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Big News! Udemy + Coursera Combination Complete
Instructors, I'm excited to share a major milestone. Today, Udemy and Coursera have officially combined to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills platforms. As one company, we are better positioned to enable skills discovery, development, and mastery for learners and organizations globally. This brings your…
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The Slow Fade of Udemy: A Platform Turning Its Back on the People Who Built It
For years Udemy was the great equalizer of online education — a place where an independent instructor could record a solid course, upload it, and build a real income from students all over the world. That promise is quietly collapsing. Instructors today are battling a triple squeeze: a platform that now keeps the lion's…
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Testing Starter Plan: New Ad-Supported Consumer Subscription (limited rollout)
Hey instructors, We're always testing new ways to bring more learners to Udemy – and ultimately to your courses. One new path is a lower‑priced, ad‑supported subscription called Starter Plan. In the coming days, we'll begin a limited test of Starter Plan in select markets. As part of this test, we'll also pilot a way for…
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İlk Adımlar
Merhaba herkese, İlk Udemy kursum yayına alındı: Yaratıcı Yazarlık: Kendi Anlatını Yarat. Kursu yalnızca teknik yazarlık eğitimi gibi değil, katılımcının kendi anlatı evrenini, sesini ve yaratıcı disiplinini kurmasına yardımcı olacak bir başlangıç alanı olarak tasarladım. Özellikle ilk kursunu yayınlamış eğitmenlerden şunu…
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Questions About Udemy’s Shift Toward Subscriptions
During the most recent earnings call (Q325), Udemy leadership shared the following: "The momentum in consumer subscriptions is strong, so we are accelerating that push. This means we are intentionally reducing transactional course sales in favor of recurring subscription revenue, which will slow near-term segment growth.…
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Does a Co-instructor need to create a different course to become a Premium instructor?
Hi, I am creating a course with a SME co-instructor. I am the owner and added him as a co-instructor. I want to assign revenue share but it requires that he be designated as "premium." The instructions say that he has to create a course and then go to the price and add $ details to become premium. Can he do this with the…
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How do I create and publish my first udemy course
Hello I am a new instructor I want to crest my publish new course on udemy can someone guide me step by step an how to upload my videos and submit my course to review? Thank you
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Is it possible to link my course to Content Opportunities after it has already been published?
I forgot to link my course to the Content Opportunities before submitting it for review, so it went live without being linked. Is it still possible to link it afterward? Also, is it necessary to link a course to the relevant Content Opportunities for it to be considered for inclusion in Udemy Business (UfB), or can it…
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videos not playing
I am receiving multiple complaints as follows. However both for me an Udemy support the videos are playing : I received this one week ago: ""the section 7, 71 video is not playing"" And this today: ""Hello sir, I have already paid for the course, but I am currently unable to access it. The course is not showing in my…
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How Can I Talk to a Person at Udemy Regarding My Course?
Hello, My name is Ross Muellenberg. I am attempting to create a course on Udemy (called "Raw Food Philosophy"). I originally submitted my course, and got generalized feedback in the Course Feedback section saying I needed to update my visuals. I have updated my visuals and re-recorded the videos for my course twice, and…
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New opportunities for our enterprise customers
Instructors, Earlier this year we shared that we've partnered with Google to bring their "Learn AI with Google" training plan to Udemy. This includes Google created training materials and professional certificates, now available alongside the thousands of courses our instructors have created. See our community post on this…
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Which Editing Software do you use?
Hello Instructors! We know that everyone has their own style of video creation because we’ve already seen your different audio & visual setups. But for this discussion, we’d love to know which software you are using to pull it all together? Which editing software do you use and why do you use it?
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Challenges with Video Editing on macOS for Course Creation
Hi everyone, I’ve been working on creating a new course for Udemy, and I’m facing some challenges with video editing on my Mac. I’m looking for a tool that’s straightforward to use but still has enough features to make the content look professional. One of the issues I’ve run into is getting smooth transitions and effects…
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Students for my Udemy Course
Hello Seniors, I have just put my course on Udemy? I have a question from my Experienced senior colleagues, In how many days do we see the growth in enrolments.
