What: Course Hero purports to provide jobs taking class notes and tutoring other students, but is described as villainous by both workers and clients
Expected pay: nominal
Husl $core: $
Where: National
Requirements:
- Be over the age of 18;
- have study notes to share or be capable of tutoring others in a college-level class
Course Hero Review:
Course Hero purports to be all about helping students get better grades by giving them access to course materials and tutors. However, both contributors/tutors and clients describe this company as villainous.
Clients maintain they get charged exorbitant fees for worthless information and can’t get the company to stop auto-charging their credit cards. Contributors and tutors maintain that the company inexplicably closes their accounts — absconding with their earnings — after they’ve spent hours doing the site’s bidding.
Rotten best-case scenario
Even in the best of cases, earnings are nothing to brag about. Tutors earn between $1 and $4 for answering student questions. If someone buys your notes, you’ll get between $5 and $20, according to a site representative.
We found complaints at the Better Business Bureau, InsideHigherEd, ScamBook, ComplaintsBoard and countless others. The complaints are pretty consistent. Our advice: No matter whether you’re a client or a contributor, steer clear.
Recommendations
If you want to get paid to take class notes, check out Nexus Notes or Study Soup. If you want to tutor, consider Varsity Tutors or Wyzant.
What their contributors/tutors say:
“I worked on this site as expert for 2 years or so. My experience has been very bad. They treat experts as puppets and remove experts as and when they desire. They will say that you have violated site policy. In this process, whatever balance you have in your account is taken away. This is like looting experts. Further, I had observed, many times, that only I had submitted the answer and my answer was correct. Still I was not paid. It means that company was eating money earned from students/customers. They don’t inform whether your answer has been accepted or not. Payment is very low. Initially, it is only 35% and gradually it is increased to 50%. If anybody wants to make career as expert, don’t depend on CourseHero.
“Course Hero steals from their tutors by closing their accounts. The accounts are closed taking with the accumulated tutors’ earnings.”
They steal from tutors
“The people at Course Hero suck your original works into their online database, use those works to entice poor students into a subscription and then kick the original user off the site as an “honor violator.” Pretty cheesy. I created an account and found my own content on the Course Hero site (my original essays, multi-choice answers, etc) with my page codes. All after my account was closed for “honor violation.” I suppose that’s one way to pad the database with fresh content.”
I worked as a tutor on CourseHero. Since my subjects are actually my passion, in a very short time I answered a lot of questions. All of a sudden an email came saying I received a violation. The reason they gave was totally a bu***it. Then my account was blocked. The system here is, students pay and post the question. When I answer the question, I get just 35% of what student paid after 14 days. For 14 days before my account got blocked I answered almost 150 questions for which I was about to get around $250. All that money they stole. Whatever be the fu***ng reason for deactivation, at least they should pay whatever earned before that point.”
“They stole all my hard earned money. I was a 5 stars rating tutor there, but when time came for withdrawing the fund, these bastards just removed my account…. scammers.”
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I have created a tutor account with course hero and earned nearly $100. At first i have withdrawn $24 but when the time came for the rest of the withdrawl they blocked me down with a reason that “honor code violation.” When i asked where i have done violation they just didn’t reply! These scammers took all i have earned by working at night. I would suggest you to not to go at course hero niether for tutoring nor for student help. There are many better sites available. Course hero will take work from you first and when the time comes up for payout they’ll block you out with a reason “honor code violation”,no matter how good you have performed on their platform. They’ll not even pay you a single penny for your work.
Really Sad. Please can you recommend credible sites I can register for student help. Thank you
Wyzant, TutorOcean, VarsityTutors….All are good companies that pay their tutors without excuses. You can find our full reviews by using the search function (click on the magnifying glass at the top right hand side of our page). Our you can click on the links in this review.
They have done same with me they blocked me from tutor account and even didn’t paid my 100$ already hard earned money . They are looting tutor money they will not give you your hardly earned money and will block you.
Please don’t trust course hero they are the biggest scammer in education industry.
Same case to me,, I had barely made through a week and due to the hard work I had put because I used to work 12hrs a day, I made $500 which all went with them after the first week,,I was not given any reason why they closed the account,, they just logged me out and the password was changed.🥺😭😭😭
Same with mine
I’ve heard Course Hero removing many tutors from their website. They don’t treat their experts as experts, they don’t know anything about courtesy. A friend of mine also worked as a tutor for Calculus on Course Hero. He was tutoring multiple students and had almost $500 in his account. Everything was going smooth, and one day he couldn’t login and his account was blocked. Could you believe that? Course Hero didn’t even give him his money back. They are just looting people and they should be sued.
As happened to me, when I was at my best in course hero, 5 stars, my account was blocked for violation of the code of honor.
