Book a lecture

Book from your dashboard, with Book a lecture. We create the YouTube live event within about a minute.

Before you can book, you need a confirmed email address, the LinkedIn step, and an agency. Become a tutor shows how to set up each one. Only channels that are open for booking are listed.

What you choose

Field	What to know
Subject channel	One of the 12 channels: 11 subjects, plus Other for anything else.
Date and Start	In your time zone.
Length	10 to 120 minutes.
Lesson from your course	Optional. The lesson this lecture teaches.
Title	Shown on YouTube. Up to 100 characters.
Schedule label	Optional. Up to 30 characters, shown on the schedule where space is short. Without one, the schedule shows the start of your title. You can change it later in Lectures.
Description	Shown on YouTube. Say what you’ll teach, and who it’s for. Up to about 4,900 bytes, and the counter shows how much is left.
Before you join and Notes from you	Optional. Up to 2,000 characters each. What learners should bring or know, and anything else.
Picture	Shown on the lecture’s card and page, not on YouTube. See The picture.

YouTube doesn’t accept < or > in titles and descriptions.

The picture

Every lecture has a picture on its card and its page. Choose one of three:

• Automatic. We choose one of the channel’s photos for you. A lesson from a course shows the course’s picture instead, if the course has one.
• One of the channel’s photos. Each channel has its own set of 10: photos of the subject, never anyone’s face.
• Your own. A JPEG, PNG, or WebP of at least 960 × 600 pixels. We cut it to 16:10, the shape of the card. It must be yours to share: no advertising for another organisation, such as a logo or a sponsor’s banner, and no one else’s face without their permission. A brand name that’s simply on the things you teach with, such as a laptop, is fine.

We check your own picture before learners see it, usually in a few seconds. If it breaks a rule, we tell you which, and you can choose another. Sometimes our team checks it as well, usually within a day. Until then, the lecture keeps the picture it had.

You can change the picture any time in Lectures, with Change beside it. A course has a picture too, in Courses. Its lessons’ lectures show it, unless you choose one for a lecture. Our team removes a picture that breaks the rules, and the lecture then shows another one.

The rules

• Book at least 15 minutes ahead.
• One lecture per tutor per day (UTC). A lecture belongs to the UTC day it starts on. A lecture you’ve taught still holds its day. Only a cancelled lecture frees it.
• Up to 8 lectures at once on each channel. The form shows how many of the 8 places are taken at the busiest moment of your time.
• Cancel more than 48 hours before the start. After that, the lecture is locked. A booking made less than 48 hours ahead is locked at once, so the form asks you to confirm. Lectures shows each lecture’s cancel deadline.
• You agree to the teaching rules, and to Telureo broadcasting your lecture and keeping the recording.
• A late start is allowed, but the end doesn’t move. With no stream by the booked end, the lecture didn’t take place and scores nothing.

If a booking isn’t possible, the form says why, and Book this lecture stays off. That happens when the time is too soon, the channel is full at that time, or you already have a lecture that UTC day.

On the schedule

Every lecture shows your picture. In the brief view, at the 15-minute and 30-minute intervals, it also shows your schedule label, or the start of your title, when the lecture is long enough:

• 25 minutes or more at the 15-minute interval
• 35 minutes or more at the 30-minute interval

At the 1-hour and 2-hour intervals, the brief view shows only your picture. The detailed view adds your full title, the time, and your name wherever there’s room. Learners see the full details, with the time, when they point at a lecture.