who may see this: Looking at Course Hero notes to get ideas from past students about what they understood from the course and their study/revision notes etc is not misconduct.
Course Hero and similar websites put everything on the table for everyone, leveling the playing field. By providing class notes, old exams and more, Course Hero gives students an additional chance to learn material that they didn’t understand the first time a professor taught it.
Most students do love Course Hero, but they tend to use it wrongly. Learn to use it well and you will not be in trouble. You can copy and paste directly from Course Hero. All you have to do is to highlight the content and copy it directly to your assignment.
The appropriate way to utilize Course Hero is to use the study tools in this forum to supplement the content you learn in class to better your understanding of the class or course you are taking.
Most online study resource platforms like Course Hero were created to assist students in getting a better and surplus understanding of what they learn in their respective schools.
When you create a private profile with Course Hero, you are given a chance to select a unique username and password. This selection enables you to upload documents and access others anonymously.
Course Hero has an honor code with its rules and regulations that depict what will happen to you if you misuse their site to commit misconduct.
The third party is the business partners that Course Hero works in collaboration with.
It will lead to plagiarism. Your professor will get hold of you for that malpractice, and you will face disciplinary action.
Course hero will not notify your school unless they are contacted directly by the school to offer information to help in an investigation.
In fact, professors do not like Course Hero and others because they are deemed to help students violate honor code policies. However, I do not think they do. To me, they just provide study tools and help.
Chegg and CouseHero do corporate with institutions to facilitate any information that compromises academic integrity.
Chegg does not notify your school because it has strict privacy policies and is guided by its commitment to protecting its users. The website will not snitch on you when you use it for homework or exam answers. However, that does not prevent your school from investigating the source of your answers if you violated the rules.
The best practice is for the student to use such platforms as study guides only. The student is free to use their content and digital textbooks to gain knowledge and not cheating.
You must be careful not to get in trouble for using Chegg because some of the answers are already submitted by other users. Copy-pasting the same answer may attract plagiarisms concerns leading to a penalty from your school. But can Chegg really snitch on you?
The professor may check your content with Turnitin or SafeAssign for any similarity. Such tools will scan the internet and different databases to detect any similarities. As such, the professor may know who got the solution from CourseHero or Chegg.
Chegg can see who viewed the question on its platform. Additionally, like any other website, Chegg may have mechanisms to collect the details of the device one uses, such as the IP address to access a specific question. However, they do not do anything much with such info.
Course Hero, being used by many students, makes it possible for many students to submit an identical paper. When instructors come across similar papers submitted by different students, they are likely to know that the papers have been obtained from a similar source.
Course Hero gives out correct answers because they involve tutors to provide solutions, especially for paid subscriptions. They have experienced tutors who answer all your questions correctly. However, some answers may be wrong since they are uploaded by students to get unlocks. This may compromise the quality of answers for other users.
Cheating is considered the use of any dishonest means to gain an advantage. Using Course Hero against the rules of the institution you study in is considered cheating. Institutions are different.
Students can use the content they get from Course Hero without cheating using the following ways: 1. Paraphrasing the answer. Paraphrasing involves using formulating an answer of your own. You will first read the answer provided on Course Hero, understand it, and try writing what you have understood on your own. 2.
When copying from Course Hero, you are also plagiarising. This is a form of academic dishonesty that can land you into trouble as well.
Course Hero is a very important feature in every student’s academic life. This is only if it is used for the right reasons.
If you copy answers word to word from Course Hero, you are likely to get into trouble. If your institution is against its use, then you have landed yourself into trouble if you are caught. such institutions have their reasons why they do not agree with the usage of such platforms.
You can choose to study through the internet, or meet at a physical table and chairs on campus. In this way, Course Hero allows you to make connections with others who you can help, and who can help you.
Conceived by students at Cornell, Course Hero provides access to old tests, homework problems, textbook answers and class notes. It also offers the ability to form study groups where you can share files and exchange ideas. It’s basically a forum where you can put up old schoolwork you’ve done and see the old schoolwork of your peers from your own school and around the nation.
One of the big problems with Course Hero is that if a student wants to cheat, the website offers all the tools they need to do so. It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class.
Try to give students a reason not to cheat by providing everything they need to perform successfully
Give students old tests to study from, so that there is no reason for them to search online. This could help to level the playing field for those who would have cheated and those who never would.
Course Hero isn’t really free. While you can create an account for no cost, you can’t view anything until you pay in one of two ways: By posting materials (40 documents = 1 month free) By paying a monthly, 6 month, or yearly fee.
You also can’t track who is using Course Hero. Often, notes are posted anonymously, so the individual who posted them cannot be tracked down. This means that it’s harder to punish those who are blatantly cheating or difficult to tell if the resources available can really be trusted.
Course Hero is intended as a supplemental study resource, and using this site in any other manner violates both Course Hero’s Terms of Use and Honor Code. It is the member's responsibility to understand the academic integrity requirements at their institution to ensure that using online study resources such as Course Hero does not violate their institution’s honor code. Examples of misuse include but are not limited to: 1 Copying and paste or use of content taken directly from Course Hero and submitting it as one’s own work 2 Uploading any contemporaneous recordings of a class or lecture given by an instructor 3 Using Course Hero study materials or tutors to complete tests or homework assignments when instructed not to use outside help 4 Using Course Hero in any manner that violates your instructor’s or institution's academic honor code
Course Hero is intended as a supplemental study resource , and using this site in any other manner violates both Course Hero’s Terms of Use and Honor Code. It is the member's responsibility to understand the academic integrity requirements at their institution to ensure that using online study resources such as Course Hero does not violate their ...
Using Course Hero study materials or tutors to complete tests or homework assignments when instructed not to use outside help. Using Course Hero in any manner that violates your instructor’s or institution's academic honor code. Using Course Hero for cheating or plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated.
Course Hero works by providing answers to student questions and homework tasks. They source the solutions by creating a database of answers sourced from its users, student papers and its own tutors. You must register for an account to access its materials.
You will also be caught because your school’s plagiarism scanner will detect such copy-pasting and you may fail the course. There are several ways can cause someone to believe that you are using Course Hero to cheat. For instance, it would be a falsehood to use Course Hero documents and pose them as yours.
Paraphrasing means you formulate the answers to appear unique and original. First off, you should read and understand the type of answer that Course Hero provided to you. Then try to write it in your own words without deviating from the meaning of the answer and stay on safe lanes.
If you discover that the tutors responded in a manner that agrees with your already given solutions, then you will know that you are doing the correct thing.
If you are an instructor or a professor, you can use CourseHero to get advice and inspiration from your counterparts teaching in other universities.
You can ask the questions and use the answers as inspiration to gain knowledge on how to deal with similar problems in your course.
Such resources offer you a wonderful insight concerning every course and how you can make future decisions about the same issues.