What is the class?

Give it a name, and say how people will take it.

How will people take this class?

A telephone call — they give a number, PAuL rings it, and the slides follow along in a browser tab. Works from a car, a walk, a phone with no laptop near it. In the browser, in writing — the deck on one side, PAuL teaching in writing on the other. They read at their own pace and type questions. No phone, no microphone, nothing to dial.

This is how the class starts out. The material is the same either way, so you can teach a class a different way later without building it again.

What is the class called? Describe it — optional. This is what people you invite will read.

A sentence or two, written for whoever is going to sit in. It is the only thing besides the name that a guest sees, so say what they will get out of it. This is not the objective in step 3 — that one is an instruction to PAuL and stays between you and PAuL.

Number to call

How long? minutes

Between 5 and 180 minutes. PAuL paces the class to fill it.

What should PAuL teach from?

The slides PAuL presents, and everything else PAuL should know when someone asks a question.

Where do the slides come from?

I have a deck — a real presentation, exported as a PDF. PAuL teaches it page by page, and what attendees see is exactly what you made. PAuL builds the deck — hand over the document, notes or recording instead, and PAuL writes slides to fill the time you booked, then teaches from those. Use this when what you have is source material rather than a presentation.

The deck — PDF only

Choose the slides

Supporting material — what PAuL answers questions from

Choose files

Pick them one at a time or all at once — they add up, they do not replace each other.

Documents PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, HTML · up to 40 MB each. PowerPoint speaker notes are read too.
Recordings MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM · up to 2 GB each. The speech is transcribed and becomes part of what PAuL knows — an hour of video takes under three minutes. Past roughly two hours of talking, the later material stops being used.
Images PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP · diagrams and screenshots are described and added as notes.
Anything else is left out, and the class will tell you which files it skipped.

Reference links — optional. Pages PAuL reads for the class.

One web address per line, up to twelve. Each page is opened in a browser and read once while the class is built, pictures and all. What you upload above decides what gets taught and in what order; the pages support it — their facts, examples and specifics go into what PAuL says, and they answer the questions your own material does not settle. When PAuL builds the slides, a picture from a page can go on the slide it illustrates, with the page credited. PAuL reads the page you point at, does not wander off it, and never browses during the call. Sites that ask not to be read are left alone, and anything unreachable or too long to fit is listed on the class afterwards.

How should PAuL run it?

All of this has a sensible default. Change what matters and build.

Which voice? — PAuL keeps the name whichever you pick Objective — optional. What should this class actually cover?

Leave it empty and PAuL teaches the whole deck. Fill it in and PAuL narrows the session to that, using everything else you upload as background for questions. Other examples: “Only the roof section of the birdhouse build.” · “Focus on what changed in the new release; assume they know the old one.” · “Aim it at sales engineers, not developers.” Changing it later means building the class again.

What is the class?

What should PAuL teach from?

How should PAuL run it?

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