Where the data comes from

Separate direct and platform sources

CredScape uses two source roles. Direct institutional crawls collect offerings from an institution's own catalogue in Canada and the United States. Platform catalogues, including edX, broaden discovery through another publishing channel.

Both source roles are searchable. Platform catalogues are excluded from Market Composition, so finding a platform-published offering does not mean that its provider contributes to the market shares and price context on the dashboard.

Judge recency one offering at a time

Every offering carries the date it was collected. This is a calendar date, not a timestamp. CredScape does not publish a crawl cadence, so use that collection date to judge recency for the offering in front of you. Open the original source when a current schedule, price, or registration detail matters to your decision.

Alerts also use collection dates. For a saved search, provider, or skill, new means collected since your last successful check. A re-crawl can therefore surface an existing offering as new to you. The alert is reporting when it entered the current monitoring window, not claiming that the provider created it that day.

Read coverage numbers by their unit

Facet counts and composition shares count courses only. Programs can bundle courses already represented in that tier, so adding both would overstate part of the market.

Public coverage figures are conservative floors. They are rounded down and displayed with a plus sign so they remain true as the corpus grows between updates. For the fields and collection model behind those figures, see Data and methodology.