Urmate Study
Instructor Rules
These rules define how instructors create content, teach, communicate, handle student data, receive payouts, and stay eligible on Urmate Study. Rules version: 2026-06-05.
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Original Content & Copyright
- Instructors must upload only original content created by them or content they are legally allowed to use.
- Instructors must not copy full courses, videos, PDFs, slides, quizzes, code, notes, images, or resources from other creators.
- Third-party material may be used only when the instructor has permission, a valid license, or a clear educational fair-use basis.
- Pirated books, leaked PDFs, paid course material, copyrighted videos, copied notes, or unauthorized files are not allowed.
- The instructor is responsible for copyright claims related to their course or teaching material.
- Urmate may remove or restrict content if a copyright violation is reported or reasonably suspected.
- Repeat copyright violations can lead to course removal, payout hold, suspension, or permanent instructor ban.
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Trademark & Brand Usage
- Instructors must not misuse names, logos, trademarks, school names, institute names, government exam logos, company logos, or brand assets.
- Instructors must not claim a fake partnership with any company, university, government body, exam board, or institution.
- Brand names may be used for accurate educational reference only, and must not mislead students.
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Course Quality Standards
- Courses must have a clear title, description, learning outcomes, and target audience.
- Audio and video should be understandable enough for students to learn without avoidable confusion.
- Courses must not be low-effort, spammy, empty, misleading, unsafe, or duplicate content.
- Lessons should follow a logical structure with useful notes, assignments, quizzes, or projects where relevant.
- Admins may reject courses that are incomplete, poor quality, misleading, copied, unsafe, or not useful for students.
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Academic Honesty
- Instructors must not sell exam leaks, answer keys, cheating methods, fake certificates, or unfair exam help.
- Instructors must not encourage students to cheat in school, college, competitive exams, interviews, or workplace assessments.
- Instructors may teach concepts, ethical preparation methods, practice questions, previous-year explanations, and legitimate study strategy.
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Student Safety & Respect
- Instructors must communicate respectfully with students and other community members.
- Harassment, abuse, threats, hate speech, bullying, sexual content, or discrimination are not allowed.
- Personal attacks based on religion, caste, race, gender, disability, nationality, language, or background are not allowed.
- Instructors must not ask students for unnecessary personal information.
- Instructors must not contact minors outside platform-approved channels without proper rules and consent.
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Communication Rules
- Instructors should use platform-approved communication channels whenever possible.
- Instructors must not spam students or force students to join external paid groups.
- Instructors must not collect student phone numbers, emails, passwords, OTPs, private documents, or payment details directly.
- External links are allowed only when useful, safe, and not misleading.
- Urmate may restrict harmful, spammy, suspicious, or unsafe links.
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Payment & Revenue Rules
- Instructor payouts follow Urmate's active revenue share and payment policy.
- Refunds, chargebacks, discounts, taxes, payment gateway fees, and platform fees may affect final payout.
- Instructors must provide correct payout and tax details.
- Fraudulent activity can lead to payout hold, review, suspension, or permanent removal.
- Urmate may withhold payment during dispute review, copyright claim, fraud review, or policy violation investigation.
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Course Pricing & Promotion
- Instructors must not mislead students with fake discounts, fake urgency, fake results, fake testimonials, or manipulated proof.
- Instructors must not promise guaranteed marks, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed selection, or guaranteed income unless legally and practically proven.
- Marketing content must be honest, clear, and aligned with the actual course.
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AI Content Policy
- Instructors may use AI tools to improve teaching material, but must review the content before publishing.
- Instructors are responsible for the accuracy and safety of AI-generated material.
- Fully AI-generated, low-quality courses without human review are not allowed.
- Instructors must not use AI to copy another creator's course, notes, code, quizzes, or explanations.
- AI-generated code, notes, quiz answers, and explanations should be checked before publishing.
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Prohibited Content
- Courses must not promote illegal activities, hacking abuse, phishing, malware, credential theft, violence, self-harm, hate, extremist content, adult or sexual content, dangerous weapons, harmful instructions, illegal substances, fraud, scams, fake documents, fake certificates, exam cheating, or paper leaks.
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Live Class Rules
- Instructors must start live classes on time or communicate changes clearly.
- Instructors must not abuse, shame, insult, or humiliate students.
- Instructors must not record or share student faces or voices without proper permission.
- Instructors must follow platform moderation rules during live classes.
- Admins may review live class reports and take action when needed.
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Student Data & Privacy
- Instructors must protect student privacy and use student data only for legitimate teaching purposes.
- Instructors must not download, sell, leak, or misuse student data.
- Instructors must not ask for passwords, OTPs, private IDs, bank details, or personal documents.
- Privacy violations can lead to immediate suspension, payout hold, and permanent removal.
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Reviews & Ratings
- Instructors must not buy fake reviews or manipulate ratings.
- Instructors must not force students to give 5-star ratings.
- Instructors must not offer money, gifts, refunds, or special treatment in exchange for positive reviews.
- Instructors must not threaten or harass students for negative reviews.
- Urmate may remove fake, manipulated, abusive, or policy-violating reviews.
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Platform Review Rights
- Urmate may review instructor applications, courses, live classes, messages, reports, and uploaded materials for safety and quality.
- Urmate may approve, reject, unpublish, suspend, or request edits to instructor content or accounts.
- Instructors may appeal a decision when an appeal path is available.
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Violation & Strike System
- Enforcement may include warning, course edit required, course unpublished, payout hold, temporary suspension, or permanent instructor ban.
- Admins may record a violation reason, internal note, public note, strike count, and suspension expiry date.
- Severe violations may skip lower enforcement levels.
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Final Instructor Declaration
- I confirm that all information submitted by me is true. I understand that false information, copied content, unsafe teaching, payment fraud, or platform rule violations may result in rejection, suspension, payout hold, or permanent removal from the platform.

