For Season 3 the Steemit Crypto Academy is evolving.
To cater for a wider audience we are introducing three levels - Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.
To make the transition to this new system easier, the first Beginners introductory courses will be launched this week. The rest of the Beginners courses, along with the Intermediate and Advanced courses, will follow over the next week or so.
Each of the three levels will have different entry requirements, different rewards and different Professors.
The Beginners Level
The Beginners Level will consist of six fixed Introductory posts, and two variable posts each week.
To participate in the Beginners courses students will need to have a minimum reputation of 50 and at least 125 Steem Power of their own (not delegated to them).
Homework posts with a grade of at least 5 out of 10 will receive a percentage vote from @steemcurator02 (4 million SP) of 1 x the grade. For example for a grade of 7 out 10 a post will receive a 7% vote.
Anyone meeting the minimum reputation and SP requirements can do any or all of the Beginners level homework tasks - both the fixed Introductory posts and the weekly variable posts.
The Introductory posts can only be attempted once.
The Professors setting and grading the Beginners courses will be @awesononso (Nigeria) and @lenonmc21 (Venezuela) working as one pair, and @reminiscence01 (Nigeria) and @wahyunahrul (Indonesia) working as the other pair.
The Intermediate Level
The Intermediate Level will have three variable posts each week.
To participate in the Intermediate courses students will need to have a minimum reputation of 55 and at least 250 Steem Power of their own (not delegated to them).
Homework posts with a grade of at least 5 out of 10 will receive a percentage vote from @steemcurator02 (4 million SP) of 2 x the grade. For example for a grade of 7 out 10 a post will receive a 14% vote.
Anyone meeting the minimum reputation and SP requirements can do any or all of the Intermediate level homework tasks.
The Professors setting and grading the Intermediate courses will be @imagen (Venezuela) and @pelon53 (Venezuela) working as one pair, @yousafharoonkhan (Pakistan) and @yohan2on (Uganda) working as another pair, and @asaj (Ukraine) and @allbert (Venezuela) as the third pair.
The Advanced Level
The Advanced Level will have two variable posts each week.
To participate in the Advanced courses students will need to have a minimum reputation of 60 and at least 500 Steem Power of their own (not delegated to them).
Homework posts with a grade of at least 5 out of 10 will receive a percentage vote from @steemcurator02 (4 million SP) of 3 x the grade. For example for a grade of 7 out 10 a post will receive a 21% vote.
The Professors setting and grading the Advanced courses will be @sapwood (India) and @stream4u (India) working as one pair, and @kouba01 (Tunisia) and @cryptokraze (Pakistan)
working as the other pair.
@abcallen will continue producing courses specifically for the Chinese community.
Additional Rewards
As well as the standard @steemcurator02 votes on qualifying homework posts there will be two additional reward options for the best students.
Every week each pair of Professors will nominate their best 3 Students of the Week. These students will receive additional 10% votes from @steemcurator01.
At the end of the season the three students who have performed best with the most number of homework posts and the highest average grades will be selected as the ‘Season SuperStars’ and will receive 50% votes from @steemcurator01.
One student will be chosen from each of the three levels.
We hope you will all enjoy this new three level expansion of the Crypto Academy.
It is experimental so there will likely need to be tweaks as the weeks progress. Make sure you check @steemitblog regularly for any changes to the rules.
People are welcome to do as many homework tasks each week as they are qualified for. They can also move up a level as they grow their reputation and SP.
Have fun and learn !
The Steemit Team