Top Marks is an online educational marketplace where smart, talented educators like you are invited to join and share your expertise. The courses available here are classified into two main categories:
a) Class Courses – Traditional academic courses like math & science.
b) Art & Craft

• Courses – In diverse categories like, sewing, knitting, crochet, paper craft etc.
• Patterns – In the same categories.

We have requirements in both the course categories. If you are interested, please send us an interest by selecting the appropriate category and filling up the respective form. Please include your relevant experience details and share links of your prior work. Once your application is reviewed, our team will get in touch with you over email/ phone and take it forward.

This site gives you an even opportunity to share your knowledge and skills with eager learners and crafters. At the same time, it will also be financially very rewarding. For each student subscribing to your course you will be receiving a fee. Your work will be visible to a wide pool of ever-increasing students, with unrestricted subscription of your lectures.

Classes

In a Class course a topic is explained in detail through a series of video lectures. Each lecture is accompanied by a series of reference slides and a set of practice question & answers with solution. You can also refer a popular published textbook that will supplement your course lectures.
The Class courses should be aligned to the curriculum guidelines set by the major educational boards in our country.
The course lesson video guidelines are as follows:
The lecture videos will be a combination of talking head and screencast. Animations to explain a concept will be preferred but is not mandatory. The duration of each of the video lectures will not be more than 25 minutes. The first video in the lecture series will serve as the preview to the course and will be free to all learners to watch. The video quality should be 720p or higher. There should not be any distracting background. The audio should be loud and clear. The course lesson reference slide guidelines are as follows: The image slides associated with a course lecture should be of original content. The format can be text only, graphs and diagrams, images with overlaying text etc. They must be relevant to the lecture and ideally should explain concepts discussed in the lecture in more detail.
The course lesson practice question, answer and solution guidelines are as follows:
The questions associated with the lectures should be relevant to the content and must be original. They should not match the contents of any published book or the course contents of other educational institutions including online portals. It must strictly be original in content.

Art & Craft Course

The course lesson video guidelines are as follows:
The lecture videos will be a combination of talking head and screencast. Animations to explain a concept will be preferred but is not mandatory. The duration of each of the video lectures will not be more than 35 to 40 minutes. The first video in the lecture series will serve as the preview to the course and will be free to all learners to watch. The finished art & craft piece created following the steps and techniques outlined in course should ideally be shown in the preview video to garner interest. The video quality should be 720p or higher. There should not be any distracting background. The audio should be loud and clear.
The course lesson reference slides are as follows:
The image slides associated with a course lecture should be of original content. The format can be text only, images and diagrams or images with overlaying text. They must be relevant to the topic taught and illustrate concepts and techniques discussed in the lectures. One of the images in the preview lecture slides should display the original piece created using the course guidelines.

Art & Craft Pattern

Art & Craft Pattern will have a series of image slides. The slides are mainly to illustrate the steps and tools required to create the pattern. One of the slides should also show the final product made from the pattern. The tools and materials required for implementing the pattern will also be listed in detail below the images for the user to see. The actual pattern with the detailed steps and techniques will be available in a pdf file. This file will only be visible to the user after purchase.