In the spring of 2020, universities across America, and the world, abruptly transitioned to online learning. The online transition
required faculty to find novel ways to administer assessments and in some cases, for students to utilize novel ways of cheating
in their classes.
The purpose of this talk is to provide a retrospective on cheating during online exams in the spring of 2020. It specifically looks
at honor code violations in a sophomore level engineering course that enrolled more than 200 students. In this particular
course, four pre-COVID assessments were given in class and six during-COVID assessments were given online. We will examine
the increasing rate of cheating on these assessments and the profiles of the students who were engaged in cheating. We will
compare students who were engaged in violations of the honor code by uploading exam questions vs. those who those who
looked at solutions to uploaded questions.
To understand the abuse of Chegg during exams and the responsiveness of Chegg’s honor code team, we’ll be answering the
following questions:

• How long does it take for a posted question to be answered by the Chegg tutors?
• How do I know if my students are using Chegg to cheat?
• How effective is Chegg’s user account data in pursuing academic integrity cases?
• How do I get this data from Chegg?