Let’s keep students
honest together
Honor Shield™ is a free answer-blocking tool that helps college educators ensure academic integrity when giving an online exam.
Why use Honor Shield™?
Take control
With this free answer-blocking tool, taking control is easy and free. Simply upload your exam, set the time frame, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Ensure academic integrity
Honor Shield™ can be used to help protect your exam or quiz. Students will not be permitted to access answers to exam questions during exam time.1
Partner with Chegg
Let’s work together to support students. We’re committed to helping students navigate the changing world of higher education, technology, and learning.
Feel confident that your tests are safeguarded.
With Honor Shield™, you can block students from searching exam questions on our website during the exam.1
How it works
“Honor Shield is great! Academic integrity is an issue and I appreciate what Chegg is doing for students and educators.”
-Business/Economics Professor,
University of California, Irvine
Here’s how we’ll inform students
During exam time, students will get a warning whenever they look for answers to your exam questions on Chegg.1
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FAQs
Honor Shield is completely free and available to use by faculty in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.
Verification takes about 5 days. If we are able to verify you are a faculty member at the associated university, we should be able to grant you access to upload exams. If we are unable to verify that you are a member of the faculty at the associated university, we cannot grant access.
You can edit your exam by hovering over the exam and clicking the pencil icon. If it is in the “Received” status, you can make any changes to the exam including uploading a new file. Once it has moved to the Processing status, within 48 hours of your exam time, you’ll be able to edit only the title of the exam, postpone the exam or cancel it. You won’t be able to edit the questions or upload a new file.
The exam content is deleted from our system on a monthly basis. We use the questions only to block answers while the exam is taking place.