It is highly necessary that Thkee must meet the minimum standards for approval in order to deliver a consistent student experience. The Quality Review Team will help you get your course approved when you submit your course for review. We reserve the right to re-review the courses if instructors violate these standards at any point in time.
What is valuable educational content?
Since Thkee is a global marketplace for educational content, then your course materials should be designed with student learning in mind, and not for personal promotion.
The course material is the actual content of the course and includes the following:
- Section/Lecture titles
- Videos or Other Lecture Types
- Resources
- Quizzes
The course needs to meet our detailed list of quality review guidelines in order to be available in the marketplace. If we find that a course in the marketplace does not meet our quality review guidelines, we reserve the right to re-review the course.
You may add multiple instructors to a course when they help create, develop, teach, or manage the course. It is not an option that should be used simply to augment marketing capabilities and reach more students. For detailed guidelines on when to add other instructors to your course, click here.
Detailed Course Material Guidelines
The course materials are designed to support each student’s learning in a safe environment. These materials should not be used by instructors for marketing or selling to students in any manner. However, if this happens, it results in students feeling distrustful because they are being sold to when they want to learn. Ensure to click here. to learn how to create a great course.
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The course material needs to meet our quality review guidelines and may only include information relevant to your course topic.
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Courses should not contain content that is duplicated in other courses published on the marketplace. Any overlap in content across your courses must remain minimal.
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You may include your website, social media profiles, or contact information as a small watermark on your video throughout the lecture or briefly at the beginning or end of a lecture. Learn more about the specifics in this article.
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You may not include links to paid content off Thkee. The only exception is you are providing access to a tool or a product that is part of the Course Requirements, which is stated in the Course Landing Page.
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You may not post personal information about students.
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You may not include affiliate links.
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You may not include coupon codes, links or promotional references to any Thkee courses.
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When adding an external link to your course that requests students to pay or provide personal information, please use the following guidelines to decide where you can include the link.
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Example: |
A link to your book on Amazon for $10. |
A link to a free tool that students can use throughout the course to try out what they've learned. |
A link to your newsletter |
A link to Wikipedia |
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Does the link encourage students to buy something? |
Yes, and it's not part of the Course Requirements |
No |
No |
No |
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Does the link require students to provide personal information? |
Doesn't matter |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Is the content within the link relevant to the course, and does it help students get more out of the course? |
Doesn't matter |
Yes, I refer to it in other parts of the course, and it helps students get more out of the course, even thought it isn't required for students |
No, but it helps students continue their learning |
No, but it helps students continue their learning |
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Can you include it in the course? |
This link is only allowed in the bonus lecture |
This link is allowed within the course, but you need to go make it clear in the course landing page that this tool is closely related to the course material, and students will need to sign up to access it. |
This link is only allowed in the bonus lecture |
This link is allowed within the course |
We will take context into account when it comes to deciding whether the link is relevant to the course or not. Moreso, this is where the spirit of the policy matters, so unless you can prove to our team tht this material provides value to your students within the course, please ensure not to include it!
It will be considered a violation of our policies once an instructor is clearly going against the spirit of Thkee policies in an attempt to game the system or if we see a severe negative impact on the student experience, such as high unsubscribe rates or high refund rates.
Course Price Guidelines
Information and guidelines for pricing your course can be read here.
Escalation Policy
Learn what happens when there is a violation of our policies here.