[2] The crowdsourced learning platform contains practice problems, study guides, infographics, class notes, step-by-step explanations, essays, lab reports, videos, user-submitted questions paired with answers from tutors, and original materials created and uploaded by educators.

[3] Course Hero was founded by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University in 2006 for college students to share lectures, class notes, exams and assignments.

The Series B round was led by NewView Capital, whose founder and managing partner, Ravi Viswanathan, joined Course Hero's board of directors.

[10] The documents uploaded for sale are frequently the intellectual property of faculty members, not of the students who post them/sell them.

The tool automatically partially populates take-down request documents, to aid university staff in asking Course Hero to remove their own work from the web site.

[17] Student papers uploaded to Course Hero sometimes contain personal or sensitive information, which might then be shared with other users of the site.