Terms of service - bootcamps
CoGrammar offers online and on-site bootcamps, which each have different Terms of Services. By
becoming a Student with us - defined as someone who has processed payment to start an online
Bootcamp with us - and for the duration of your Bootcamp with us, you are bound by the relevant
Terms and Conditions below depending on whether your bootcamp is on-site or online. In addition, you
are bound by all further clauses regarding payments, refunds, and disenrollment stated below
regardless of whether you are an on-site or online Student
Online bootcamps terms & conditions
By using any and all services disseminated by CoGrammar, you are bound to and agree to the
following terms and conditions:
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Unless otherwise specified under a limited-time promotion/campaign, CoGrammar does NOT
guarantee you a job upon completion. However, as part of your bootcamp, you will have access to
our ongoing career guidance and support services which include but are not limited to technical
CV curation, portfolio amplifying, online career coaching from expert tech recruiters, mock
interviews with our technical team, and an exclusive referral to our network of hiring partners.
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Our Marketing team may from time to time use messages, quotes, or testimonials by currently
enrolled or previously enrolled students in promoting CoGrammar bootcamps, and disseminate
them through its marketing channels at any point.
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Course Curriculum Updates - CoGrammar/HyperionDev reserves the right to update,
modify,
or enhance the course curriculum at any time to reflect industry developments, technological
advancements, feedback from university or industry partners, accreditation requirements, or
other factors that ensure the continued relevance and quality of the programme. Such updates
will not diminish the overall educational value or intended learning outcomes of the course.
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Withdrawing from your bootcamp - Our curriculum builds cumulatively with each
subsequent module tying into the previous. Throughout the bootcamp we’re able to see who is
lagging behind or might need more mentorship to ensure they keep up with the rest of the cohort.
However, should you decide to not pursue your bootcamp or terminate your enrolment at any
point for whatever reason, you will forfeit all your remaining mentor support and will not
be eligible for any refund except as provided for under the current Refund Policy.
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Pausing your bootcamp - Students on the full-time track are not allowed to
pause or put their studies on hold once the cohort has started. Breaks may be allowed only under
certain exceptional circumstances and these would be granted at the sole discretion of
CoGrammar. However, part-time students may take a break for up to a maximum of one (1) month
on their bootcamp.
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Refunds - Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy detailed in clause 2.3
below. All amounts qualifying for a refund are subject to a “Cancellation Fee” defined in clause
2.3 below.
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Referrals - You may refer a friend, partner or family member and both of you
will receive a 10% discount on the bootcamp price. This discount is only eligible to existing
and or newly joining students, and on Upfront Payments for either the full-time or part-time
track. To refer someone, please send an email to our admissions team via the email address - admissions@hyperiondev.com with full details of
your referral, once their registration has been confirmed and identity verified, you will
receive a written approval of your discount with further instructions on how both of you will
proceed with the payment.
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Access to content - All students will gain access to a dedicated online
dashboard and a personal student content folder. All full-time students and part-time students
who have paid upfront will have access to an entire module of their content at a time. Part-time
students who are on a monthly subscription plan will have their content staggered according to
weekly schedules and monthly milestones.
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Non-payment - Monthly or installment payments are due on or before the 5th of
each month to ensure access to the course content is not restricted. Failure to make payments or
to provide sufficient notice of delayed payments could result in restricted content or delay in
your graduation.
Please contact support, using this linked form, should you
have any questions
around non-payment once you have registered.
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We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to
ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.Please note
that no refunds are applicable to monthly installments and any initial placement fees.
Payments, cancellations and withdrawals
Payment Policy
CoGrammar may charge you tuition to attend a course. The amount of any tuition may be revised by
CoGrammar from time to time and vary from region to region, and topic to topic.
Your tuition provides access to the course materials and support services for a specified time
period, as defined during your purchase process. Your access to the course materials and services
will be automatically terminated at the end of your specified time period.
Students may request additional access to course materials and services, on a month by month basis.
The tuition for additional access will be based on the monthly tuition for the Full time version of
the program at the time of the request.
Promotional Payment Policy
All course purchases made as part of a promotion, discount, or special offer are
non-refundable.
This policy applies to all promotional sales, regardless of the type or duration of the promotion.
By purchasing a Bootcamp under a promotion, the buyer acknowledges and agrees to this no-refund
condition. The buyer is still entitled to cancel or withdraw from their course but they will not be
eligible for any tuition refund.
