Understanding Academic Integrity

Course-sharing sites incentivize students with free access or reward to share content such as exam answers that earn downloads or "likes"

Some of these sites claim to provide peer tutoring, homework help, and test preparation guides, but they are not legitimate sources of help. 

Discover more below about how course-sharing sites may enable cheating and plagiarism. 

When it comes to sharing course materials on Course Hero and other course-sharing sites such as OneClass or StuDoc, don't do it:

1. It is unethical to share course materials without permission of your professors. If these materials enable other students to cheat and/or plagiarize, it is a breach of Sheridan's Academic Integrity Policy. 
2. It is a breach of Sheridan's Academic Integrity Policy to access prior exam materials and re-use submitted assignments from other students. 
3. Course materials on SLATE are copyright protected and should only be used for your own study. You cannot re-share these materials on the Internet or with other people without permission. 

In addition to breaching the values of academic integrity and copyright infringement, students may not be aware that some of the materials posted are outdated or have inaccurate information that they should not rely on for their studies. 

Many professors at Sheridan have requested the removal of their materials from course-sharing websites. Under copyright law, these websites are legally obligated to a send a warning or copyright notice to students who upload infringing content and to keep information of these users for their records.