Free First Hour

Kind, Affordable Help Going Digital.

Graduate students from CU Denver's School of Education help you build your course, training, or media, and show you how to keep it going.

Where Will Your Project Take You?

Tell us a little about what you need. It starts an email to the Agency, and we'll set up your free first hour.

The Agency at a Glance

  • 1st HourFree. A no-pressure conversation about your project with Brad Hinson, the Agency's director.
  • $40Per hour after that. Buy a block of hours; they stay banked until you use them.
  • 2 HelpersOn every project: a graduate student, and the faculty member guiding them.
  • 13+Partner organizations, from the Colorado Department of Education to CU Anschutz.

You teach them the work. They teach you the tools.

Every project starts with a free hour with Brad Hinson, the Agency's director and a faculty member in Learning Design & Technology. Bring your idea, your questions, or just the feeling that you're in over your head. No strings attached.

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What It Costs

Start with a conversation. Pay only for the hours your project uses.

  • First conversationFreeAn hour with Brad about your project. No strings attached.
  • SEHD faculty & programsNo costDesign, redesign, or media for your course.
  • Agency alumni who mentorNo costBring a project, mentor the student we assign.
  • HostingScoped per projectWe'll talk it through in your first hour.

Project assistance

$40 per hour

Hours are bought through the CU Denver storefront and stay banked until your project uses them.

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Our Work

Once Agency, Always Agency.

Our students become graduates, then mentors, then the people who send the next project our way. Join a community that keeps learning together.