Cancellation Policy
The cancellation policy applies to the period between enrolment and the commencement of your chosen
course of study.
CoGrammar’s Right to Cancel
CoGrammar reserves the right to cancel or postpone a course date at any time and for whatever
reason. Except in cases of force majeure, students will be entitled, at CoGrammar’s discretion, to
either attend the course at the proposed later date or to receive a full refund of any course fees
they have already paid to attend the course on the original date.
CoGrammar reserves the right to cancel an enrolment based on conduct violations prior to the
course start date. If a student displays threatening, abusive, or dangerous behavior toward any of
our staff or personnel, then CoGrammar reserves the right to refuse to allow the student to
continue taking the course. In such circumstances, a student will not be entitled to a refund of any
fees paid except as mandated by the state’s refund policy, and CoGrammar reserves the right to
prevent the student from taking any course in the future if we feel that is necessary for the
protection of our staff or personnel.
CoGrammar reserves the right to cancel an enrolment or disenroll a student for delinquent past-due
balances.
Withdrawal Policy
Students may withdraw from the course at any time (refer to refund table below) and refunds are
determined in accordance with the Refund Policy stated below.
- For the purpose of determining a refund under this section, a student shall be deemed to have
withdrawn from a course from the date of the submission of the Cancellation and Refund Request
Form.
Students can submit their withdrawal notification by contacting support on the linked form.
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CoGrammar will attempt to remedy the cause of the "withdrawal request" by means of
conciliation and mediation before resorting to a final withdrawal and refund. This will be based
on the legal terms and conditions as well as contractual obligations between the parties.
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Students using a payment plan, or finance servicing provider to pay their tuition are
responsible for repaying any outstanding amounts plus any applicable interest, less the amount
of any authorised refund. Please note that no refunds are applicable to monthly instalments and
any initial placement fees.
Students who are withdrawn are not entitled to retain access to the course curriculum or content.
Refund policy
All refunds will be processed within sixty (60) working days of cancellation or withdrawal from the
course. All Refunds will be less a withdrawal fee of 15%, where applicable.
If any portion of the tuition was paid from the proceeds of a loan or third party, the refund shall
be sent to the lender, third party, or, if applicable, to the state or federal agency that
guaranteed or reinsured the loan.
Refund Table
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Weeks since initial placement payment completed and/or scheduled Bootcamp
commencement date
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Maximum Possible Qualifying Refund as a % of Tuition Fee (subject to a further
Cancellation Fee to the extent of 15% of the Tuition Fee) |
| <1 week |
50% |
| 1 to 2 weeks |
40% |
| 2-3 weeks |
25% |
| 3-4 weeks |
10% |
| After 4 weeks |
No refund |
CoGrammar reserves its right to amend these amounts and/or percentages at any time, at their sole
discretion. Students will be duly notified of any amendments thereto. Students are bound by the
terms of this refund policy.
Disenrollment policy
Introduction
This policy sets out the criteria that come into play that might lead to students facing
disenrollment from their bootcamp.
What does disenrollment mean?
Disenrollment is when a student is removed from their bootcamp due to not adhering to our terms and
conditions policies and the Student Undertaking Agreement that the student will agree to when
starting their bootcamp. Disenrollment does not mean that you will get your money back, we have a
refund policy in place that will align with this policy and will determine if there is any refund
payable.
What do you need to adhere to in order to avoid possible disenrollment?
We require that students abide by our Attendance, Progression, Grading, Plagiarism, Student
Undertaking Agreement and Terms and Conditions policies so that they can make full use of our
resources and facilities, get the most out of our courses, and be fully prepared to enter a
professional programming environment.
Attendance
So what does attendance entail?
Attendance is the time that you spend on our online platform to ensure that you're progressing on
your boot camp.
For online programmes, attendance entails being active on our education support platforms and the
submission of tasks on the student dashboard. Our platform automatically tracks this by capturing
login times and sign-ins to online mentor calls, tutorials and work sessions. On-site attendance is
taken by our lecturers and on-site mentors.
We recommend that you spend at least 8 to 10 hours a day online as a full time student and 4 to 5
hours as a part-time student. We do, however, understand that some students work faster than others
and might not require as much attendance as is recommended. If this is the case then you and your
mentor need to discuss this so that a note can be made on your student profile.
