Site Guidelines

These are the official posting guidelines ("Site Guidelines") for www.realcoursereview.com website, application, or other interactive services ("Site”). The Site is owned, operated, and/or provided by TobyX Corp. (“TobyX," "we," "us," or "our") and these Site Guidelines are a part of, and an Additional Terms under, our Terms & Conditions.

Real Course Review is the largest online destination for students to research and rate courses from colleges, universities, and other educational institutions across the world. Our mission is to provide a safe forum to share real course experiences to help peer students during their course selection process.

THE SITE/APP

The Real Course Review website (www.realcoursereview.com) and mobile app provide user generated feedback on courses they take in each institution.

Course ratings should only be posted by users who have taken the course from the institution or who are currently taking the course at the institution. For each course, users are limited to posting one (1) comment. All ratings should only be posted by students who have attended or are currently attending a specific course, college, or university being rated.

Real Course Review is NOT the place to report dangerous, illegal, or illicit behaviors. If you believe that you, another instructor, or a student is in danger, we strongly advise you to report such incidences directly to your campus authorities or local law enforcement.

HOW WE WORK

Real Course Review has a team of moderators who read every rating submitted. We have defined site guidelines to help reinforce our mission and most importantly to ensure our decisions around moderation are 100% consistent, regardless of student or instructor. Our moderators are experts on our guidelines and will remove any comment that doesn’t comply.

Did we miss something? If you feel an inappropriate comment should be removed from the site, we want to know. You can flag a comment for re-review and it will immediately be escalated to our moderators. Moderators will determine whether to remove the rating permanently or restore it to the website. Our moderators will never edit a rating to make it comply or remove a rating simply because it is a low score or negative review.

GUIDELINES

Student Guidelines:

• Be honest in your reviews. You want to be able to trust these reviews when evaluating your course options so we ask that to contribute in the same spirit.
• When you are reviewing a course and/or instructor, it’s often helpful to provide both pros and cons. This leads to much more credible and constructive feedback for your peers.
• Reviews should focus specifically on the course and your learning experience. Do not comment on an instructor’s appearance, dress, age, gender, sexual orientation, or race.
• Avoid hearsay. We want you to share your individual experience and what you took away from the course. Don’t speak on behalf of another, encourage others to submit their own reviews.
• This is not a forum for debate. Reviews that specifically reference another review will be removed. If you do not agree with someone’s individual experience, we encourage you to share your own.
• We understand that not all teachers are the perfect match for each individual learning style. Tell us how the course or instructor wasn’t the best for you in a way that helps others make their own decision.
• Reviews fueled by anger do not reflect well on the author and can be removed for violations such as profanity. Take a minute to step back and make sure your review will genuinely help others understand your experience.
• Real Course Review reserves the right to remove ratings that do not contain substantive comments.
• We only allow one student to review one time per course. Spamming or dogpiling an account will lead to comment removal and the account being temporarily locked on the site.
• When reading your fellow students’ reviews, we encourage you to use your discretion and weigh every review amongst the others. Online reviews should be one of the many resources used when making a decision that affects your academic future.

Prohibited Content (Comments that contain the following will be removed):

• Profanity, name-calling, and/or vulgarity, derogatory remarks about religion, ethnicity or race, gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, age, mental and/or physical disabilities.
• Identifiable information about an instructor, or student that would allow someone to contact the instructor/student outside of their school.
• References to an instructor's or student’s family, personal life, and/or sex life, including sexual innuendos.
• Claims that an instructor shows bias for or against a student or specific group of students.
• Claims about an instructor's employment status, including previous employment.
• Claims that an instructor or student engages or has engaged in illegal activities.
• Direct references to other existing comments or comments that have been deleted by our moderators.
• Accusations that the instructor is rating him/herself or his/her colleagues.
• A language other than English. Comments must be written in English only. French is allowed if you attend a French-Canadian school.
• Hyperlinks and/or URLs.

Instructor / School Staff Guidelines:

• This is an anonymous website where students can share their classroom experiences. We are unable to provide any data or personal information about the submitter of a review.
• We do not proactively add any instructor, course, or campus to our website, every profile was submitted by our student community.
• We are unable to remove a comment simply because it is negative. It will only be removed if it doesn’t comply with our site guidelines.
• Replies fueled by anger do not reflect well on the author and can be removed for violations such as profanity. Take a minute to step back and make sure your reply will genuinely help others.
• Real Course Review’s' moderation team is unable to prove or disprove details mentioned in a review. We are not arbiters of facts.
• If you believe that your profile is being spammed or dogpiled, please tell us. You can contact us here or at support@realcoursereview.com. We’re here to help and will happily review the comments in question.
• While it is against our guidelines for an instructor to rate the course themselves, we recommend for instructors to encourage their students to provide ratings each semester. The more reviews you have, the more representative they will be.

FLAGGING A RATING

If you see a rating that you believe violates these Site Guidelines, please click the "report this review" at the bottom of the comment and state the problem. Such comments will be evaluated by the Site's personnel. Please do not flag a rating just because you disagree with it.

SOME LEGAL STUFF

Real Course Review occasionally receives removal demands that include threats to sue Real Course Review. To date, no one has followed through with a lawsuit against us for our reviews.

The law protects Real Course Review from legal responsibility for the content submitted by our users, like the reviews that appear on our site. pecifically, in the United State, the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. Sec. 230) created a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers, like Real Course Review, liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service.

The law is clear on this: Anyone who wishes to sue Real Course Review for the reviews posted by our member risks penalties imposed by the court. These may include financial sanctions and reimbursement of our attorney's fees for our having to defend against a lawsuit that ignores obvious legal protections for Real Course Review.

If despite our caution, you feel that legal action is the only recourse for you, our address for service of legal process is:

TobyX Corp.
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If you intend to serve documents on TobyX Corp., please make sure that service is properly effected in the US or Canada in accordance with all applicable law. We are not obligated to respond if the service is not valid.

These guidelines are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. While we stand by our guidelines, you are encouraged to seek advice from an attorney who is competent in the relevant field of law.

RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

The Site reserves the right to remove any comments deemed as inappropriate, libelous, defamatory, indecent, vulgar or obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive, racially, culturally, or ethnically offensive, harmful, harassing, intimidating, threatening, hateful, objectionable, discriminatory, or abusive, or which may or may not appear to impersonate anyone else or that otherwise violate the Terms & Conditions.

The Site reserves the right to remove, provide to authorities or otherwise take appropriate action regarding comments that threaten violence or bodily harm to another user or instructor including, but not limited to, notifying the authorities of your IP address, where available, and the time you rated and taking any action as described in the Term of Services and Privacy Policy.