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*Official Black Friday 2024 Megathread*
Hello, Instructors! 👋
We’re thrilled to announce that our Black Friday sale is officially live!🎉 This is our biggest event of the year, and we’ve set up this thread to host all of your questions and discussions.
Feel free to use this space to ask about the promotion, share insights from past Black Friday experiences, or discuss how you’ve prepared for this year’s sale with fellow instructors.
Drop your thoughts in the comments below—we can’t wait to hear from you!
MarinaT
Feedback on Video Player Usability Issues
The platform has several usability issues with the video player:
- Pressing the "space" key to pause/unpause sometimes causes two identical videos to play simultaneously.
- Clicking on the video player occasionally fails to pause or resume playback.
- The transcript hinting and autoscroll features do not work as expected.
These issues make the platform less user-friendly and disrupt the overall experience.
Sem1101
Re: 🎉Announcement: The AI Assistant and Skills Mapping and AI-powered learning paths are live!🎉
I really worry about the fact that the AI assistant and the course content share the same space in the AI. To make this even worse, the AI assistant is the default panel that is shown, not the course content. This is not only annoying when one just wants to browse the course content (this should be the simplest thing in the world), but it also hugely de-emphasizes the course content itself, making it look as though the AI assistant is more important (which it shouldn't).
Why not place the AI assistant somewhere else? For example in the bottom right corner, where chatbots and other tools like that are often found on other websites? I understand Udemy invested a lot in this new tool, but that shouldn't lead to de-emphasizing our course content like this.
Or am I the only one who feels like this?
1 week live, 1 sale and already COURSE STOLEN AND PIRATED! Really!
Hi
I launched my course a week ago, got one sale, and a couple of days later, already found my course content stolen and uploaded to a pirate site. It's behind a "premium" paywall so has to pay a monthly access to get to download the file (along with the usual viruses).
I can see exactly how it happened. There was a "student" who obviously created an account has they used the new learner coupon code, bought both my courses, on the 12th Nov and shortly refunded them. On the 13th both courses appeared on the page 1 on google on the pirate site.
Having just started and made one sale for a grand total of $2, it's a bit disappointed how easily content can get stolen and someone else benefits, not the creator and all my hard work. It's a 12 hour course so maybe that's why it got stolen?
My feeling as the course appeared on the "new" course feed which is being prowled by pirates. Therefore I am thinking a strategy to deal with this scenario in future, is to upload only 20-25% of my intended course content and then make the course live. After the pirates have had their fill when the course is new, a few weeks later, upload the remaining 75% content. In this way, the pirated course could only contain a minimum number of content rather than the full content, and the pirates have moved on.
The other strategy is to embed electronic signature in each video via stenography, though not sure it's worth it.
I guess I could take a compliment that the pirates thought the course was valuable enough to bother stealing.. if the course was shorter, maybe they wouldn't bother (hence strategy above to go live with minimal "poor" content).
Any ideas how to deal with this piracy threat as it's almost killed my hopes for success in just a week on being on Udemy.
Thanks
