When you introduce a colleague to Blended Teaching and they go on to teach with us, you earn a referral fee: 10% of what we receive from their teaching, for 12 months. Your link and your fees are on the Referrals page, in the account menu in the top right of your Control Center.
This guide covers:
What you earn
What qualifies
Making an introduction
Who to introduce
When a fee is counted
When you are paid
Where to see your referrals
If the terms change
Questions
What you earn
You earn 10% of what Blended receives from everything your colleague teaches with Blended, for 12 months from their first paid student access.
Your fee is based on what reaches us. Students buy the textbook online, at their campus bookstore or from an ebook store. Whoever sells it keeps a share, usually between 2% and 30%, and the rest reaches us. Your fee is 10% of what reaches us, not 10% of what the student pays.
The fee is not tied to one course. If your colleague teaches two courses with us, or adds another in the spring, all of it counts while the 12 months run.
The 12 months start the first time a student accesses your colleague's course having paid, either directly or with an access code. A student in a course priced at $0 never starts the clock, and neither does a student on free access. There is one clock per colleague, not one per course.
What qualifies
These all count as introductions:
a colleague who takes over a course you teach
a colleague given a new section of a course
a PhD student or colleague who moves to another university and teaches there
the instructor who replaces you when you move university
Colleagues at your own university count too.
Some things do not earn a fee:
Your own teaching. Referral fees are for introducing other instructors.
A colleague someone else introduced first. A colleague can only be referred once, and the introduction stays with whoever got there first.
A referral your colleague makes. If someone you introduced goes on to introduce a colleague of their own, that fee is theirs.
Making an introduction
Open Referrals from the account menu in the top right of your Control Center. It appears there once we have shown you your earnings. The first time you open it, you accept the Referral Program Terms before you continue.
Your referral link is a personal link you can copy and share. Share it with a colleague who would enjoy teaching with Blended: by email, in a faculty group, or with someone you already know.
If your colleague uses your link, the introduction is recorded against you automatically. If they come to us another way, you are still credited: we ask every new instructor who told them about Blended, and their answer is what counts.
There is no limit to how many colleagues you can introduce. Select How referrals work on the Referrals page for the full program rules.
Who to introduce
The Referrals page has a short checklist of suggested introductions. Check one off and a ready-made message is copied to your clipboard.
Whoever teaches the other sections of your course. They can see it working in yours, on the same syllabus, with the same students.
The people you trained. Former PhD students and recent hires are choosing their materials for the first time, with no textbook to switch away from.
Your field, not just your department. Your society listserv, a conference panel, or the group chat for your subject reaches instructors teaching what you teach at other universities.
When a fee is counted
A fee is counted once the money it is based on has reached us, and that money arrives steadily through the semester as students take up access. Your referral earnings for a semester keep rising while the semester runs.
Some of that money reaches us a few months after a student pays, because it passes through the store that sold the access first. A fee appears on the statement for the semester in which the money is recorded, not the semester in which your colleague adopted.
When you are paid
Referral fees are paid with the rest of your earnings, every September and every February. We will tell you at least 30 days before this schedule changes.
Earnings are counted per semester. Spring runs from January to July and is paid in September. Fall runs from August to December and is paid in February.
Where to see your referrals
The Referrals page shows:
your referral link, to copy and share
your referral fees for the latest semester, and your total since August 2026
Your referrals: each colleague you introduced, their Referral %, their Referral window and the Fees each has earned you, with a total for all colleagues. A colleague appears here once their referral is successful.
Referral statement: what you earned, what you were paid and what is outstanding, semester by semester
For referral fees and royalties together, open Earnings from the top navigation. It shows both streams, what has been paid and what is still owed, from August 2026. Everything up to July 2026 is paid to you separately, so it does not appear there.
If the terms change
These terms apply from September 14, 2026. The terms that applied when you made an introduction are the terms we pay on it. We may change how referral fees work for future introductions, and any change applies only from the day we publish it. If the terms change, the Referrals page asks you to review and accept the new version the next time you open it.
Questions
We issue any tax form the law requires, such as a Form 1099. To download yours, open Earnings and select Tax documents. Each completed tax year has a Download PDF annual document and a Download CSV summary of your earnings and payments. We can't give personal tax advice.
If a referral is missing, or a fee is not what you expected, see How do I get help?. If you also share teaching materials with us, see Royalties.