Instructor Terms

These Instructor Terms were last updated November 21, 2024.

When you sign up to become an instructor on the Courseopia platform, you agree to abide by these Instructor Terms (“Terms“). These Terms cover details about the aspects of the Courseopia platform relevant to instructors and are incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use, the general terms that govern your use of our Services. Any capitalized terms that aren’t defined in these Terms are defined as specified in the Terms of Use.

As an instructor, you are contracting directly with Courseopia, Inc. (a Delaware corporation in the United States), regardless of whether another Courseopia subsidiary facilitates payments to you.

1. Instructor Obligations

As an instructor, you are responsible for all content that you post, including lectures, quizzes, coding exercises, practice tests, assignments, resources, answers, course landing page content, labs, assessments, and announcements (“Submitted Content“).

You represent and warrant that:

you will provide and maintain accurate account information;
you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, permissions, and authority to authorize Courseopia to use your Submitted Content as specified in these Terms and the Terms of Use;
your Submitted Content will not infringe or misappropriate any third party’s intellectual property rights;
you have the required qualifications, credentials, and expertise (including education, training, knowledge, and skill sets) to teach and offer the services that you offer through your Submitted Content and use of the Services; and
you will ensure a quality of service that corresponds with the standards of your industry and instruction services in general.

You warrant that you will not:

post or provide any inappropriate, offensive, racist, hateful, sexist, pornographic, false, misleading, incorrect, infringing, defamatory or libelous content or information;
post or transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, or any other form of solicitation (commercial or otherwise) through the Services or to any user;
use the Services for business other than providing tutoring, teaching, and instructional services to students;
engage in any activity that would require us to obtain licenses from or pay royalties to any third party, including the need to pay royalties for the public performance of a musical work or sound recording;
frame or embed the Services (such as to embed a free version of a course) or otherwise circumvent the Services;
impersonate another person or gain unauthorized access to another person’s account;
interfere with or otherwise prevent other instructors from providing their services or content; or
abuse Courseopia resources, including support services.

2. License to Courseopia

You grant Courseopia the rights detailed in the Terms of Use to offer, market, and otherwise exploit your Submitted Content. This includes the right to add captions or otherwise modify Submitted Content to ensure accessibility. You also authorize Courseopia to sublicense these rights to your Submitted Content to third parties, including to students directly and through third parties such as resellers, distributors, affiliate sites, deal sites, and paid advertising on third-party platforms. The rights granted in the Terms of Use also include Courseopia’s right to apply generative and non-generative AI models to, and develop and improve non-generative AI models on, your Submitted Content to support the core capabilities of the Services (such as search and recommendations). Further, Courseopia may apply generative AI models to your Submitted Content during initial pre-release testing phases in 2024.

Unless otherwise agreed (including within our Promotions Policy, you have the right to remove all or any portion of your Submitted Content from the Services at any time. Except as otherwise agreed, Courseopia’s right to sublicense the rights in this section will terminate with respect to new users 60 days after the Submitted Content’s removal. However, (1) rights given to students before the Submitted Content’s removal will continue in accordance with the terms of those licenses (including any grants of lifetime access) and (2) Courseopia’s right to use such Submitted Content for marketing purposes shall survive termination.

We may record and use all or any part of your Submitted Content for quality control and for delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, or operating the Services. You grant Courseopia permission to use your name, likeness, voice, and image in connection with offering, delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, and selling the Services, your Submitted Content, or Courseopia’s content, and you waive any rights of privacy, publicity, or other rights of a similar nature, to the extent permissible under applicable law.

3. Trust & Safety

3.1 Restricted Topics policies

You agree to abide by Courseopia’s Restricted Topics policy, and other content quality standards or policies prescribed by Courseopia from time to time. You should check these policies periodically to ensure that you comply with any updates to them. You understand that your use of the Services is subject to Courseopia’s approval, which we may grant or deny at our sole discretion.

We reserve the right to remove content, suspend payouts, and/or ban instructors for any reason at any time, without prior notice, including in cases where:

an instructor or content does not comply with our policies or legal terms (including the Terms of Use);
content falls below our quality standards or has a negative impact on the student experience;
an instructor engages in behavior that might reflect unfavorably on Courseopia or bring Courseopia into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, or ridicule;
an instructor engages the services of a marketer or other business partner who violates Courseopia’s policies;
an instructor uses the Services in a way that constitutes unfair competition, such as promotion of their off-site business in a way that violates Courseopia’s policies; or
as determined by Courseopia in its sole discretion.

3.2 Relationship to Other Users

Instructors don’t have a direct contractual relationship with students, so the only information you’ll receive about students is what is provided to you through the Services. You agree that you will not use the data you receive for any purpose other than providing your services to those students on the Courseopia platform, and that you won’t solicit additional personal data or store students’ personal data outside the Courseopia platform. You agree to indemnify Courseopia against any claims arising from your use of students’ personal data.

