Cramster: An Online Study Community
Cramster aims to help students understand their homework and do better on their tests by providing several resources online:
- Textbook Solutions
- Topic Notes
- Sample Problems
- Practice Exams
These resources find their way to the web in three ways: they are created by Cramster itself, indexed from the web, or contributed by their members. Cramster is similar to sites like CourseHero, which offers almost all of the same benefits.
Course Hero boasts class- and school-specific resources, but Cramster works differently. Instead of searching for your professor’s full name and finding information about your actual classes, Cramster only allows you to search topics—like Physics, Psychology, etc—and find resources that way.
Cramster tries to dissuade cheating on their Anti-Cheating Policy webpage:
“Cramster.com will take swift action against anyone found misusing the community’s site. In addition to refunding any membership fee, we will ban users who cheat from the site permanently.”
Cramster puts the responsibility to act ethically in the user’s hands, stressing the importance of using Cramster with the intention to learn. They tell users to follow their University’s or professor’s anti-cheating policies to determine what would or wouldn’t be an ethical use of Cramster.
If you want to see what kind of information Cramster has up, you’ll need to become a member. It costs $9.95/month and $49.95/year to have access to all of Cramster’s archives. As a free member, you have limited access. You’ll be able to see step by step solutions to all odd textbook problems that they have access to, resource materials like lecture notes and practice exams and have limited use of the Q&A boards.
Written By: Kate Vander Wiede, CU ‘09, ASSETT Staff