Obviously, if you are behind then the recommended attendance will be what you as a student must
adhere to. If you are not attending, and this shows in your progression rate, you might risk
disenrollment from the bootcamp. If a student falls within the following criteria, they are at risk
of disenrollment:
Study Times
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Online |
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Full-time |
Part-time |
| Required hours of study |
Minimum 40 hours per week. |
Minimum 10 hours per week. |
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If a student is unwilling to resubmit a task that falls under the required 75% task grade, or if
the student resubmits a task that scores under 75% or there was no attempt to apply any of the
recommended changes in their resubmission.
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If a student misses the pre-scheduled check in call with support regarding their upcoming
installment payment or if an online student misses 2 or more scheduled calls with a mentor.
Our responsibility
Our Education Team will motivate and support you all the way but attendance is up to you - we can’t
force you to attend.
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Mentors will be checking in with their students on a weekly basis each Friday and should there be
poor or no attendance for a week, take this up with the student. A note will also be made on your
student file to ensure there is a record of this failure to attend. If there is poor attendance for
a second week then the mentor will hand over the matter to Student Success where the Student Student
Progression Associate (SPA) will reach out to the student to discuss the matter. In the case where a
student has a
sponsor, the sponsor will also be notified.
Should there be renewed commitment from the student (and sponsor where applicable), the SPA will
hand back the matter to the Education Team, where the mentor will assess the student’s progression
and assist in getting them back on track. The mentor will keep in contact with the SPA (and the
sponsor where applicable) to ensure that the student stays on track for the duration of the
bootcamp.
The student's responsibility
The student should ensure that they adhere to the recommended attendance as is set out for their
specific option and mode of study. In cases where attendance is not possible, the student (or the
student’s sponsor) needs to discuss this with their allocated Mentor. In a case where a student is
unable to attend and needs to pause their bootcamp, the necessary pause process needs to be
followed.
This said, students should ensure that they check in with their mentor at least once a week and
should indicate if they will not be attending or active on our education support platforms. Should a
student fall behind in progression on the bootcamp, their mentor will be reaching out to them
to determine why this is happening and intervention might be put in place to ensure that the student
does not fall too far behind. If there is no activity or attendance for more than 2 weeks, then the
student will be handed over to Student Success for further action.
Progression
Task completion determines how you advance through your bootcamp. Each task has an average
completion time that is measured against the duration of your bootcamp.
- Actual progress is the total average completion time of the tasks you’ve completed divided by
the duration of your bootcamp.
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Expected progress is the total average completion time of the tasks you are expected to have
submitted.
Progression is a comparison of your actual progression against your bootcamp’s expected progress. If
your expected progress is 50% and your actual progress is 25%, you would be falling behind by 25%.
You should always aim to stay ahead of schedule as much as you can. Should unexpected events arise
in your personal life, you will have a bit more time to catch up and get back on-track.
With Pause requests, as a standard policy, we do not allow students to take a break or pause at any
point throughout their bootcamp(s). However, we do understand that emergencies happen and that
sometimes a student can be affected by special circumstances beyond control. A pause is therefore
allowed under extenuating circumstances and the conditions listed in our Pause Policy.
It is worthwhile to note that even if a pause is requested, it might not be approved. It is up to
the student to ensure that they plan accordingly should they not be able to pause their bootcamp.
Also note, even if a pause request is approved, it does not mean that payment arrangements will also
be placed on hold - these will go ahead as agreed upon at the start of the bootcamps.
Grading
Reviews
In terms of review, there are two kinds of tasks in our bootcamps, Practical tasks and Auto-graded
tasks.
Practical tasks
Human mentors will review your practical task submissions. Each submission will be scored on a scale
from 1 to 4, using a rubric with the following four elements:
- Completeness,
- Efficiency,
- Style, and
- Documentation
Our facilitators aim to provide actionable, comprehensive, and personalised feedback to support your
learning and professional development. Reading the review feedback will help you get unstuck and
offer you further learning opportunities that ultimately shape the early stages of your career.
Thus, the mentors orient the reviews towards your individualised progress and holistic development
based on your completed work.
The scores you receive on the other elements of the rubric (efficiency, style, and documentation) do
impact your overall final grade; however, your overall bootcamp completion takes priority over
scoring 100% in each task.
