Co-Instructor Relationships: Rules and Guidelines

This article aims to provide guidance for instructors considering the option of having multiple instructors involved in creating and managing a Couxion course. It encourages positive scenarios, such as collaboratively developing a course to enhance expertise and offer diverse perspectives. Conversely, it discourages negative practices, such as exploiting the co-instructor feature solely to manipulate Couxion's revenue share through instructor coupons or referral links.

Couxion’s policy on co-instructors

Co-instructor rules:

If you're considering adding a co-instructor to your course, we advise selecting someone you know and trust. Exercise caution if revenue sharing or granting editing rights to a co-instructor is involved. Remember, Couxion's contractual relationship is solely with each individual instructor. Any business agreements between co-instructors regarding a course are their own responsibility and are not governed by Couxion.

In addition, please consider the following:

·       DO add the co-instructor if the individual is bringing in unique expertise in the form of course creation, development, production, teaching or managing the course.

·       DO make co-instructors visible on the course if they’re appearing in the course videos and/or engaging with students. At least one of the visible instructors on the course, should be the person students are learning from and interacting with.

Don’t do the following:

·       DON’T be co-instructors with the primary goal of exploiting Couxion’s marketing tools or sharing each other’s student base.

·       For example, if an instructor wants to pair up with you after you’ve published your course just to market to one another’s students, this is against Couxion policies. Remember, if you’re actually interested in marketing each other’s courses, you can do so by becoming an Affiliate.

·       If on the other hand, you want to co-develop or co-manage a course together right from the beginning, that’s exactly why we enable courses to have multiple instructors, and is totally fine.

Escalation process for violations

It's important to bear in mind that misuse of co-instructor relationships affects everyone involved. Attempts by instructors to enhance their marketing efforts through such methods have been observed to result in negative consequences for students, leading to increased unsubscribe rates for instructor announcements and Couxion emails. This adversely affects all instructors in the marketplace, as these unsubscribed students opt out not only from one instructor's communications but from all Couxion emails.

Instances where an instructor blatantly violates the essence of Couxion policies in an effort to exploit the system or when there's a significant detrimental effect on the student experience (such as high unsubscribe or refund rates due to co-instructor conduct) will be deemed policy violations.

Recognizing that mistakes happen, initial violations typically prompt a warning. Repeat violations may lead to consequences such as loss of access to product features (e.g., Course Announcements), temporary account suspension, or, in rare instances, account termination.