The settlement called for Caltech and an outside partner, Simplilearn, to change how they advertised the boot camp, adding new restrictions that threatened the program’s allure.

After lawsuit said Caltech misled students about a cybersecurity 'boot camp' that had minimal ties to the school, Caltech said it would drop the online course partner, Simplilearn.

They interpreted language like “powered by Simplilearn” as an expression of the technology platform they would be using, not as a signal that a company representative would be teaching.