The feedback you receive about how you could improve is best applied to your future tasks.
Therefore, if you complete your task scoring at least 3/4 for task completeness, you may not
resubmit.
Auto-graded tasks
When you submit an auto-graded task, you will receive an email with a link to a model answer, as well
as an overview of the approach taken to reach this answer.
Take some time to review and compare your work against the model answer. This exercise will help
solidify your understanding and provide an opportunity for reflection on how to apply these concepts
in future projects.
Our responsibility
We will make sure that our students receive value adding and actionable feedback on their tasks
within the agreed upon turnaround times.
The student’s responsibility
Our students need to make sure they are trying their best to achieve 75% or above for all tasks. If
by the third time they are still not able to complete a task to the required standard or if they
have made no attempt to correct errors that were highlighted by the reviewer or mentor, they shall
be handed over to Student Success for discussion around continuation of their bootcamp.
Academic Integrity
By enrolling in CoGrammar's programmes, you agree to the following terms and conditions regarding
academic integrity:
Definitions
Academic Integrity refers to acting with honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and
responsibility in all academic work.
Academic Misconduct includes but is not limited to:
- Plagiarism: Presenting others' work as your own.
- Recycling: Resubmitting work without required changes.
- Collusion: Unauthorized collaboration on individual assignments.
- Cheating: Copying or having someone else complete your work.
Student Obligation
- You must submit only your own original work for all assignments and tasks.
- You may use provided boilerplate code and scaffolding where applicable.
- You must cite all third-party resources used in your work in a references.txt file.
- You must fully understand any third-party solution before incorporating it into your work.
- You must respect intellectual property rights and comply with all licensing and copyright laws.
Technology Usage
- Artificial intelligence tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, etc.) may be used for learning concepts.
- Learning time with AI must be separate from actual task completion time.
- All AI-assisted work must be fully understood and referenced appropriately.
Collaboration
Collaborative learning through the student community is permitted.
Actual task work must be completed independently unless explicitly instructed otherwise.
Support Resources
You are entitled to submit general queries via CoGrammar support.
You may schedule 1:1 mentor sessions for task-specific help.
You are encouraged to reach out if feeling overwhelmed rather than engaging in misconduct.
Violations and Consequences
Suspected academic misconduct may result in a required synchronous session to discuss your work.
Confirmed academic misconduct will result in the lowest possible score and required resubmission.
Multiple offences may lead to disenrollment at CoGrammar's discretion.
All instances of academic misconduct will be recorded and may affect your standing in the program
Resubmission Requirements
When work is found to violate academic integrity standards, you must redo and resubmit original work.
Graduation from any CoGrammar program requires all submissions to be your own original work.
Terms and Conditions
Any student found not adhering to our terms and conditions will risk immediate disenrollment and
possible permanent expulsion. Decisions will be based on collated data and the specific
circumstances of each specific case. For more information on our Code of Conduct, refer to our Code
of Conduct policy.
Our responsibility
We have made our terms and conditions available on our website as well as other processes and areas
of adherence during onboarding to the bootcamp. We reserve the right to make changes. to these
documents but will ensure to communicate this with our students (and their sponsors).
The student’s responsibility
Our students (and Sponsors) need to make sure they take the time to read through our terms and
conditions. We do not take responsibility for any documentation that was not clearly read as it is
all freely available to our students (and their sponsors).
Intervention
If any of our students are found to fall in one of the above criteria, an intervention will be held
in an attempt to remediate the situation. If the behaviour continues after the intervention, the
student may be disenrolled. This will be at the discretion of CoGrammar.
Where there are allegations of CoGrammar’s staff being at fault, proper investigation of the matter
will take place in accordance with our internal investigations policies and an outcome from this
will then determine the relevant action that will be taken. The outcome determined by the
investigation will be final.
It is important to again note that we have a refund policy in place which will determine if a refund
amount is applicable, and if it is, what that amount will be.
Course Extension
We reserve the right to provide a student with a course extension for 3-12 months. The student will
be liable for a course extension fee, our student finance & collection consultant will advise the
student on this amount that needs to be paid directly to the institution via our card payment
process. Our course extension offer applies to all students on our commercial Bootcamps.
