Does Coursera train on your data?
Coursera wrote a whole "How We Use AI" section listing nine AI features, and never says whether your work trains them. Its terms do forbid you from training on Coursera.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"Use any content, data, or text in any form in the Services for text or data mining purposes, or develop or train any application, software, code, or data models including but not limited to generative artificial intelligence or other artificial intelligence and machine learning models irrespective of the purposes whether commercial or non-commercial."
- 17 Aug 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All learners
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 27B30C51…4EF9
Why this is still UNCLEAR: This is not an oversight of a company that has not thought about AI. The privacy notice devotes a section, "How We Use AI", to naming what the features are and what they do — dubbing, flashcards, roleplay, peer review, assessment generation, proctoring, two chatbots — and grouping them by purpose. It discloses that AI may affect your grade and that you can elect a human grader instead, which is a real and unusually specific protection. What it never says, anywhere, is whether the assignments, forum posts and answers you submit are used to train those models. The only place either document takes a position on training is the clause quoted here, and it points at you: learners may not train models on Coursera's content. The obligation runs one way.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Not established
- Not stated
- —
- —
- Not established
How to opt out of Coursera AI training
Plan by plan, from what Coursera's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All learners
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. This is not an oversight of a company that has not thought about AI. The privacy notice devotes a section, "How We Use AI", to naming what the features are and what they do — dubbing, flashcards, roleplay, peer review, assessment generation, proctoring, two chatbots — and grouping them by purpose. It discloses that AI may affect your grade and that you can elect a human grader instead, which is a real and unusually specific protection. What it never says, anywhere, is whether the assignments, forum posts and answers you submit are used to train those models. The only place either document takes a position on training is the clause quoted here, and it points at you: learners may not train models on Coursera's content. The obligation runs one way.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Coursera's documents since 13 Aug 2026 and re-read them since, across 4 captures of 3 documents. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the documents, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Vendor response
We wrote to Coursera on 25 Aug 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
Report a wrong clause