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Independent course verification

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Search 500+ online courses, and see exactly what has been independently checked on each one. We do not sell courses and we do not rate them.

500+
courses listed
35
independently verified
80+
providers

Most courses here have not been independently verified by TrustMyCourse, and we make that clear on every listing. How verification works

Directory

Recently verified courses

The latest courses to complete a review. Each date is when that review finished.

  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00034

    Anime Art Academy

    Design

    Drawing Anime Faces – Premium Course Lesson Pack 1

    A self-paced online course focused on drawing anime-style faces. Across 20 video lessons, learners explore facial proportions, different viewing angles, facial features, hairstyles, expressions, and coloring techniques. The course includes downloadable practice materials and access to instructor feedback on submitted artwork.

    Price
    $517
    Level
    All levels
    Format
    Self-paced

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    Reviewed
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  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00018

    Ahrefs

    SEO

    Advanced Link Building Course

    Fifteen lessons on link building, presented as the advanced counterpart to the introductory module inside Ahrefs’ beginner SEO course. Free, and explicitly aimed at people past the basics.

    Price
    Free
    Level
    Advanced
    Format
    Self-paced

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  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00016

    Hugging Face

    Artificial Intelligence

    Agents Course

    A five-chapter course on building and deploying AI agents, with three bonus units on fine-tuning, observability and a game application. Chapters are designed for about three to four hours a week, and two free certificates are offered with no deadline. Stated prerequisites are basic Python and basic knowledge of language models.

    Price
    Free
    Level
    Intermediate
    Format
    Self-paced

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  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00012

    Canva Design School

    Design

    Branding Your Business

    At two hours thirty-eight minutes the longest course on the Canva Design School index, covering brand building for a business rather than a single artefact.

    Price
    Price not confirmed
    Level
    Intermediate
    Format
    Self-paced

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  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00031

    Saylor University

    Data & Analytics

    BUS204: Business Statistics

    Forty hours covering data distributions, probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, inference and regression, aimed at business use. Free from Saylor, guest-readable, with a free certificate and college credit recommended.

    Price
    Free
    Level
    Intermediate
    Format
    Self-paced

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  • VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00006

    Harvard University (CS50)

    Artificial Intelligence

    CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

    Harvard's AI course, published free as OpenCourseWare. Seven lecture topics work through search, knowledge representation, uncertainty, optimisation, machine learning, neural networks and language, with Python projects attached to each. It is explicitly a follow-on rather than a first course: the stated prerequisite is CS50x or roughly a year of Python experience, and the material assumes the learner can already write and debug their own programs.

    Price
    Free
    Level
    Intermediate
    Format
    Self-paced

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The standard

What verification means, and what it does not

An independent check against a published standard. A reviewer applies judgement. There is no scorecard, no weighting and no pass mark, and nothing here is a rating.

What we check

  • Curriculum matches the offer
  • Creator identity
  • Access and delivery
  • Advertised claims
  • Pricing and terms
  • Support and updates

What we do not claim

  • Whether you will earn money, find work or reach any particular result
  • Whether a course is the right choice for your situation
  • Teaching quality, or the personal opinions of previous buyers
  • Anything a creator changes between scheduled re-checks
Listed

A listed course is a real record of a real course. TrustMyCourse has not reviewed it, and every page says so.

Verified

A verified course has a dated public record with a reference, stating what was checked and when it is due to be checked again.

Verification record

Verification identifier TMC-2026-00034

Verifiedby TrustMyCourse
Method
Direct course review
Verified
Re-check due

What we found

TrustMyCourse conducted a direct review of Drawing Anime Faces - Premium Course Lesson Pack 1. The review confirmed the presence of all 20 advertised lessons, tested sample video playback and downloadable materials, and examined examples of personalized instructor feedback. Provider information, published pricing, refund terms, and marketing claims were also reviewed. Long-term access, individual learning outcomes, and the full checkout process were not independently tested.

This is a real record, not an example. It belongs to Drawing Anime Faces – Premium Course Lesson Pack 1, and it is the same card the course profile shows, from the same row. Verification expires: every decision carries the date it stops being current, and the badge a creator displays stops saying Verified on its own.

Read the full verification standard

Questions

What verification does and does not do

What does TrustMyCourse Verified mean?

It means a reviewer worked through our published checks and confirmed that the course delivers the offering it advertises. That happens one of two ways: either we are given the same access a paying learner gets, or we assess evidence from people who bought the course. Both lead to the same standard, and every profile says which was used. Verified describes what a course is: its curriculum, access, pricing terms and the accuracy of its marketing. It is not a judgement of teaching quality and not a prediction of what any learner will achieve.

Do creators pay to receive a positive verification result?

A review may carry a fee, though founding reviews are currently free. Where a fee applies it never guarantees approval: it covers the work of reviewing the course and does not buy the outcome. Courses that do not meet the standard are not verified, and no fee changes that. Featured placement is a separate, clearly labelled advertising product sold only to courses already holding Verified status, and it never affects whether or how a course is verified.

Does verification guarantee results?

No. TrustMyCourse verifies objective, checkable characteristics of a course. We make no claim about income, employment, return on investment or whether you will succeed. Any course promising guaranteed outcomes is treated as a problem during review, not a selling point.

How are courses checked?

A reviewer works through a published list of criteria covering curriculum, creator identity, access and delivery, advertised claims, pricing and terms, and any promised support. There are two ways of getting there: a direct course review, where the creator gives us learner access, and a buyer evidence review, where we assess evidence from people who bought the course. Both are held to the same standard and produce the same badge. The result of each check is recorded, and the method used and the checks completed are both shown on the course’s public profile.

Can verification be removed?

Yes. Verification carries a date and a scheduled re-check. If a course materially changes, if its marketing starts making claims it cannot support, or if a substantiated report shows it no longer meets the standard, the status is updated or withdrawn and the public record reflects that.

How can a creator submit a course?

Creators apply through TrustMyCourse with their course and its public sales page. We then agree how the review will be carried out, either by giving us access to the course, or by providing evidence from people who bought it. TrustMyCourse can also start a review on its own where a course is public or free to enrol in, and the result means the same either way. We confirm what is needed before a review begins, and the published criteria are available in full beforehand so there are no surprises about what is assessed.

Why are most courses only listed?

Verification is a manual check, so the register grows one decision at a time. 35 of 500+ listed courses currently hold a verification. The rest are listed without a TrustMyCourse review, and we say so on every one of them.

For course creators

Show buyers your course is what it says it is.

TrustMyCourse reviews courses against a published standard and publishes a dated record of what was checked. Verified courses can display the mark on their own sales page, served from here so it stays current.

  1. Step 01: Submit

    You send the course, who sells it and how a reviewer can reach the material.

  2. Step 02: Review

    We access it, compare what is delivered against what the sales page promises, and record what we find.

  3. Step 03: Result

    A dated decision either way, sent to you directly. Where the course is listed here, that record is public.

A review does not guarantee a Verified result, and a course that does not meet the standard is not verified. See what happens if a course does not pass