4. Pricing

4.1 Price Setting

When creating Submitted Content available for purchase on Courseopia, you will be prompted to select a base price (“Base Price“) for your Submitted Content.

When a student purchases using a foreign currency, we will convert the relevant Base Price into the student’s applicable currency using a foreign currency conversion rate set by Courseopia or our payment processors.

You give us permission to share your Submitted Content for free with our employees, with selected partners, and in cases where we need to restore access to accounts who have previously purchased your Submitted Content. You understand that you will not receive compensation in these cases.

4.2 Transaction Taxes

If a student purchases a product or service in a country that requires Courseopia to remit national, state, or local sales or use taxes, value added taxes (VAT), or other similar transaction taxes (“Transaction Taxes“), under applicable law, we may collect and remit those Transaction Taxes to the competent tax authorities for those sales. We may increase the sale price at our discretion where we determine that such taxes may be due. For purchases through mobile applications, applicable Transaction Taxes are collected by the mobile platform (such as Apple’s App Store or Google Play).

5. Payments

5.1 Revenue Share

When a student purchases your Submitted Content, we calculate the gross amount of the sale as the amount actually received by Courseopia from the student (“Gross Amount“). From this, we subtract any Transaction Taxes, any mobile platform fees applied to mobile provider checkout sales, and any amounts paid to third parties in connection with the Instructor Programs to calculate the net amount of the sale (“Net Amount“).

Your revenue share will be from the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds. This share will be determined and agreed with Courseopia before listing your course. If we change this payment rate, we will provide you 30 days notice using prominent means, such as via email or by posting a notice through our Services.

Courseopia makes all instructor payments in U.S. dollars (USD) regardless of the currency with which the sale was made. Courseopia is not responsible for your foreign currency conversion fees, wiring fees, or any other processing fees that you may incur.

5.3 Receiving Payments

For us to pay you in a timely manner, you must own a PayPal, Payoneer, or U.S. bank account (for U.S. residents only) in good standing and must keep us informed of the correct email associated with your account. You must also provide any identifying information or tax documentation (such as a W-9 or W-8) necessary for payment of amounts due, and you agree that we have the right to withhold appropriate taxes from your payments. We reserve the right to withhold payments or impose other penalties if we do not receive proper identifying information or tax documentation from you. You understand and agree that you are ultimately responsible for any taxes on your income.

5.4 Refunds

You acknowledge and agree that students have the right to receive a refund, as detailed in the Terms of Use. Instructors will not receive any revenue from transactions for which a refund has been granted under the Terms of Use.

If a student asks for a refund after we have paid the relevant instructor payment, we reserve the right to either (1) deduct the amount of the refund from the next payment sent to the instructor or (2) where no further payments are due to the instructor or the payments are insufficient to cover the refunded amounts, require the instructor to refund any amounts refunded to students for the instructor’s Submitted Content.

6. Trademarks

While you are a published instructor and subject to the requirements below, you may use our trademarks where we authorize you to do so.

You must:

only use the images of our trademarks that we make available to you, as detailed in any guidelines we may publish;
only use our trademarks in connection with the promotion and sale of your Submitted Content available on Courseopia or your participation on Courseopia; and
immediately comply if we request that you discontinue use.

You must not:

use our trademarks in a misleading or disparaging way;
use our trademarks in a way that implies that we endorse, sponsor, or approve of your Submitted Content or services; or
use our trademarks in a way that violates applicable law or in connection with an obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic or material.

7. Deleting Your Account

Instructions on how to delete your instructor account are available on your dashboard. We’ll use commercially reasonable efforts to make any remaining scheduled payments that are owed to you before deleting your account. You understand that if students have previously enrolled in your Submitted Content, your name and that Submitted Content may remain accessible to those students after your account is deleted. If you need help or encounter difficulty deleting your account, you can contact us at support@courseopia.com.

8. Miscellaneous Legal Terms

8.1 Updating These Terms

From time to time, we may update these Terms to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different practices (such as when we add new features), and Courseopia reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify and/or make changes to these Terms at any time. If we make any material change, we will notify you using prominent means such as by email notice sent to the email address specified in your account or by posting a notice through our Services. Modifications will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise.

Your continued use of our Services after changes become effective shall mean that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.

8.2 Translations

Any version of these Terms in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.

8.3 Relationship Between Us

You and we agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists between us.

8.4 Survival

The following sections shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms: Sections 2 (License to Courseopia), 3.3 (Relationship to Other Users), 5.3 (Receiving Payments), 5.4 (Refunds), 7 (Deleting Your Account), and 8 (Miscellaneous Legal Terms).

9. How to Contact Us

The best way to get in touch with us is to contact us on support@courseopia.com. We’d love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about our Services.