01 · Pricing
Build a tool and share it with any course for free. When courses should pay for yours, set a price and Voshi publishes it, the way a publisher would: billing, payouts, and the contracts behind them.
02 · Choose what fits your tool
Free tools
Build tools for your own courses and share them with any instructor at no charge. As long as no one is being charged for use of your tool, Voshi is free to use.
Voshi provides free infrastructure as an educational service. Free use of the platform must be within reasonable use.
Paid tools
When your tool is ready to charge for use, you choose the price. Most tools cost $10–$40 per student; advanced tools and simulations might charge more.
Prices are given as examples, not as a floor or a ceiling. Different tools should price differently. Voshi looks at a price only when something seems off.
03 · How payment works
At most universities, students pay for the platform and tool on their first launch to the platform. It works much like buying a textbook — the way MyEducator has processed payments since 2011.
Voshi also works at universities with universal access and at online universities with included textbooks.
Voshi and the builder split revenue from paid tools 70% and 30%. You wrote the tool; Voshi publishes it: hosting, security, accessibility, contracts, students, payments.
04 · What Voshi's share supports
The moment a tool leaves your laptop and enters a course, it's no longer just a project. It's now a vendor. It handles student names and grades, so it answers to FERPA and to the university's security office. It must work with a screen reader, so it can be accessible to all. It goes through procurement, which is its own quest. It needs to be up at 2 a.m. the night before a deadline, someone to answer the student whose payment failed, and a refund policy. Then the next university asks for all of it again, using its processes and standards.
That's the publisher's job, and that's what we do. Day after day, for every tool.
See all 99 requirements05 · A different kind of tool?
If your tool is different from the norm, contact Voshi with questions or requests.
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