[kwantam]

I completely understand your position, and I'm certainly sympathetic that it's often hard to find good instructional materials. I'll readily admit, however, that I do not know Chegg as anything but a way to cheat. It is well known among the university-level educators I've spoken with (across several institutions) as the place that students go to find material for cheating.

So while it may not be the case that all users of Chegg are cheating, at some schools essentially all cheaters are using Chegg, including to cheat on exams (students post course bibles, test banks, etc.).

It doesn't help that Chegg is slow to take down materials even when explicitly told that the material was obtained illegitimately (which makes sense---empirically, illicit materials are the draw for at least some segment of their customers). I know several folks who have had to involve their university's legal team to get their course materials removed from the site.

[s3p]

Interesting position, but, in my experience, it's been exactly the opposite. Our university works with Chegg to post false answers to questions in attempts to get students to stop using it for homework. They also look for course content posted on the site during exam weeks for the prerequisite math and science classes, and many students have been caught cheating because they posted a test question on Chegg.

Maybe you didn't have such an experience, but that doesn't mean it's a paradise for cheaters. I used it for help solving textbook problems and occasionally for homework. For how much it costs, it was a supreme waste of money.

[kolbe]

> Our university works with Chegg to post false answers to questions in attempts to get students to stop using it for homework

Shouldn't the fact that your university has to put effort into thwarting cheating on Chegg be evidence that cheating is a problem at your school?