Chegg Study

Chegg Study is an online study resource that primarily is designed to provided homework help to college students and advanced high school students. For $14.95 a month, a student can access step-by-step solutions to every problem in over 22,000 ISBNs. Most of the textbooks with step-by-step solutions are commonly used for introductory college courses, the courses that are often referred to as "weed-out classes". The $14.95 per month subscription also includes 30 minutes with an online tutor per month. The online tutoring is done though Chegg Tutors, which I used to tutor on and previously blogged about.

While I believe Chegg Tutors is a useful learning tool as it allows 24/7 access to a knowledgeable tutor who can explain material and coach students to the correct answer, I feel its companion, Chegg Study’s step-by-step solutions just give students answers without truly explaining the material. A student could copy all of the answers to their homework without really learning anything and would see negative results at test time as a result. For this reason, I do not recommend students use Chegg Study. I also recommend teachers and professors make an effort to create their own homework problems instead of assigning problems out of textbooks because very often the solutions to textbook problems can be found online.