Switching policy and process
Loan-Assisted Student Switch Request
Our loan-assisted students have 10 working days after their Bootcamp start date to request a switch
for the following:
- - Track of their Bootcamp [full-time > part-time or part-time > full-time]
- - Mode of their Bootcamp [on-site > online or online > on-site]
We reserve the right to allocate a new start date for a student who requests to switch Bootcamps. The
loan-assisted student will be liable to pay the switch administration fee, our student finance &
collection consultant will advise the student on the switch administration fee. Switch
administration fees need to be paid directly to the institution via our card payment process.
Emergency pause policy terms & conditions
Our Bootcamps run on a fixed schedule for three to six (3-6) months full-time (with the latter only
being for the Immersive bootcamp) and six to twelve (6-12) months part-time (with the latter only
being for the Immersive), either online or onsite. We aim to maintain consistent cohort progress and
a stable student community at all times. Therefore, as a standard policy, we do not allow students
to take a break/leave/holiday at any point during their bootcamp enrolment period.
The Emergency Pause Policy is only intended for use in genuine personal emergencies. It remains the
student's (or sponsor's) responsibility to ensure that they keep up to date with their work and plan
to ensure they are able to continue their studies in the face of commonplace challenges (e.g.
hardware or software problems, loss of Internet connectivity, etc). We recognise that sometimes in
the course of regular life, students face various challenges and begin to fall behind or become
overwhelmed; in these circumstances the correct procedure is for the student to reach out to our Student Success
department, which will assist
them in organising academic support to help them cope and catch up. Emergency Pauses are considered
under the following conditions:
In the case of a medical emergency where the student is unable to work, the student may submit a
concession request, with appropriate supporting documentation. In the case of a death or serious
illness in the immediate family, the student may submit a concession request; here, a death
certificate would be required as supporting documentation. All Emergency Pause requests will be
considered on merit on a case-by-case basis. In some cases, provisional approval may be granted,
contingent on the receipt of appropriate supporting documentation within a period specified to the
student. Where provisional approval is granted but supporting documentation is not forthcoming
within a period of 30 days, the Emergency Pause will be considered not to have been granted, but the
administration fee will be not waived. All Emergency Pause requests are to be submitted through this
form
(https://forms.gle/nnE6yDSjtkvBwxFG7) or
processing by the
Student Success team.
CoGrammar reserves the right of sole discretion in all decisions relating to an Emergency Pause,
or any other sort of extension.
Note that, should the student’s Emergency Pause request be approved:
written approval from a member of the CoGrammar Support team will be provided (to avoid any
miscommunication, no Emergency Pause request will be considered to have been granted without this
and so it is vital for you as a student to ensure that you receive it, and save it to a safe place);
an administration fee of 5% of the full course tuition is due within 48 hours of approval; any pause
taken without prior written approval from a member of the CoGrammar Support team will be
considered invalid and your support for the duration of the requested period will lapse
Ordinarily, no student may request an Emergency Pause within one week (7 working days) of beginning
a bootcamp, or during the Immersive bootcamp. In a case where this is unavoidable (e.g. a death in
the immediate family), the student’s start date will automatically be pushed out and they will be
advised to start their bootcamp afresh with the next cohort. This provision applies to both online
and onsite students
If an Emergency Pause is approved, the maximum pause period granted will be one month (30 days). If
the student does not return to their studies after this period, they will be disenrolled from the
bootcamp.
If an Emergency Pause is granted for an onsite full-time student, they will only be allowed back
onto campus when the next cohort immediately after the student’s enrolled cohort reaches the point
the student was at, when the Emergency Pause was instituted. This is to ensure the student returns
to a position where their progress is aligned with the campus schedule of lectures for their
bootcamp, so that they can resume their studies at the appropriate point.
For students paying monthly installments, an Emergency Pause will not result in a pause of
installments or a payment holiday.
If disenrollment occurs, the student shall still be liable for any outstanding tuition fees. This is
applicable to both online and onsite students.
Students may not request an Emergency Pause more than once within the same bootcamp enrolment
period.
Availing discounts
You may only avail a maximum of one discount or promotional offer at any given time. Discounts may
not be combined with any other ongoing offer/promotion/discount.
All Bootcamp purchases made as part of a promotion, discount, or special offer are non-refundable.
This policy applies to all promotional sales, regardless of the type or duration of the promotion.
By purchasing a Bootcamp under a promotion, the buyer acknowledges and agrees to this no-refund
condition.