What: Course Hero purports to provide jobs taking class notes and tutoring other students, but is described as villanous by both workers and clients
Course Hero’s program account number is SSU-R010545446. 24/7 Homework Help Fees, Questions, and Unlocks. To honor the time tutors spend helping you, your payment is automatically completed when an answer is posted or emailed to you. Upon payment for an answer, you have no right to a refund.
Request that students tell you if they find your information online. Share with students that posting information online may result in harder tests, at the detriment of an instructor’s time and a student’s grade. If the goal is to have students learn the subject, and looking at Course Hero helps, maybe it’s not such a bad thing after all?
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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.