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The routing rule

We do not host heavy video, and we do not lock your course inside one platform. Your course page here carries the title, level, your profile, the outcomes, the access buttons, the scholarship link, and the community link. Everything else lives on your platform, in your account, under your control. That keeps our costs near zero and keeps your work yours.

The Short Answer

If You Do Not Want to Think About It

Teaching a 101

YouTube public playlist for the lessons, Discord open channel for questions, a public Drive folder for worksheets. Add a monthly Zoom Q&A if you enjoy live. That is a complete, free, accessible course, and it costs you nothing.

Teaching a 200

Vimeo password-protected or YouTube unlisted for lessons, registered Zoom for weekly live sessions, a private verified Discord channel for the cohort, and a restricted Drive folder for materials. HMU verifies enrollment and grants access.

The Platforms

What Each One Is Actually Good At

YouTube
Best for: 101 lectures, evergreen teaching, anything you want found.

Access: Public at 101; unlisted or members-only at 200+.

Why: Enormous reach, free hosting, auto-captions and translation, works on any device and any connection.
Watch out for: ads on your lessons if the channel is monetized, and auto-captions that mangle trade terms — review them.
Zoom
Best for: Live instruction, workshops, office hours, capstone reviews.

Access: Open link at 101; registered and password-protected at 200+.

Why: Real-time back and forth, breakout rooms, easy recording for students who work shifts.
Always: record and post it — attendance should never be what separates students.
Discord
Best for: The class community — questions between lessons, study groups, peer help, office hours.
Access: Open channels at 101; private role-gated channels at 200+.
Why: It is where the conversation lives after the video ends, and students help each other there more than you will.

Needs: a moderator and posted rules. We will help you set both up.
Twitch
Best for: Live demonstration — coding, design work, shop and trades explanation, anything better watched than described.

Access: Public streams at 101; subscriber-only at 200+.

Why: Live chat while you work, and the archive is reusable.

Watch out for: archives expiring — export anything you want to keep.
TikTok & Shorts
Best for: Micro-lessons, one tip, encouragement, and finding students who did not know this existed.
Access: Always free and public. Never gate a clip.
Why: This is our front door. A sixty-second answer to a real question brings people to the full course.
Always: point back to the course page.
Vimeo
Best for: Premium 200+ libraries where you want a clean, ad-free, distraction-free player.
Access: Password-protected and domain-restricted.

Why: Strong privacy controls and a professional presentation.

Watch out for: it costs money and reaches nobody on its own — it is delivery, not discovery.
Notion & Drive
Best for: Syllabi, worksheets, checklists, slides, tool lists, reading.

Access: Public link at 101; restricted at 200+.

Why: Easy to update without re-recording anything.

Always: provide a PDF version too — it works offline and prints.
Something else
Teaching on a platform not listed here, or on your own site? That is fine. Tell the Office of the Dean what it is and how access works at each level, and we will wire your course page to it. The only requirements are that students can reach it free at 101, and that we can verify enrollment at 200+.
Access by Level

The Rule, Stated Once

Same content quality at every level. Different access rights. That is the entire model.

101 — Free and Open $0

Public platforms. No login, no email wall, no trial.

  • YouTube public, TikTok, open Zoom
  • Open Discord channels
  • Public Drive or Notion materials
  • Anyone can reach it, from anywhere
  • No certificate at this level
200 — Enrolled $14.99 / month

HMU verifies enrollment and grants access.

  • Vimeo password-protected or YouTube unlisted
  • Registered Zoom, subscriber-only Twitch
  • Private verified Discord channels
  • Restricted materials folder
  • Certificate eligible
300 — Mastery Varies

Priced per course; you are compensated directly.

  • Small private cohorts
  • Direct mentorship and capstone review
  • Access arranged with you case by case
  • Price disclosed up front, always

Scholarship students look identical

You will not be told which students are on scholarship. They get the same access, the same channels, and the same feedback. That is deliberate and it is not negotiable.

Housekeeping

Naming and Links

  • Name playlists for the course: "AI 101 — Course Title — Hope MetaVersity". Students find them out of context all the time.
  • Number your lessons in the title. "Lesson 3 of 8 — ..." Platforms reorder things; students should never have to guess the sequence.
  • Link back to your course page in every description, pinned comment, and clip caption.
  • Send us permanent links, not links that expire or rotate.
  • Tell us when a link changes. A dead button on a course page costs us a student who was already nervous about clicking.
What We Need From You

To Build Your Course Page

  • The finished syllabus — 101 or 200.
  • Your lesson platform link, and the community link if you have one.
  • Your materials folder link.
  • A photo of you, and three or four sentences on what you did in this field.
  • The live session cadence, if any.

Send it all to the Office of the Dean and we will build the course page and your profile, then send you both to review before anything goes public.

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