📣 Save Announcement Drafts in Your Instructor Dashboard! 📣

MarinaT

Hi instructors,

Today we’re sharing an update to the Announcements page in your instructor dashboard!

Starting May 27, 2025, you can now draft both educational and promotional emails and save them for later without sending them immediately. This new feature is designed to give you more flexibility and control over your course communications.

How to Use the Drafts Feature

1. Log in to your instructor dashboard and go to the Announcements page, which is housed in the Communication section in the left hand side menu.
2. Click on the “Compose” button to start a new draft.
3. Compose your message, add any necessary images or links, and format it to your liking.
4. If you’re not ready to send the email yet, simply click on the “Save as Draft” button at the bottom of the page. Your announcement will be saved in the ‘Drafts’ tab.
5. When you’re ready to send or make changes, go to the ‘Drafts’ section, click on the announcement you’d like to edit and select ‘Preview’ to open your saved announcement. 

We believe this new feature will help you organise your communications with your students more effectively and enhance your teaching experience.

If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here to help.

Thank you for being a valued part of the Udemy Community. We’re always working to make your teaching experience better!

macaulayfamous

very nice

AlexGenadinik

Thank you - there is one usability problem I am running into that I think most other people who have many courses will too - when I choose select all courses and try to go through it to remove from the list, that window is a little too small, and makes it harder to go through them faster.

Attaching screenshot - this window used to be bigger and more convenient to use. I wonder if the size of this window can also be increased?

Also, I don't know if it's a bug or a feature or me just being slow with it, but I saved something as a draft yesterday, and now I can't find any drafts :)

Thor

That is excellent, thank you :)
Any chance a scheduler/calendar is in the works too for it, so we can just make it, schedule, forget it.

MarinaT

Hi @Thor,

Nice to see you around!😊 Yes, I hear you. I know the ability to schedule announcements has been requested by the community before, and we’ll continue to pass this feedback along to the team.

PhilEbiner

This is a great feature - and glad to see Udemy rolling out a lot of great features more quickly in the past. Like Thor said, scheduling announcements would make this feature 99x better… and I'm sure not difficult to add as an option. Hoping we can see this sooner than later!

KylePew

Great feature! I'm in support of the scheduling feature as well.

AHardin

This is wonderful! Hopefully a scheduling feature gets added in the future.

MarinaT

Hi @AlexGenadinik,

Thank you so much for your feedback on the page layout size. I'll be sure to pass it along to our internal team 😊.

I’m really sorry to hear your saved draft disappeared, that shouldn’t happen. Were you able to create another announcement and save it as a draft again in the meantime? I hope everything is working properly for you now, but if the issue comes up again, please reach out to our Instructor Support team by clicking here and selecting “Contact Us” on the right-hand side, so they can take a closer look.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

leshajones

Nice

KylePew

The draft feature is awesome. I created a promotional draft the other night then I was able to slip out of bed early in the morning, hit the send button and climbed back into bed. :)

Next step, creation of a scheduled option to send the announcement automatically so I don't have to get out of bed. :)

KrystianWojtarowicz

Hi @MarinaT,

Finally we can save our announcements… this is a great step forward! Now I'm able to prepare some announcement for the future without just storing it somewhere else, great :D

Best Regards,
Krystian Wojtarowicz

MarinaT

Next step, creation of a scheduled option to send the announcement automatically so I don't have to get out of bed. :)

That’s a pretty solid case for adding a scheduling option, @KylePew 😄. No promises, but I’ll keep passing the idea along!

MarinaT

Yay, @KrystianWojtarowicz! Glad to hear you like it.