Academic Integrity

Real help, not cheating.

Instudy provides tutoring, feedback, and guidance on your own work — never finished work for you to submit as your own. That's not a limitation; it's the point.

01The line

Where genuine support ends and cheating begins

Genuine support is legal and is the only thing we match. Contract cheating — paying someone to produce work you submit as your own — is a criminal offence in England under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022. Instudy is built firmly on the right side of that line.

What we do

  • Tutoring and coaching to help you understand
  • Feedback and markup on a draft you wrote
  • Guidance on how to approach your own assignment

What we don't

  • Writing or completing work you'll submit as your own
  • Sitting tests, exams, or assessments for you
  • Anything designed to disguise cheating as help

02How we enforce it

The line is built into the product

This isn't just a policy — it's enforced in the flow.

Draft-required editorial

Editorial orders can't start without your own draft, so feedback is always on work you wrote.

Completion-request screening

Requests that ask for finished, submit-ready work are screened and blocked.

Dual attestations

Both student and tutor confirm, at order time, that this is genuine support on the student's own work.

On-platform audit trail

Because delivery stays on-platform, there's always a record that the help was legitimate.

Learn the way that lasts

Genuine support helps you actually learn — and keeps you on the right side of the rules.