Motif Club: FREE! (We operate this program using a "Pay What You Want" model)

Online Courses: $70 (Independent Self-paced course)

Local Classes: Local classes vary depending on location and total hours. Click here to see our schedule.

Private Lessons: $300 for the first student and then only $100 for each additional student.

Please see each respective Classes page for more information.

We offer custom programs to fit your Homeschool or other organization. Please contact us for a quote.

We teach a lot! Please see our Curricula page for a breakdown and helpful video of each course we offer.

Generally, anywhere from 1 - 2.5 hours.

Motif Club is 1.5 hours once a week.

Local Courses vary depending on location. Click here to see our schedule.

Private Lessons are customizable to fit your needs.

Online Courses are self paced and dependent upon student's reading, typing, and computing abilities. Each section should generally take between 2.5 - 3.5 hours to complete (5 sections per course), but can be broken up into smaller sessions.

Motif Club is our weekly live & social online learning program that incorporates group learning as well as self paced modules. Learn more HERE.

Online Courses come with unlimited support through the integrated instant chat widget. A Motif Class teacher will respond to your student's question during business hours (and many times after hours!). Online Classes also come with two optional video meetings, where they can ask questions and share their progress with the teacher.

Student's in Motif Club have an instructor there with them in the live video club-room during the entire session.

Local Classes take place in a safe rented space, either public school classrooms or privately owned spaces. Click here to see our schedule with current locations.

Private Lessons take place in an agreed upon location, usually the student's home or homeschool pod.

Motif Club takes place in an online video conference via Zoom.

Every program we use is open-source and free. It's an integral part of the Motif Class culture. We also run Linux Mint operating system for all our Local Classes and Private Lessons.

Our core programs are:

• GIMP & Inkscape (2D Graphic Design)
• Blender (3D Design, Animation & Video Editing)
• Audacity (Audio Design)
• LMMS (Music Production)
• GDevelop 5 (Game Development)
• VSCodium & Visual Studio Code (Coding)

We process payments through a secure online payment processing platform. Courses are purchased through a streamlined shopping cart experience.

We supply the computers for Local Classes & Private Lessons.

For Motif Club & Online Courses, here are the minimum computer requirements:

Our courses are designed for 2nd - 12th graders. Since our classes are almost entirely computer based, it's important that the students have basic keyboard and mouse skills to be successful.

Local Classes & Motif Club: It's important for us to maintain these grade restrictions for our Local Classes.

Private Lessons: We are willing to make exceptions to the grade restrictions mainly because we can focus on a more personalized plan for the younger student. For older students there isn't a problem.

Online Courses: If there is someone available to help your younger student through the course then please feel free to register them for the course. For older students there isn't a problem.

Minetest is a free computer game almost identical to the popular game "Minecraft". Minetest is a great end-of-class reward that students look forward to. It's also a great team building activity and has many beneficial learning qualities including fundamentals of coding, electrical circuits, increasing spatial abilities and more. If your student doesn't want to play or you'd rather them not, they can "free-design" or work on homework instead.

Local Classes: For our longer Local Classes (around 2.5 hours), if your student reached the daily goal on their project they are welcome to play Minetest with other students for the dedicated last 20 minutes of class.

Private Lessons: Minetest time is optional, and decided upon when building your customized program.

Online Courses: Our independent, self-paced, online courses do not incorporate Minetest.

Motif Club: We do regularly incorporate Minetest into our weekly online program Motif Club.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Local Classes & Private Lessons vary in length depending on location.

• For classes around 1 hour we don't generally take breaks.
• For classes around 2-3 hours students can eat snacks during the first 10 minutes of class. Roughly half way through class we also take a 10 minute break.

If your student misses a Local Class or Private Lesson you have two options:

1. We can try our best to catch them up during the next class
2. We can grant access to an online version of the specific missed class for them to catch up at home.

Local Classes: We charge a $1 per minute late pick-up fee per student.

• All Motif Class instructors are First-Aid/CPR certified and background checked.
• We keep a low teacher to student ratio of no more than 1:10.
• We sanitize computers after every session.
• Precautions are taken in accordance with CDC guidelines as well as state and local regulations.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

We do not provide food or beverage. We encourage parents to pack their student a snack for class. There are almost always water fountains on location but please make sure your student has a water bottle.