How It Works: From Enrollment Letter to Certificate of Completion

Pick the course and the hours your paperwork names, enter your legal name and email, and pay. That's all we ask for.

The minute your payment goes through, your enrollment letter (PDF) is in your inbox and your dashboard. It confirms your name, the course, the hours and your enrollment date, lists the topics, explains how the course is time-tracked, and gives your officer an enrollment ID to check online.

Send it to your officer the same day.

Each course hour is one lesson. Every lesson has:

• a short real-life story,
• plain-English explanations (8th-grade reading level) that work on a phone,
• a short animated video explainer with captions, plus illustrations,
• 2–3 short exercises — sliders, sorting, "what would you do" scenarios,
• a private journal prompt (your officer never sees what you write),
• 5 key takeaways and a 5-question quiz. Pass with 80% to unlock the next lesson. Retake as often as you need.

Works on a phone. Your place is saved after every screen.

Your certificate says a number of hours. Our timer is how we stand behind it.

• It counts active time only — reading, scrolling, watching or listening to the lesson video, doing exercises.
• It pauses after a few minutes with no activity and asks, "Are you still here?"
• It's logged on our server, session by session, with the date and length. That log is what your progress report and certificate are built from.
• It never makes you wait. If you finish a lesson before its hour is up, you get extra practice — more scenarios, more exercises — and that time counts. No staring at a clock.
• Your dashboard always shows "4:12 of 8:00 hours logged."

The final test opens once your hours are complete.

Retake it as many times as you need — you get a fresh set of questions each time. Your best score goes on your certificate.

Before we issue it, you confirm the spelling of your name. Need a fix later? One correction is free.

Your certificate shows:

• your full legal name,
• the course name ("Anger Management" or "Impulse Control & Decision Making") and hours,
• "Self-paced online educational course, time-verified",
• start and completion dates,
• your final test result,
• a certificate ID, a QR code and a short fingerprint code,
• our contact details for officers,
• the line "Acceptance is determined by the referring court or agency."

No extra fee to download it. A mailed paper copy is available as an option.

Many courts want your case number, court name or date of birth on the certificate. There are blank fields for them on your PDF. You fill them in in your browser, on your own device. They are never sent to us, never stored, and never shown on the verification page.

We also never ask what happened or why you're taking the class. Privacy policy →

Your officer scans the QR code or goes to goodstandingcourses.com/verify, enters the certificate ID and your last name, and sees: your name, the course, hours, dates, test result and status. If someone edits the numbers on the PDF, they won't match the screen.

You can also download a progress report any time before you finish — hours logged, lessons completed, quiz results, session dates — and send it to your officer.

Information for probation officers →

If your court, judge or probation officer doesn't accept your certificate, we refund 100% of the course fee. Read the refund terms →

Anger Management Impulse Control & Decision Making