Honest guides for people taking online courses
Three pieces so far, and a deliberate rule about what goes here: nothing gets published unless it would still be useful to someone who never buys anything from us.
That rule rules out most of what this industry publishes. We are not going to write "10 tips to ace your online class" for the seventh time, and we are not going to run a keyword-stuffed post about a university we have no relationship with. What is here instead is the material we found ourselves explaining over and over to people who wrote in: how to tell a real service from a fraud, what to do in the specific week a course starts slipping away from you, and what the national data actually says about who studies online and why so many of them do not finish.
Some of it argues against hiring us. The scam guide lists warning signs we would fail on if we ever started behaving that way, and the catch-up guide is mostly a plan you can execute yourself for free. That is intentional. In a market this full of operators who take a payment and vanish, the scarce thing is not another sales page — it is a reason to believe anything on the site is true.
Everything published so far
Written by the specialists named on each piece, not by a content agency.
What is coming next
Rather than pad this page out, here is the honest state of it: the blog is three posts old because the site is new, and we would rather publish slowly than fill the archive with material nobody needed. The next pieces are already decided — a plain-English breakdown of how proctoring software actually works and what it can and cannot detect, a guide to reading a syllabus for the deadlines that will hurt you later, and a walkthrough of how grade weighting turns a decent-looking dashboard percentage into a worse final mark than students expect.
If you want something covered that is not here, tell us. The three posts above all came from questions people actually sent, and that is a better commissioning process than a keyword tool.
In the meantime, the resources page has the free calculators and the platform reference material, and this page is the one to read first if you are in the middle of a course going wrong right now.