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by nanna 2134 days ago
A very exciting project and, as a somewhat alienated university instructor I'll be spending time thinking about it's possible uses for me. A couple comments though.

1. 'Sell your class on Zoom' is a total turn-off for me. As is 'Schedule. Meet. Bill.' As a teacher I do not 'sell' education - I'm not a Sophist ;) - I teach, and for that I would ideally like to get paid, but this is not a conventional commodity-based transaction and so the language of sales is jarring. Partly this is semantic, 'sell' may work for wine tasting instructors but not for humanities tutors. But also partly the issue is that I may not want to sell my teaching. Perhaps I am gaining experience, and want to set up a model class, to build experience and confidence?

2. I don't understand why Zoom needs to be so tightly integrated. This isn't just a classic HN comment about Zoom, it's the fact that there's already an excellent learning environment called BigBlueButton out there and it's Jitsi based. Have you considered integrating that?