defending people who use course hero

What is Course Hero’s policy on misusing Course Hero?

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. Anyone who misuses Course Hero to submit another member's content as their own or gain an unfair advantage during testing may be permanently banned.

Is Course Hero a reliable source?

By putting coursework online, Course Hero is hoping to allow students (and faculty) everywhere to become involved in spreading learning and information. And that’s not all… If Course Hero is news to you, you probably aren’t aware of the many sites similar to Course Hero, including studyblue.com, cramster.com, koofers.com, and gradeguru.com.

Does Course Hero respect the rights of content creators?

Dec 11, 2019 · Course Hero is legit! We know the Internet can be a sketchy place, so here’s some info about the company behind the website. Course Hero is a mission-driven edtech company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Since its inception in 2006, the company has built a community of over 1 million paid users and more than 20,000 educators who ...

What resources does Course Hero have for educators?

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It is Course Hero’s policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. In accordance with the DMCA, Course Hero has adopted a policy toward copyright infringement. Please review the DMCA notification requirements, including information that should be present in these notices pursuant to Section 512 (c) (3) of the Digital ...

Can you track who is using Course Hero?

It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class. 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.

Is Course Hero free?

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.

What is a course hero?

Course Hero hosts a nationwide, professional network of verified college instructors who share lecture slides, syllabi, and lesson plans. To encourage a sense of community among educators, Course Hero holds an annual Education Summit in July to connect educators to one another, to the larger teaching and learning community, ...

Is Course Hero legit?

Course Hero is legit! We know the Internet can be a sketchy place, so here’s some info about the company behind the website. Course Hero is a mission-driven edtech company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Since its inception in 2006, the company has built a community of over 1 million paid users and more than 20,000 educators who ...

Where is Course Hero located?

Course Hero is a mission-driven edtech company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Since its inception in 2006, the company has built a community of over 1 million paid users and more than 20,000 educators who contribute to the site. In fact, one in 20 college students uses Course Hero. Heck, we are even verified on Instagram, which you can ...

Is SciHub a good thing or a bad thing?

It's blocked at my university and I was just wondering what the general consensus is about this website. Happy Saturday.

People without surnames, what do you publish as?

Just curious. I don’t have a surname; my name is in the form [given name] [child of] [father’s name], and I publish as [given name] [father’s name]. What do other people do?

How important are journal publications, really?

Disclaimer: not trying to come across as arrogant or entitled, just trying to work out where I'm going wrong.

Is Stealing Ideas Common in Academia? Should I be Worried About Potential Theft?

I am attending my first conference this week, and yesterday I attended a poster session and stopped by one that belonged to an RA of a lab quite similar to mine. I was pretty excited to meet someone that's more of a "colleague" to me, since most attendees are professors/postdocs/PhD students and I was quite overwhelmed.

Depressed over mistakes in master's thesis

So this week I successfully completed my master's thesis and I'm preparing myself for the defence that scheduled to take place in a couple of days. I was going over my paper and I noticed two mistakes re the interpretation of a the P-value under a null hypothesis in my paper.

How on earth do you write a PhD research proposal? (Humanities)

I apologise for the melodrama - but I literally have no idea. Currently, I'm trying to put together an 1000-word proposal to apply for grad school, stating the research aims, significance, structure etc. for my prospective PhD. On the face of it, this shouldn't be too hard. And I've done well in research tasks before. But I am struggling.

How much choice do you have in where your job is as a professor?

Hello everyone! I'm a current undergraduate student studying physics and math, but planning to continue into grad school by studying atmospheric science. I'm strongly considering a career in academia as I believe I would love the balance between performing research and teaching students.

Me and my friend did a project as a team. He now wants to write my half of the project in his master's thesis as well. Should I allow him to?

Me and my friend did a project as a team. He now wants to write my half of the project in his master's thesis as well. Should I allow him to?

I'm a miserable and inadequate PhD student, should I drop out?

So, I'm at the end of my second year in a nationally-ranked Microbiology program (USA). I got a conditional pass on my qual last month, and my revisions are due in a couple days and I really have doubts about whether they will be accepted by my committee.

Help! How do I survive a PhD with chronic fatigue??

So to give you some context: I've been living with anxiety and mild depression for more than 10ish years.

Dealing with feedback on paper drafts

Every time I get comments on a paper draft from collaborators, I feel nauseated. The comments have never been harsh, yet I always feel like they'll see whatever issues the paper has as evidence that I'm an idiot. As a result, it takes me longer to edit papers, because I get so anxious when reading their comments.

Going back to industry...already feel the stress

So, im finishing off my PhD. I'm leaving towards going back to industry simply because I hate the toxic side of academia/ felt extremely unappreciated by my new PI.

Example Tenure Letter of Rec from a Student Perspective?

I was asked by a former professor to write a letter of rec for his promotion to tenure track/associate professor.