For course creators
Get verified. Build trust. Get discovered.
TrustMyCourse independently reviews online courses. Approved courses receive a dated verification decision and may display the Verified mark. Where the course is listed here, the verification record is published on its course profile.
Why get verified
What an approved course gets
Verification produces a dated record, published on the course profile once the course is listed here. Everything below follows from that record existing and being checkable.
Get verified
A public TrustMyCourse verification record shows what was reviewed and when. Passing is a statement about your course that you did not write yourself.
Build trust
Approved courses may display the TrustMyCourse Verified mark and link it back to their public record, so a cold visitor can check the claim rather than take it on faith.
Get discovered
Verified courses can appear in the relevant TrustMyCourse categories and course discovery pages, in front of people already looking for that subject.
Founding courses
Become a founding course
TrustMyCourse is building its first independent course directory and is selecting courses for it now. Courses selected during the launch period can complete verification at no cost.
There is no fee during the founding period, and selection does not guarantee verification. Every course is assessed against the same published standard.
An approved founding course gets
- TrustMyCourse Verified status
- A public course profile showing what was checked and when
- A listing in the relevant course categories
- Access to the TrustMyCourse Verified mark for your own site
What if the course does not pass?
A review buys the work of checking a course, not a particular answer. A course that does not meet the standard is not verified, and no payment changes that. That is the point of the mark being worth something. It is not, however, the same as getting nothing.
You get the findings in writing
A review that ends without a Verified result still produces the reviewer’s account of what was checked and what did not line up. You see the specific gap, not a rejection.
The findings are things you can act on
Most outcomes short of Verified are about evidence rather than quality: a claim on the sales page the course does not support, pricing that is stated one way and charged another, or material the syllabus promises and does not deliver. Those are fixable.
You can come back once it is fixed
A course is not blacklisted by an unsuccessful review. When the problems are addressed the course can be submitted again and assessed against the same published standard.
The process
How it works
Five steps, no account and no payment. Not every submission reaches the last one.
Step 1: Submit your course
Send basic details about the course and how we might review it. It takes a couple of minutes and needs no account.
Step 2: We review the submission
We confirm whether the course is suitable for review and agree a verification method with you.
Step 3: Provide access or evidence
Either give us reviewer access to the course, or provide evidence from people who bought it. Both routes lead to the same standard.
Step 4: Verification decision
A reviewer works through the published criteria. If the evidence meets the standard, the course receives Verified status.
Step 5: Your public profile goes live
Approved courses receive a dated verification decision and may display the Verified mark. Where the course is listed on TrustMyCourse, the verification record is published on its course profile. Not every submission reaches this step.
The economics
What a review has to earn back
The fee is fixed and the maths is small enough to do in your head. Here it is, with nothing hidden in it.
Low-ticket course
If you keep $25 per sale
6
extra sales cover the $149 fee
A short self-paced course sold through a marketplace.
Mid-ticket course
If you keep $75 per sale
2
extra sales cover the $149 fee
A full course sold from your own site.
High-ticket programme
If you keep $400 per sale
1
extra sale covers the $149 fee
A cohort programme or a course with coaching attached.
These are illustrations, not projections. They show what break-even looks like at three price points using a fee we know and a margin you would supply. They are not a claim that verification will produce those sales, and we publish no figure for how much a review changes conversion, because we have not measured one.
The badge
A mark your buyers can check.
Every approved course receives a TrustMyCourse Verified badge to display wherever it sells. It is not decoration: it links back to the course’s public verification profile, so anyone can confirm the status for themselves.
- It links to the public record
- The badge points at the course profile on TrustMyCourse, so a buyer can read what was checked instead of taking a graphic at face value.
- It carries a date
- The profile shows when the most recent review was completed and when the next one is due.
- It reflects the current status
- If verification lapses or is withdrawn, the profile the badge links to says so.
How it appears on TrustMyCourse
How the verified mark reads across this site. What a creator embeds is a single image served from TrustMyCourse, so it always shows the course’s current status without anyone updating anything.
Using the badge
Displaying the Verified mark
When a course is verified we email you a snippet. It is a single image and a link: no script, no tracking, nothing to install.
The image is served by TrustMyCourse rather than copied to your site, so it always shows the current position. If a verification is renewed the badge carries on unchanged, and if one lapses or is withdrawn the same image stops showing an active mark. You never have to replace it.
The badge is not the proof. The profile it links to is.
- It applies to the verified course only, not automatically to your other products.
- Keep the link to the public profile, so anyone can check the current status.
- Do not alter the badge artwork, its colours or its wording.
Example embed code
Your own identifier arrives by email once the course is verified.
<a href="https://trustmycourse.com/badge/bdg_EXAMPLE00000000000000/profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://trustmycourse.com/badge/bdg_EXAMPLE00000000000000/verified.svg"
alt="Verified by TrustMyCourse"
width="228" height="56">
</a>The image is 228 by 56 pixels and its alt text reads “Verified by TrustMyCourse”.
Discovery
An additional way to be found.
A verified listing puts your course in front of people already browsing that subject. We will not promise search rankings or traffic volumes, because nobody can honestly guarantee those. What it does give you is a public profile and a place in the right categories, a channel you do not have today.
A learner browses a subject
Someone looking for a course in your field opens the relevant TrustMyCourse category.
They open a verification profile
Your course profile shows what it teaches, who it is for, what it costs and what was checked.
They follow the link to you
The profile links to your own page, where the sale happens on your terms.
Earned, never sold
Verified status is the result of a review. A creator pays for the review to be carried out, never for its outcome, and a course that does not meet the standard is not verified at any price.
Advertising, always labelled
Featured placement is advertising. It will appear in its own labelled section above ordinary results, never mixed into them, and it changes nothing about whether or how a course is verified.
Does submitting guarantee verification?
No. Submitting starts a review; it does not decide one. We assess the available evidence against the published standard, and a course that does not meet it is not verified. Being selected for a founding review changes nothing about that.
Do founding courses pay for verification?
No. Courses selected for review during the founding period are not charged. That covers the review itself. It does not buy an outcome, and it does not buy placement anywhere on the site.
Will verification always be free?
We are not promising that. Founding terms apply during the launch period, and pricing may differ afterwards. Anyone reviewed under founding terms will be told before anything changes for them.
Can I pay for a better verification result?
No. No payment, now or later, can change a verification decision. Featured placement is advertising: it can move a course into a labelled section on a category page and nothing else. A course cannot buy a featured slot unless it already holds current Verified status.
Which review methods do you use?
Two: a direct course review, where we access the course and inspect what it delivers, and a buyer evidence review, where we assess evidence from people who bought it. For a paid or closed course a direct review normally means you give us access; where a course is public or free to enrol in we may already be able to reach it ourselves. Both can result in the same Verified status, and the method used is always stated on your public profile.
What happens if my course changes later?
Verification carries a date and a scheduled re-check. If the course or its public offer changes materially, we may re-check it earlier. Verification can be renewed, can expire, and can be withdrawn, and the public record shows the dates either way.
Ready to submit a course?
It takes a couple of minutes, needs no account, and there is no fee during the founding period.