Course Publishing Policy

Once a course is published and learners begin enrolling, its structure can still be changed — major structural changes are rate-limited rather than permanently frozen.

To protect learner progress and keep grading and certification fair, the curriculum structure of a published course (adding, removing, reordering, or retyping modules and lessons) may be changed only once every 7 days.

One protection is absolute: once a learner has attempted a quiz or exam, its questions and scoring are locked so previously recorded scores and certificates stay valid. To revise a scored assessment, the instructor duplicates it and publishes a new version. Structural elements subject to the 7-day cooldown include:

• Adding, removing, or reordering modules and lessons
• Changing a lesson's type (video, text, and so on)
• Completion requirements

Minor content updates — clarifications, additional resources, captions, or replacing a video in an existing lesson — remain available at any time.

If significant structural changes are required after a course has been published and students are already enrolled, the platform may require the instructor to create a new course version rather than modifying the existing structure.

This approach preserves the learning experience of existing students while allowing instructors to improve their content.

Instructors may also unpublish a published course or event, returning it to draft. Unpublishing hides it from new learners while existing learners keep their access. To prevent disruptive churn, the published state can only change once every 7 days.

Instructors may apply for certification status where applicable. Certification may require verification of academic credentials, professional licenses, or performance metrics defined by the platform.

Certification status may affect instructor visibility but does not necessarily limit the ability to publish educational content.

The Experts platform may allow courses to issue certificates of completion to students who successfully complete course requirements.

Only instructors who have been verified under the platform's academic certification program may issue certificates representing professional or academic credentials.

Courses created by instructors who do not hold verified academic certification may still provide educational content but may not issue official certificates representing academic or professional qualifications.

The platform may instead provide a generic certificate of completion indicating that a student has completed the course content on the platform without implying professional or academic accreditation.

The platform reserves the right to review, approve, or revoke certificate issuance privileges where necessary to protect the integrity and credibility of certifications issued through the platform.

Any certificate associated with an event must match the actual attendance or completion criteria for that event and must not imply professional, academic, or regulatory accreditation unless authorized.