Chegg

In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them ...

Murdoch also believes the software is a gross invasion of privacy. "I'm competing against domestic students which, in most cases, employers prefer. "[Our services] are for students who historically have been ignored, under served, they're predominantly women, they over-index people of colour, they over-index people living pay cheque to pay cheque. But there's little research to show whether these types of software effectively detect cheating. This year, Chegg is expecting to rake in $1.1 billion in revenue — nearly double what it was bringing in before the pandemic. One 2020 study found that half of all Australian universities used some form of surveillance during exams. Their behaviour is monitored for any unusual activity. The student is stumped. He works the overnight shift at a fast-food shop. "If I want to find an answer to a question … I just search for it in the textbook and it comes up word for word — we don't constitute that as cheating." But instead of guessing, they take a screenshot of the question and upload it to a "homework help" website. "You have to perform, you have to hustle and you have to not let people down."