Study.com (SDC) WARNING - new credit/exam policy change

[Merlin]

Personally, I'd rather see SDC implement a 5 exam per month policy if the alternative is that colleges stop accepting their credits. This actually happened to Shmoop last year because someone completed a ton of courses in a short period of time and submitted them to TESU. TESU flagged this as suspicious activity and then stopped accepting all credits from Shmoop. They still don't accept any Shmoop credits and likely never will.

If I understand the Shmoop situation correctly, someone took non-proctored exams at Shmoop and transferred them to TESU. This caused the issue. 

SDC - all exams are proctored. If I am taking the exams while being proctored, why does it make a difference how many I can take each day/week/month?

Then it's admitting someone is only smart enough to take X number of proctored exams each month otherwise it becomes suspicious. This rationale makes no sense. 

an example, I can go take 10 CLEP exams in two weeks, and there wouldn't be an issue of possible suspicious activity, so why would there be an issue from another provider like SDC?

It has nothing to do with proctoring. Shmoop added proctoring and TESU still refused to accept their credits. It's about too many courses appearing on a transcript in a short period of time. From the perspective of accreditation, this calls into question the academic integrity of the school and how rigorous their academic programs are.

You don't know that completing 10 CLEP exams in 2 weeks isn't considered questionable behavior. Others have done it, but we don't know how intense the level of scrutiny is on these accelerated degree programs.

My suspicion is that the schools are just trying to be cautious since alternative education like ACE and CLEP is nontraditional and if it looks too easy to get, that could cause problems if some boundaries aren't put in place.