[ARCHIVED] Selling my course

[john16]

I created an online course that I'm selling through my website. Can I put that course on Canvas Free for Teachers and enroll my students? I'm not selling it through Canvas, but rather through my website. I'm only using the Canvas to host  the course.

[scottdennis · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

There isn't anything in the terms of service of Free for Teachers that would prevent you from making a profit on content you house in the platform.

Thanks

[john16]

What about this area (emphasis added):

CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS. The rights granted to you in the Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) you shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, reproduce, distribute, host or otherwise commercially exploit the Instructure Properties, (b) you shall not use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other Instructure Properties; (c) you shall not use any metatags or other “hidden text” using Instructure’s name or trademarks; (d) you shall not modify, translate, adapt, merge, make derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Instructure Properties except to the extent the foregoing restrictions are expressly prohibited by applicable law; (e) you shall not use any manual or automated software, devices, or other processes (including but not limited to spiders, robots, scrapers, crawlers, avatars, data mining tools, or the like) to “scrape” or download data from any web pages contained in the Website; (f) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Instructure Properties may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means; and (g) you shall not remove or destroy any copyright notices or other proprietary markings contained on or in the Instructure Properties. Any future release, update or other addition to the Instructure Properties shall be subject to the Terms. Instructure, its suppliers and service providers reserve all rights not granted in the Terms. Any unauthorized use of the Instructure Properties terminates the licenses granted by Instructure pursuant to the Terms.

[scottdennis]

Hi John,

This question comes up from time to time in the forums so we have had occasion to review these terms with our legal team pretty thoroughly.  I can make a profit from courses that you create or house in Free for Teacher.  What you cannot do is represent yourself as an agent of Instructure, co-opt our brand, or misuse copyrighted content that you gain access to in our web properties.  Does that make sense?

[john16]

I think it does. Here is a use case: 

I have clients that I want to offer training and support for going online. In that training, I'm going to use Canvas (paid). However, the clients (schools) want to make their own courses. Obviously, I can't let them sell their courses through my Canvas paid account. And they can't afford the Canvas paid account. They sell courses which will be blended (half online and half online). Therefore, after they go through my training courses, I'm going to recommend that they start a course using Free to Teachers version of Canvas. They will put their online parts of their school programs on Canvas Free to Teach. Does that make sense? 

Thanks,

John

[scottdennis]

Makes sense to me.   

[Cwilsonflipped1]

I would like to create a course that details how to use specific features of Canvas for a  group of teachers. The course would be housed in a different platform but specificwould instruct users how to effectively use Canvas for their classrooms via screen recordings. I would also like to create templates in Canvas and provide them as an import option for users who purchase my course. Is this allowed?