You may listen to personnel and not jeopardize your progress. Your advisor can help you obtain the correct answers. You are ultimately responsible for meeting all requirements, so to trust heresay is to be at the mercy of everyone. People in the credentials office will help you keep your file. They know many things.
Some rumors are true.
If not, check with your advisor. Your advisor does not know everything either. Check what they tell you too, with the staff in the credentials office or at Kern County Offfice or at the state. If things do not check, write down what you were told, get the party who told you to SIGN your notes, and bring them immediately to your advisor for checking. Anyone can take an education course.