Tes resources selling

[CaptainHarville]

I was wondering if anyone sells resources on Tes and if so if it's worth doing?

How does it work with regards to copyright if you have used an image for example?

I've loads of resources for KS3-KS5. I've also produced a lot for a relatively new course. But don't want to spend time sorting them out if I'll not earn much.

There is stuff on TES itself regarding copyright etc.

I do ‘t sell, it often wonder about it. I figure that making any money on stuff I needed to make anyway would be positive but I never quite get round to sorting it all out!

I sell resources. I own the copyright. My earnings pay for my website and I make £30-50 a month.

There are lots of people that sell on TES and bastardise other peoples resources and had the resources removed.

When I looked into this it seemed to be the case that you needed to do quite a bit of re-formatting eg remove any copyright images, double check all sources and form them into packs. What seemed to be on sale was a pack of PowerPoint plus planning, plus worksheets etc

So do you sell directly from your own website rainbowfudgee?

I own a scheme of primary resources and my website is a platform to access these via annual subscription, but I also sell them in bundles on the tes website. They do sell quite well although uploading was a bit of a faff.

Oh clever you for developing that - was it something you did alongside class teaching or afterwards?

Alongside teaching. I still use it lots!

Just interested - how did you get around the issue of the rights on creative work belonging to your employer? That has always been a stumbling block to any ‘side gig’ as far as I am aware.

But lately I am coming much more to the conclusion that the loyalty shown by employers is very limited, so feel less of a moral obligation around that area!

Also interested in this.
So would you remove all images sourced from something like Google?
Some teachers seem to use extracts from a textbook/ other book quite extensively. I have some worksheets where I have used some paragraphs from a gcse textbook.
Raimbow, if you don't mind me asking, how many resources do you find you have to sell to raise that amount each month?

I've uploaded in the past and I've made c.£1000 from it in the past few years.

I just used stuff on Google which was copyright free. You can specify it in google image search.

Just to add I see it as passive income.

I've just had a check on TES and I've made £37 this month I spent about a week 2 years ago sorting out, organising and checking images etc and haven't done much since. Might have another spate of uploading this summer. It's never going to make me a millionaire though!

I’ve sold a few but really limited to things I can say are definitely 100% my own work, so some preparation slides for GCSE exams are fine, questions to prepare for an A level text also fine. I think I have three paid for resources on there in total and have made £9 since November last year - having said that I teach a subject which isn’t taught in every school and two of those resources are for one choice of A level set text which many schools won’t be doing. I will have to have made £10 before tes would allow me to withdraw any money.

It is a pitiful amount of money for the work involved.

Why not either share altruistically or do something like tutoring or exam marking to generate income?

There is some amazing free stuff in TES still (including some animated PowerPoints that I am in awe of).

One of my students uploaded an entire bank of sample essays I wrote for the entire A level for edexcel.

Needless to say as soon as I found out I let the TES know!!!

I am all for sharing with colleagues, but I’ve seen several ambitious types get ahead by passing off colleagues’ work (or work done as part of general school collaboration) as being down to their own initiative or ‘leadership’. Perhaps this is a way for a teacher who doesn’t want to climb the greasy pole to get a little credit for the time they put in to developing resources?

I don’t buy TES resources because I can’t preview them.

If you use any of the resources in your teaching the your employer owns the copyright. Doesn't matter that you created it, you did it for your job.

Yes, that was what I had always understood.

But I suppose it is almost impossible or not worthwhile for schools to enforce this?

I have a real problem with this. TES used to be free. People shared resources and we would help each other out. Nowadays, everyone’s in it for the money, which I suppose is a sign of the times.

I hate that they've started charging! I will never charge for the resources I've put up there; why should teachers have to pay out of their own pockets to share ideas and resources? Its completely wrong; really put me off the site.