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. The more people Course Hero and similar websites connect, the more students and faculty there could be learning, growing and sharing.
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. Like it or not, Course Hero and similar websites are probably here to stay.
To unblur Course Hero answers, you need to inspect the page, click on “Sources”, and open “split-0-page-1” in a new tab. After you’ve opened “split-0-page-1” in a new tab, remove “-html-bg” from the URL to unblur the top half of the answers.
When working in groups, students often share answers, methods, notes and their understanding—all things that would be shared on Course Hero. 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.
You can join a study group and meet students in your class you otherwise might not have worked with. 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.
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.
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.
Post only answers, and not questions, on CULearn for homework and tests—that way the answers won’t mean as much. 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.