Please could you help me or recommend a page similar to course that does not have to be offered and wait if the student chooses you. Because what I liked most about course hero is that the questions are being shown and one chooses if I answer it or not … is there a similar page there? Thank you
Course Hero is horrible. Students will accept my answers and thank me and I get no rewards for it. I am still unsure exactly how you get earnings. I answer questions and get notifications that students accept my answers all the time yet I get nothing.
Its hard to work with coursehero. I’ve lost a lot of money to coursehero as well. Which alternative tutor accounts do you know of please?
Coursehero scammed my hard earned $810. It is unexpected that after working for 26 days they sent me this message
“NOTICE: Your privileges have been revoked
You have been removed as a tutor from our platform. We only take this action when tutors have violate our platform policies.”
I am typing this comment while crying can anyone please help me, I’m in debt but course screwed me.
Here’s my email writerspro78@gmail.com
I can’t believe that coursehero is claiming that I fraudulently answered tutor questions.
Dear Tutor,
After further investigation, we have confirmed activity on your account that’s in violation of at least Section 2 and Section 3 of our Terms of Use.
This activity can include, but not limited to, the following:
Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Course Hero);
Violates any law or regulation;
Is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable
Jeopardizes the security of your Course Hero account or anyone else’s (such as allowing someone else to log on as you on the Services);
Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other User;
Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes;
Runs Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Services, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Services (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Services’ infrastructure);
“Crawls,” “scrapes,” or “spiders” any page, data or portion of or relating to the Services or Content (through use of manual or automated means);
Introduces any viruses, Trojan horses, or other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any part of the Services;
Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content;
Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services.
Therefore, pursuant to Section 2 and Section 4 of our Terms of Use and the tutor guidelines regarding fraudulent activity we have terminated your account and no further payment obligations are required.
This is a final decision and no further appeals will be made.
Regards,
Tutor Support Team
Exactly same happened to me, dude. I am also searching for a new platform. I get to know about “solutioninn”. Try this maybe this will be helpful to you. If you get any other then please share with me also.
Hello guys
Even the Same thing happened with me.And now I’m not able to login to my account. And I had earned $42 but now they revoked my account and there was not even a single violation. Even if I email them they r not giving me reply.
With soo much of efforts I had earned soo much.
That’s exactly what it is! A huge scam when all the flags and violations are raised only on the very day you are about to receive your payment.
They don’t have basic courtesy to reply emails.
They just flood you with mails of violation.
Even after citing the sources each time and having given so called 5-star rating and most of the answers in an attachment of hand written document, all they do is take away all your money leaving you with not even a single penny.
And especially at this time when they are just flooded with all sorts of new applications, they don’t provide much reasons and straightaway block your account so that they can do the same with new poor tutors!
Worst experience ever.
Don’t recommend anyone.
I worked for coursehero for sround 9 months. I was a health sciences tutor and I answered around 3k questions and helped around 6k students, I was a 5 star tutor. I earned around 7k dollars in all of those 9 months. The problem with coursehero is that some students don’t accept your answers even when they are OK, so you don’t get paid for some questions. As happened to most of you, I suddenly got my tutor account removed from the tutoring platform. I didn’t ask for a reason because of the reviews I read when I started working on it (that they don’t give you reasons), however I asked them about the money that was still pending and they told me that it would be paid and that I have some money pending up to a specific date and I have been checking my earnings on my coursehero account (I can still access it as a student account) and it is increasing, it means I will be able to get all the money for the questions I answered before being removed as a tutor.
Coursehero is a good platform to make money without doing live classes, however its big problem is that instead of motivating you to improve, they just try to scare you by saying you will be removed if you keep giving bad answers, even when those answers where correct. I think they should improve the work of moderators and appreciate the tutors job more, for example by removing me, lots of students won’t get their questions answered. Now I’m taking my high quality answers to another platform…one that actually appreciates what a tutor does. Anyway, Thanks Coursehero… my experience working for you will help me to grow as a tutor.
Hi, Bryan! May I ask what platform are you talking about at the last part of your comment? Currently, I am also working as a tutor in course hero. I haven’t been banned or removed yet because I have only working as a tutor for 7 days. However, based on the reviews I have been reading, I think I have to expect for the worst. I gotta earn while a pandemic is going on. Hence, if it’s okay, can you please suggest me tue platform you’re currently in right now? 🙂 Here’s my email! al3xcahill@gmail.com Thank you so much, Bryan!
What kind of platform do you use now? Your pending payments they give it to you as well as they removed you as a tutor?
apart from Course hero any other tutoring site…please
what platform that help you to earn money similar with course hero? Do you mind to share the information?.
Try Stuvia, StudySoup or NexxusNotes.
