Ensure student success with course compliance

As a course creator, you want to know how your students are progressing through your course, and how effective your course materials are. Many online course creators also want to ensure that students complete their course. While graded quizzes provide some insight, students can sometimes complete the course without grasping important concepts. Depending on the course, it can be critical for your students to do so before certificates are awarded for proof, compliance, and verification. That’s why we are so excited to share the release of course compliance on Teachable with you.

Any student who has finished your compliance enabled course will not only have completed your course in sequence, but will also have passed all the required quizzes. Now, completion certificates can mean more than just completing a course, and your students can be rewarded for their hard work.

Celebrating wins

Course compliance allows online course creators to offer courses that require lesson completion, quiz completion, and video compliance. With course compliance, you can be assured that all the students who have successfully completed your course have gained all the takeaways you intended. In the long term, this will gather stronger testimonials, add credibility to your online courses, and build a better reputation for your online courses.

Offering corporate trainings or courses with credit? You can use our course compliance feature to abide by the rules, laws, and regulations your company or organizations may have set. Stay on brand and stay trusted with a legally compliant online course.

Enable course compliance on Teachable

Course compliance is available to schools on Professional plans and up, and is found on the course level (Admin > Courses > Information), so you can enable it for applicable courses.

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Teachable allows you to enforce lesson order on your course, meaning students must complete the course in the order you’ve set in the curriculum. Students won’t be able to jump ahead if they do not finish previous lessons. Instead, they’ll be directed back to the most recent section they’ve completed.

School owners can also enable video compliance if there are videos in their courses. By enabling this function, students must complete watching the entire video in order to move on to the next lesson.

Additionally, school owners are also able to gate the lesson curriculum with quizzes. You can require your students to complete the quizzes in your course. You can even require them to pass them before they can continue on to the next lesson.

Going for the grade

You can set the minimum passing score for all quizzes in their course. You can also set the maximum number of retakes students are allowed per quiz. For example, if you set the passing score to be 80%, students must score 80% or higher on all quizzes in the course in order to progress through the curriculum. If they hit the maximum number of retakes, you will receive an email alert to reset the quiz attempts and score for them.

What if students keep failing their quizzes and ask for quiz resets multiple times? It’s at your discretion as to whether you want your students to continue on with the course. In other words, with this feature, you’d be able to fail students from your course.

To do so, it’s very important to be clear about the passing requirements in your course description. And explain in your refund policy what happens if students fail. This can help you attract more serious students and earn more quality testimonials for your course.

Want to learn more about course compliance on Teachable? Check out our guide in the Knowledge Base.

Upgrade your course certificates

Earlier this year, we launched native course completion certificates on Teachable to provide a way for course creators to verify that their students have completed their course. With the addition of our course compliance feature, you can make these certifications even more meaningful.

You can now enforce lesson order and video compliance to ensure students have 100% completed your online course before they receive their course completion certificate.

Additionally, you can set the minimum passing score, and customize your course certificate to show that your students have not only completed the course but have earned the certificate with a specific grade, too.

Start using course compliance today

If you’re on the Professional plan or higher, you can enable course compliance on your online course today. If you’re on the Free or Basic plan, you can upgrade to start using course compliance for your courses.