Online courses dishonest practices that a physical school would have trouble carrying out.

That school seems to be getting in trouble, as it ought to. But the article does not mention the injustice that most people won't recognize: making people run nonfree software and get ephemeral access to what they are supposed to learn from. I doubt any watchdogs are going to investigate that.

I hope you have the wisdom to reject opportunities to "learn" that way.