Educational Announcements: Rules and Guidelines

On Students Chat Courses market place   Educational Announcements ate solely for the purpose of passing useful educational content that is free and relevant o learners. Instructors are strictly prohibited from using this as an opportunity to get learners to make a additional purchases or passing external links that will lead learners to purchases courses or materials from other sources.

Guidelines

• Content must be free 
• Content must be relevant to the subject area
• Must not link to any other course information except the current course
• Content must not contain sign up links to get students personal details
• Content cannot contain any affiliate links
• Content requesting money  or links requesting any payment is is strictly prohibited

When an instructor is clearly going against the spirit of our policies in an attempt to game the system or if we see a severe negative impact on the student experience (high unsubscribe rates or refund rates) it will be considered a violation of our policies.

The Policy:

You may not direct students from Students Chat courses to other promotional sites where they then would receive coupon codes, be asked to submit an email address before accessing course content, or be prompted to make an off-site purchase of a Udemy course.

 Educational announcements (as opposed to Promotional Emails) are your way to share valuable learning material with your students. External links are allowed in educational announcements, but must contain free educational content only (i.e., non-promotional).