Hello, Byran. I would like to confirm whether Course Hero paid you the pending money after revoking your tutor’s privilege access to their site. Did they really release the funds to your account? My tutor account was closed due to invalid reasons(violation of Course Hero’s Terms) with substantial pending earnings. So i want to enquire from you if it is possible for Course Hero to release the funds to the tutors, especially those whose accounts were closed due to baseless reasons. How did you go about it. Your response will be highly regarded.
What other website did you mention please??
Hi. Were you paid the money you had earned before being removed?
Hi! May I ask if after you have received the violation, will they block right away your tutor account?
I received a violation notice from Course Hero stating:
You’ve received a violation for posting unnecessary or irrelevant comments. Please ensure that all comments and discussion in a question thread are related to the question. This helps ensure that future students can also effectively learn and study the solution you provide.
Our policies ensure that students have a great experience on our platform and we take our customer service very seriously. Tutors who violate our platform policies may be removed.
However, right now I can still access my account as a tutor.
I am afraid of the reviews that I have read. I still have pending earnings and I expect to withdraw those by the end of the month.
hi i was also given a probation for 2 weeks. have you withdrawn your pending earnings prior to your probation?
What happened after your probation period is over?? Are you able continue futher??
Does anyone know whether it is possible to be readmitted after being removed?
it is an awful platform for the tutors since they implemented the unhelpful option. Most of the students are grading the sessions as unhelpful, meaning the students get the answers for free. Also course hero keeps your work but the tutor is not paid. it is a good site if you want to work for free.
At what unhelpful rate do they block the account?
Mine was blocked at 65%.
Course hero are just a brood of vipers. They closed my account a day before my first withdrawal and siphoned my hard earned $500
course hero is a big scum, they have closed my two accounts now all without even making the first withdrawal, no valid reasons given. Please run away from this site, they are thieves!
Course Hero is a big scam. They blocked my account also my account with 96% rate and with over 300$ in it. Then even do not allow you to withdrawal your hard-earned cash. They even do not tell you the reason for blocking the account. They just tell you you went against the terms and you are left asking which term did you go against. I have about 15 friends who the same happened to them and their days of hard-working to help students went unrewarded. No one was allowed to withdraw their cash meaning that Coursehero just swallowed over 3,000$ of other people’s hard work. Avoid it like a plague. We even stopped applying for their account and no one in my region wants to hear about coursehero.
Hi Denis. Like you, I was also removed 3 months ago. I was not blocked, so I was still able to withdraw the remaining earnings I had. Initially, I was scared what if I could not withdraw the remaining payments after 14 days, but then when I hover around “My Rewards” and “Tutor earnings”, I could still check the withdrawal section. And when the time has come for me to withdraw my remaining $37, it was credited to my Paypal. I am now in solutionInn, however, it is difficult to get a client there because questions posted still have to undergo biddings.
Yes they are doing a big scam with tutor, I have done more then 309 questions and out of then 78 is 5 stars and 289 is selected but students but a student flagged my answer as there is a missing part in my answer and after that they just revoked my account by saying you have posted a plagrised content, I suggest to all never go for course hero tutor because you don’t know when they are going to revoked you. There is more then 1000 USD ( 75000+ INR) and they are also refusing to give it to me also they are doing fraud.
I ignored all the reviews from Internet saying same about course hero, but now this happens to me I realised thay are saying truth.
Now I am giving you advice before making this mistake and wasting your time, never go for course hero tutor. They aren’t going to pay a single penny.
And if you are going to ignore all this like me then welcome here you are also going to write the same review and answer for them.
COURSE HERO ARE VERY BIG SCAMMERS. They take your money after working for a long time and don’t even pay you for work done. DO NOT– I REPEAT DO NOT –APPLY AS A COURSE HERO TUTOR. THEY ARE VULTURES HENCE WRITING THIS STATEMENT IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
I agree on every comment I read. As I too experience it also, I have few answers which was not paid thought it doesn’t have any rating from student. Also, My pending balance or withdrawal is about $100+, and seems their process in sending the code when I request for withdrawal doesn’t function anymore. It doesn’t send a confirmation code at all. I reported this to the support department, but it was not resolved. And nobody sent me a response.
Furthermore, their agents just give you warning on questions with helpful rate from students. They will give you warning for incomplete answers though you’re answers are complete and correct as to students response and rating. Sucks right?
Course hero is a scummer.They blocked my accounts with over $ 5000.
Hello Reynaldo,
I am sorry to hear about that. My tutor account was also permanently disabled for no valid reason at all. The tutor support team closed the account with substantial balance in it. I sent them many emails to appeal for the wrongful deactivation of the account, but the tutor support has not replied to any of them. What nationality is your tutor profile? Do you know any relevant legal agency affected tutors can consult to get the necessary assistance?
Best regards,
Hussein