The rules

Terms of use

Plain versions of the rules the platform enforces in code. Where this page and the software disagree, that is a bug — tell us and we will fix it.

What you get

A sixty-day programme with five project briefs and fifty levels of activities, marked automatically, and a publicly verifiable certificate if you reach the bar.

How marks are decided

• The programme is scored out of 1,000: five project briefs marked out of 100, and fifty levels of activities worth 500 between them.
• A project mark is capped by the attempt it came from: up to 55 on a first attempt, 65 on a second, 70 on a third. No project scores above 70, however good it is. Five perfect projects therefore come to 350, not 500 — the daily activities are not optional if you intend to qualify.
• A resubmission that is not better work than the last one keeps the mark it already had. The ceilings reward reworking the project, not sending the same thing again.
• You qualify at 700 points, from any mix of the two. There is no separate minimum for projects.
• Each brief may be attempted three times. Your best passing attempt counts; earlier attempts are not held against you. A submission returned for missing evidence is not an attempt.
• Each of the fifty levels is worth 10 points, made of five activities worth 2 each.
• Quizzes are all-or-nothing: seven correct out of ten earns the 2 points, six earns nothing.
• An answer that has not been marked yet is never counted as wrong.

Marking is automatic, and appealable

Multiple-choice answers are compared against a fixed key. Written answers and project reports are judged by a model against guidance you do not see, so that the guidance cannot simply be written back at us. If you believe a mark is wrong, you can appeal it and a person will read it. Appealing never lowers a mark.

Proctored activities

Some activities are timed and proctored. Leaving the tab, or the window losing focus, is recorded against that attempt. Recorded flags are reviewed by a person before they affect anything — a flag on its own is not an accusation, and no mark is changed automatically because of one.

What counts as cheating

• Submitting work that is not yours as though it were.
• Sharing questions or answers with other students. Papers are split into two sets partly to make this visible.
• Having someone else sit an assessment for you.

Using AI tools to build your projects is the point of the programme, not a breach. What is assessed is the judgement you show in what you build and how you explain it.

Your account

One account per person. You are responsible for keeping your password to yourself. A photograph is required before a certificate can be issued, because the certificate and its public verification page carry your face — that is what makes it yours rather than a name anyone could type. You may start the programme before adding it.

Certificates

A certificate records what you scored on the day it was issued, and stays valid even if the qualifying bar later changes. Each has a permanent public verification page. We may revoke one if it was issued in error or obtained dishonestly, and the verification page will then say so rather than quietly disappearing.

Ending it

You can ask us to close your account and delete your personal data at any time — see the privacy page. Certificates already issued remain publicly verifiable, because a certificate nobody can check is not worth holding.

Questions about these terms: contact us.