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Inquiry About Publishing Company-Produced Courses on Udemy
We are a small educational platform that produces and owns courses created by different instructors. We offer a diverse range of research and data analytics courses from multiple instructors. We have signed contracts with all of our instructors that grant us full rights to these courses. Currently, our courses are…
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Big news: we’re excited to announce the second Wave of supported Content Innovation Fund projects!
Instructors! With this wave, we focused on innovative and exciting projects across the community, with a particular emphasis on supporting projects in our Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese language collections. This reflects our ongoing commitment to investing in our global instructor community and expanding access to…
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Live public courses are not appearing in Udemy search results, even for exact course-title searches
Hello Experienced Instructors, I am an instructor and fairly new as an Udemy instructor. I need help checking whether several of my live public courses are correctly indexed and eligible for Udemy marketplace search. Some of my cours are marked LIVE and Public in my instructor dashboard. Their direct public URLs open…
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Got the opportunity to meet instructor
Hi from India , Happy Today to meet all virtually recently published my course excited today thanks allo
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📣 SEO 101 for Instructors: Episodes 7–9 Now Live
Hey there instructors! The third and final wave of our 9-episode video mini-series is here! This series is designed to help you make your Course Landing Page more discoverable on external search — think Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Catch the full series here. Here's what to expect in this final wave: Ep. 7:…
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12 Years on Udemy Today
All the best to everyone on their first 12 years with Udemy ;-), —Brian
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Promotion of my course by Udemy
Hi I am Rio Kalpana David. I am a first timer on Udemy .I have launched a course on Prevention of Sexual harassment at workplace based on the India's POSH Act 2013 .My course has 8 registered students leads generated through my contact and offer of Free voucher .However I am not seeing any input or promotion of my course…
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New AI Instructor from Kenya – Looking for Guidance
Hello everyone, My name is Andrea John Thuo, also known as Presenter Andreas. I am a Computer Scientist, AI enthusiast, ICT trainer, and content creator from Kenya. I recently joined Udemy as an instructor and I am excited to share my knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Programming, and Technology. My…
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Happy to join this amazing community
Hello everyone I'm excited to join the Udemy Instructor Community. I'm currently working on my first course and I'm looking forward to learning from your experiences and contributing to the community. Thank you for having me.
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First timer
Hi this is my first time creating a course. I teach mathematics, nice meeting y'all. Hope we get along together.
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Changing the course URL
We've just had our first course accepted - whoopidoo. However, we now realise we should have given it a different title. And while it's apparently possible to change it, we understand it isn't possible to change the URL. So were we to change the title, it wouldn't match the URL. And that's just bad branding. So before…
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Hi Swahili lovers
Hi everyone! Am from Tanzania-Arusha,some how newcomer in this forum.I am a professional teacher teaching Kiswahili and Linguistics. I real want to transfer this Swahili taste to you guys all over the world,my passion is to see beginners or those wish to know Kiswahili they real know it! My videos are coming, so stay…
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📣 SEO101 for Instructors: Episode 4–6 Now Live
Hey there instructors! The second wave of our 9-episode video mini-series is here! This series is designed to help you make your Course Landing Page more discoverable on external search, think Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. We're releasing episodes in three waves of three, every Thursday. Catch the full series…
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Website Selling Courses from Multiple Udemy Instructors (Piracy)
Hi instructors, I recently discovered a website that appears to be selling Udemy courses without authorization. It doesn't seem to be limited to my content - courses from many instructors appear to be available there. This seems to be a serious copyright infringement issue affecting many instructors, not just an isolated…
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English Coffee Chat
Coffee Chat for English Instructors
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📣 New Video Series Alert: SEO 101 for Instructors
Hey Instructor Community! 👋 We’re excited to share that starting today, June 18, 2026, we're launching a 9-episode video mini-series to help you make your Course Landing Page more discoverable on external search, think Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. We’ll release three new episodes every Wednesday, with all nine…
