Marketplace Course Publisher Requirements

Dual Code's OCI Marketplace connects course publishers with individual learners and employers through a network of integrated training and compliance platforms. Our primary focus is the healthcare sector, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, retirement homes, and other healthcare organizations, although courses relevant to other industries are also welcome.

Publishers can offer courses for purchase or free of charge, while employers benefit from seamless access to training and centralized tracking of employee progress and completions.

This document outlines the requirements for becoming an OCI Marketplace course publisher. Please review these requirements to determine whether our distribution model aligns with your organization's needs before proceeding with partnership discussions.

What We Can and Cannot Do

What We Can Do

  • Distribute your courses to individual learners and employers through the OCI Marketplace.
  • Make courses available for purchase or free of charge.
  • Offer volume discounts and site licenses to organizations purchasing courses for multiple learners.
  • Allow employers and managers to purchase courses on behalf of their teams and assign training to employees.
  • Host SCORM-compliant courses and other supported learning activities.
  • Track learner progress and course completions within connected training and compliance platforms.
  • Provide access to a network of organizations, with a particular focus on healthcare.
  • Manage customer payments, refunds, and monthly revenue remittances.
  • Support restricted course distribution to specific groups through Premium plans, subject to additional fees.

What We Cannot Do

  • Simply list or advertise courses hosted on other platforms.
  • Redirect learners to third-party websites or training platforms to complete courses.
  • Resell courses that have not been deployed within a Dual Code Marketplace platform.
  • Distribute courses that cannot reliably track learner completion.
  • Restrict course access to specific groups, such as association members, without a Premium plan (additional fees apply).

Course Hosting

All courses distributed through the OCI Marketplace must be deployed and hosted within a Dual Code Marketplace training and compliance platform.

The Marketplace is not simply a catalogue of courses. We do not advertise, link to, or resell courses that remain hosted on other training platforms.

Publishers must be willing to upload, configure, and maintain their courses within the Marketplace platform provided by Dual Code.

Course Formats and Completion Tracking

All courses must support reliable learner completion tracking.

SCORM-compliant content with completion tracking enabled is our preferred format for third-party e-learning courses. For example, a SCORM package should report successful completion to the platform, rather than simply recording that the learner opened the course.

The Marketplace supports several types of learning activities:

Content Type Usage
SCORM packages Preferred format for trackable e-learning courses
Online quizzes and assessments Evaluating learners and tracking completion
Videos MP4 files or videos hosted on third-party sites, such as YouTube
Files PDF, PowerPoint, Word and other document formats
HTML-based activities Interactive learning content

Videos, documents, and other resources may be included as supplementary learning materials. However, courses consisting solely of documents or videos without reliable completion tracking do not meet our requirements.

Publishers are responsible for ensuring their courses reliably report completion to the platform.

Course Availability and Distribution

Courses must be available to the general public through the OCI Marketplace, either for purchase or free of charge.

Publishers wishing to restrict access to specific groups, such as association members or designated organizations, may do so through our Premium plans, subject to additional fees.

Once published:

  • Courses can be discovered and accessed through the OCI Marketplace.
  • Organizations connected to the OCI network can make courses available to their employees.
  • Learner registrations, progress, and completions are tracked within participating organizations' training and compliance platforms.

Courses must be delivered through this integrated model rather than redirecting learners to external training platforms.

Payments and Revenue Sharing

Dual Code acts as the Merchant of Record for courses sold through the OCI Marketplace.

Dual Code handles:

  • Customer payments and payment processing.
  • Collection and remittance of applicable sales taxes.
  • Refunds and payment-related inquiries.
  • Sales tracking and calculation of the publisher's revenue share.

Publishers receive a monthly statement of remittance detailing course sales, refunds, applicable deductions, and the amount payable.

Payments are deposited monthly via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly into the publisher's designated bank account.

Revenue-sharing percentages, hosting fees (if applicable), and other commercial terms are established separately.

Publisher Responsibilities

Publishers must be a registered corporation, non-profit organization, or charity. Individual course creators who are not operating through one of these entities are not eligible to become Marketplace publishers.

Publishers are also responsible for:

  • Having the necessary rights to distribute and sell their course content.
  • Providing courses in supported formats, preferably SCORM-compliant packages.
  • Deploying and maintaining their courses within the Marketplace platform.
  • Keeping course content accurate and up to date.
  • Addressing content-related issues as needed.

Confirming Your Eligibility

Before moving forward with a publishing partnership, please confirm that the following statements apply to your organization:

  • We are a registered corporation, non-profit organization, or charity.
  • We are willing to deploy and host our courses within a Dual Code Marketplace training and compliance platform.
  • Our courses use supported learning activities and can reliably track learner completion.
  • We understand that our courses must be delivered through Dual Code's platform, rather than simply being advertised or linked to courses on our own website or training platform.
  • We agree to make our courses available to the general public, or use an eligible Premium plan for restricted distribution.
  • We have the necessary rights to distribute our course content.
  • We accept Dual Code's Merchant of Record model, including monthly revenue remittances via EFT.
  • We are willing to maintain and update our courses within the Marketplace platform.

Ready to move forward? If your organization meets all the requirements above, please contact us with a brief description of your course portfolio, the number of courses available, and confirmation that you agree with these requirements.

If one or more requirements do not align with your organization's needs, our Marketplace distribution model may not be the right fit.