Reviewer Guidelines

1. Who can review

Only people who completed a program or course: you finished the required coursework or earned its credential.

• One review per person per program. You can update it later; earlier versions are kept, and updates are checked again.
• You can't review if you are, or were, an employee, instructor, contractor or affiliate of the school, or a close relative of one, or if you compete with it.
• No one may pay or reward you for a review, or for a positive one. We don't offer incentives at launch.

2. How we verify completion

Every review needs proof, which only our moderators see:

• Certificate or badge link: a public link showing your name and the program. We check it automatically and a moderator confirms.
• School invite: a single-use link a school sends to every completer of a cohort.
• Uploaded document: a certificate or completion record, checked by a moderator and deleted within 30 days.
• Profile link: a public professional profile listing the credential, used as supporting evidence only.

Each published review shows a badge naming how completion was verified. A moderator checks every review, usually within 2 business days.

3. What a review includes

• Three required 1–5 scores: Training Quality, Cost/Value, and Support & Mentorship; optional detail scores (N/A allowed).
• Facts: completion month, format, price actually paid (range), hours per week, and whether you'd recommend it.
• A title, what worked, what didn't, and a review of at least 150 characters; optionally your job outcome six months later.

4. Writing a useful review

• Describe your own experience: what you built, how support worked, what you'd tell a friend.
• Write it yourself. AI-generated or copied text isn't allowed.
• Don't include personal data (yours or others'): no full names of private individuals, contact details or IDs.
• Negative reviews are welcome. Keep criticism factual and avoid insults, hate or harassment.

5. Why a review may be declined or removed

Only for the reasons in our Content and Moderation Policy: unverifiable completion, insider or competitor authorship, AI-generated or duplicate text, personal data, harassment, hate, profanity, off-topic or illegal content. Never for being negative. You'll get the reason by email and can appeal once from My reviews.

6. What schools can and can't do

Schools can post one public response per review, invite whole cohorts to review, and flag a review for a moderator to check. They can never edit, hide, reorder or delete reviews, and paying us never changes that.