Study Hall: Crash Course and Arizona State University's free learning-playlist series (2020)
project history · status: last documented in 2023 (looked back on in 2025) · last event: milestone (2023-01-31) · last mentioned: 2025-12-09
Study Hall, a free learning series from Crash Course and Arizona State University, began in April 2020 and grew into its own YouTube channel in 2022. In January 2023 it added GoStudyHall.com, a path from its videos to transferable ASU college credit.
Part of: Crash Course: launch of the brothers' educational channel (2011)
Told alongside: John takes Study Hall college classes in American history and math (2023)
About: Study Hall, Arizona State University, Crash Course
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-03 | launched | Hank announces Crash Course is launching Study Hall with Arizona State University: learning playlists on writing and composition, algebra, chemistry and data literacy, with the first composition episode out now. | 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) 00:03:20 |
| 2021-09-03 | milestone | Working on Crash Course's partnership with ASU has given Hank insight into how US education really functions and where it lets people down. | What the Heck am I doing? 00:01:16 |
| 2022-03-25 | milestone | Hank announces that, in partnership with Arizona State University, they are launching a new YouTube channel called Study Hall. | US College Students Need Help 00:01:56 |
| 2022-06-03 | milestone | Hank says Crash Course's partnership with Arizona State University targets exactly this problem, helping students make good decisions earlier and learn what high school taught them poorly. | What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Student Loans 00:02:55 |
| 2022-08-05 (happened 2022-08-04) | milestone | Hank says Study Hall launched its first four series yesterday: Communications, American History, College Math, and Rhetoric and Composition. | Let's Make Some Fish 00:02:10 |
| 2023-01-27 (happened 2023-01) | milestone | Hank announces that GoStudyHall.com launched this week (week of 23 January 2023), letting learners go from College Foundations videos to an online course earning transferable ASU college credit. | An Announcement 3 Years in the Making 00:02:40 |
| 2023-01-31 | milestone | John calls Hank's newly announced Study Hall, a Complexly, ASU and Google partnership linking educational YouTube videos to college credit, brilliant. | I'm Going Back to College? 00:02:35 |
| 2024-11-03 | looked back | Hank says that work is great when it is working with no problems, but harder when there are problems, like fewer SciShow views or too few Study Hall sign-ups. | Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… 00:07:56 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | John shouts out Study Hall, the YouTube-videos-to-college-credit path Hank helped build with Complexly and Arizona State University. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:03:53 |
What is said about it
13 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — ask: Hank invites viewers to subscribe to Study Hall at youtube.com/ASU. — 00:03:52
- 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — Hank says they already made a series of courses with ASU under the name Study Hall, aimed at the subjects that most interfere with students succeeding in early college. — 00:02:26
- 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — announcement: Hank says the Study Hall channel starts with Fast Guides: quick but deep dives into choosing a major, its work, skills, switching out and what graduates do. — 00:02:26
- 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — ask: Hank asks viewers to check out Crash Course How to College and the Study Hall channel and send them to everyone who might go to college soon, including themselves. — 00:02:55
- 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — Hank says that at some point in the last five years people at YouTube introduced them to people at Arizona State University. — 00:02:05
- 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — Hank describes ASU as a large public research university that judges itself by how many people it includes rather than by rejection rates and exclusivity. — 00:02:10
- 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — announcement: Hank says the result is Study Hall, with four main parts, including Fast Guides on college majors, How to College on how college works, and College Foundations on foundational courses. — 00:02:15
- 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — Hank explains the model: videos stay free; a course costs $25 to start, the first begins March 7 with a cohort and faculty support, and satisfied students can pay $400 for transferable credit. — 00:02:55
- 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — Hank sums up that they offer foundational course knowledge and transferable credits from a major research institution, more flexibly and at lower cost, and he can hardly believe it's real. — 00:03:10
- 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John explains that a Study Hall course costs $25 to sign up, and only after finishing with a grade do you decide whether to pay for college credit. — 00:02:35
- 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John says this can lower the cost of US college and, critically, spares students loans before they learn whether a program's approach suits them. — 00:02:35
- 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John: Overwhelmed by how awesome it is, John has signed up for two Study Hall classes starting in March, one in American history up to 1865. — 00:03:04
- 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Complexly (SciShow, Crash Course and more) is the most impactful thing Hank has helped start; it could always use him, from promoting Study Hall and the Crash Course coin to SciShow thumbnails. — 00:07:34