💡 How to navigate Udemy's community platform 💡

RyanJaress

Hi instructors,

Welcome to Udemy’s Instructor Community! We’re so happy you’re here.

New platforms can be difficult to navigate for the first time, so we’ve put together a quick guide to help you find the best place to ask questions and get advice.

 

Sections & forums

Studio U

Studio U is a space for all Udemy instructors — aspiring, just published, or veteran — to connect and exchange ideas. If you’re brand new to Udemy, Studio U is the place to start.

 

Within Studio U, we’ve divided the conversation into four forums:

 

• Welcome & Introductions: Create an introduction video and share it in this forum. You can also watch other instructors’ videos to get to know them better. This is also the place to find our community guidelines.
  
• First-time Course Creation: This space is for aspiring instructors who are working on their first ever Udemy course. If you’re confused by something or just need some clarification, check out this forum for guidance.
  
• A/V Solutions: Mastering audio and visuals is one of the hardest parts of creating a course, especially if you’ve never made a video before. Use this forum when you need help recording, editing or troubleshooting the videos for your course.
  
• Stories & Inspiration: Share funny jokes or inspirational stories with other instructors. This is a space for you to connect with your peers and motivate one another.
  

Published Instructor Club

Published Instructor Club is an exclusive space for published Udemy instructors. When you publish your first course, you will immediately get access to this section.

Within Published Instructor Club, we’ve divided the conversation into four forums:

• Course Creation: You know how to create a course and use Udemy’s platform, but there are always areas to improve and streamline. Use this forum to chat about more advanced course creation tactics.
  
• Marketing: There are so many different ways to market yourself and your courses. Discuss the different strategies you’ve tried and learn from other instructors’ experiences.
  
• Course Management: This space is for you to get (and share) tips and tricks for how you manage your course once you have students, including responding to student feedback and updating published courses.
  
• Stories & Milestones: Share your wins with the community. Whether that’s hitting a revenue goal, laughing at a blooper or overcoming a major challenge, we want to hear it all.

 

International communities

Our Instructor Community has members all around the world, so we created international communities in different languages to enable non-English speaking instructors to share their experiences with their peers.
 

We have Studio U communities in: 

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• German
• French
• Japanese
• Korean

You can switch between the different language communities by using the toggle in the upper right corner of the site.

 

In each international community, we have two forums:

 

• Announcements & Resources: This space is for Udemy to share exciting updates and news, alongside our community guidelines.
  
• Discussion: Use this forum to share your experiences and learn from other instructors. You can talk about anything, from first-time course creation to marketing and course management.

 

Posts & replies

• Creating a post: To start a new post, click the purple “New Post” button and start writing! Be sure to select the forum where you want the post to live.
  
• Editing your post: To edit your post, click the three dots in the top right corner of your post and select “Edit”.
  
• Reporting a post: If you see a post or comment that breaks our community code of conduct, please flag it for our moderation team by clicking “Flag” button on the bottom left of the post.

 

Other features

• Search: Use the search bar at the very top of the community site to find answers to common questions. Our search function will even pull results from our support page and Teaching Center.
  
• Instructor Leaderboard: Instructors who rare the most engaged are recognized on the Instructor Leaderboard.
  
• Activity feeds: You can see activity for the entire community, or a specific section by scrolling down on its homepage. Use the tabs to sort by “Recent,” “Trending” and “Unanswered”.
  
• Tagging posts: When creating your posts, be sure to tag them with relevant keywords related to your topic. To do this, fill in the tags section located below the description of your discussion. Include any keywords that you think are pertinent.
  
• Bookmark posts: To save posts to read later, you can bookmark it by clicking the banner icon on the top-right corner of the post.
  
• Webinar Viewing Room - Looking to learn about specific topics from top instructors? You can check out our Webinar Viewing Room to see all of our Archival footage!
  
• Event registration - On top of registering for events through the invite post, there is a space where you can RSVP from the home screen! On the right side of the home page, there is an Upcoming Community Events section. Check out the various events and click the one you’re interested in. Once you reach the event page, you can rsvp from there!

 

We hope this quick guide was helpful!

Veasna, M.

Thanks for bringing the new updates to the community!