Hi there!
If you’re a teacher, professor, or educator looking to use College Info Geek resources in the classroom, this page is for you.
Here you’ll find downloadable electronic versions of my book 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less). You’ll also find downloadable versions of nearly all my videos (everything except vlogs), which you’re free to download and use in the classroom.
Regarding use of my book and videos, feel free to:
- Download and play them in class (I know some classrooms have limited or no internet access, which makes playing the videos directly from YouTube untenable)
- Distribute the book to your students
- Include them in Learning Management Systems (see note about limitations below)
- Include them in online classes (see note about limitations below)
Main limitation:
- To use my content for free, you should be an educator in direct contact with your students. If you’re creating supplemental materials for educators (such as textbooks), then please contact me to talk about licensing.
- If your use case involves distributing any of my content in a non-live, non-in-person format (i.e. not playing it in a classroom) to more than 500 students during the course of one academic period (semester, trimester, etc), then please contact me about licensing.
- For example, if you represent a textbook publisher and would like to include my content in an electronic textbook, then that would be a use case which would require licensing.
- Note that the above limitations apply for downloading and hosting my content. Any use case that involves using YouTube’s embedding tools does not require licensing, nor permission. You’re free to embed videos wherever you want 🙂
Please do not:
- Re-upload any videos to YouTube, Facebook, or any other publicly accessible site. If your use case involves a publicly accessible resource, please use YouTube’s embedding tools instead.
- Re-upload the book to any publicly accessible site. Anyone in the world can download 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades for free from this page. Please limit distribution of the book files to email, LMS, or other limited-access sites (this is mainly to prevent non-official download links from popping up on Google)
- Sell access to my videos/book, or use them as a selling point for any sort of course or class. The whole point of making these resources available is so that they’re more accessible and useful to students who could benefit from them. So please don’t do anything that isn’t in that spirit 🙂
Can I Edit the Videos?
I would prefer if no substantial edits were made to my videos. However, if you would like to cut the ends of the videos off before the sponsor messages start (for the ones that have sponsors), feel free to do that.
The video downloads here are provided exactly as they are on YouTube, and I’m unable to take any editing requests myself.
How Should I Credit You?
Thanks for asking!
I’m much more interested in students benefiting from this content than in being credited, so in situations where it’s difficult to provide a written credit (such as playing a video in class), don’t worry too much about it 🙂
If you are able and willing to credit me, my most preferred method would be for you to link to the video’s companion article here on College Info Geek. Most of my videos have one, and many of them are a full-fledged text version of the video – some of them are even more detailed than the video itself. Additionally, linking to articles on College Info Geek really helps out their search engine rankings!
To make things easy, I’ve included a link to each video’s companion article next to its download link below.
For the videos that don’t have companion articles – or in the case that you can’t include a link to College Info Geek for some reason – a link to the original video on YouTube is appreciated.
Anything Else I Should Know About?
Yep!
First, if you like, you can join the College Info Geek Instructor group on Facebook. This a group I created specifically to enable educators to come together, share tips, and communicate with me. Feel free to offer feedback and suggest video topics.
Second, if you do end up using these resources in your classroom, I’d love to hear about it! You can use the Facebook group above, or hit me up on Twitter at @TomFrankly if that’s more your speed. And of course, no obligation.
Lastly, if you have questions that this page doesn’t answer, you can contact me here.
Download the Book
Use the links below the download electronic versions of 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades:
- PDF version (for reading on a computer)
- EPUB version (for reading on iPhones/iPads in iBooks and other non-Kindle readers)
- Kindle version
Each of these links will take you to a book file hosted on Google Drive. Click the download icon on the page that comes up in order to download the file.
Want print versions?
A print version of 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades can be found right here on Amazon. However, I’ve been told by bookstore purchasing agents that it can be bought in bulk for a cheaper price elsewhere. I’ll do some digging to see if I can provide links to those sources; until then, I’d recommend asking your school bookstore’s purchasing agent and/or your librarian if they know where you can get a bulk-buying discount.
Note: The publishing and distribution rights to the upcoming audiobook version of my book are owned by Brilliance Audio, so I’m unable to authorize the distribution of it. However, the electronic versions of the book will ALWAYS be freely available for download here on CIG.
Download the Videos
Below, you’ll find download links to the videos, along with links to their companion articles and original YouTube versions.
Note that it costs us money to host these files and make them available for download. If you’re interested in watching my content for general entertainment, please do so at my YouTube channel. Otherwise, download away!
Click here to access the video download links
Eventually we’ll have a really pretty, easily-searched archive of all videos right here on CIG. But in the interest of being agile, I’m adding all the video links to a Google Doc for now.
Looking for Crash Course Study Skills Downloads?
The Study Skills course that produced with the Crash Course team is owned by them; however, they’ve also made all of their content available for classroom use as well! Here’s the link to download the Study Skills videos on their site.