🚀 New Feature: AI-Generated Course Summaries Coming to Course Cards

RyanJaress · 2025-06-13T21:49:54+00:00

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Hey Instructors,

We're excited to announce an upcoming enhancement to help potential students discover your courses more efficiently!

What's Happening

We're introducing AI-generated course summaries that will appear when users hover over course cards. These concise summaries will highlight key course information and skills taught, helping learners make faster, more informed decisions about which courses match their needs.

How It Works

The AI will generate summaries based on the information you've already provided on your course landing pages
These summaries will display in the hover state of course cards
We'll be measuring the impact through an A/B test to ensure this feature enhances the student experience

Who's Eligible

For our initial rollout, this feature will be available for:

English language courses
Instructors who have opted into the GenAI program
On Udemy.com only (Marketplace)

Benefits for You

This enhancement aims to increase course discoverability by helping students quickly understand what your course offers, potentially leading to higher engagement and enrollment rates.

No action is required from you at this time. We'll share more details and results as the test progresses.

Teach on,

Ryan

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RogerKayAllen

It sounds great! Thanks for this new enhancement.

DiegoHernán333

GREAT!,

We hope this feature will be available soon, also for courses in the Cervantes language (Spanish).

A Big Hug and GOOD LIFE TO RESSTLESS MINDS!

Mehul82

Good Feature 👍🏻

PV Drug Safety Academy

Hope this feature will open new doors of opportunities to students and ultimate success to instructors and Udemy.

PuneetGupta453

This looks like a promising enhancement. However, have you tested how AI will generate course summaries for two courses covering the same subject? Currently, instructors use varied styles when creating course landing pages—some include reviews, others highlight key topics, some outline the full curriculum, while others explain how the course connects to their broader course offerings.

It would be interesting to see whether the AI can generate a unique and differentiated course summary, or if it ends up generalizing the landing page content across similar courses.

Rehmiee

Simply awesome. Looking forward.

ValentinDespa

Sounds interesting - thanks for the update.

Do you have any designs or mock-ups? When exactly will this be rolled out?

KarolyNyisztor

@RyanJaress Awesome! That's exactly the feature I suggested to Greg Brown during our conversation last year in Cascais.

SergeyK

Looking forward to it! 👍🏻

ChrisBankes120

Will the AI be thoroughly trialled before launch?

I ask because I have been trying out the AI for the Q/A.

Here are some results:

ChrisBankes120

Here's another couple from another course:

GenefaMurph976

@ValentinDespa here are some screenshots - please note this is a test in English only right now on the Logged Out Home Page - if it performs (we are seeing good early signs, but never say yes until we have the results in), the team plan to expand to recommendations units across the site and Search Results page - but per all the comments above we are using the test to ensure quality, differentiation, consistency etc

@KarolyNyisztor
thank you for helping inform the roadmap

ValentinDespa

@GenefaMurph976 thanks for the screenshots!

I've placed the current and the new AI-generated text side by side.

AI version feedback:

What I do like is that there is a bit less text. However, it does seem less organized and harder to read. In the current version, I like the green checkmarks that keep things a bit more organized.

I will also ditch the "Course summary" heading, which takes up space and doesn't seem to bring anything useful in terms of new info. Instead, why not bring back the number of hours, and other more useful info.

GenefaMurph976

Let me give this feedback @ValentinDespa and ill come back

FrancisOji331

This is a very good idea

Esther

I've seen those AI marketing texts all over the place lately, and they are all the same. Same tone, same rhythm, same usage of nice sounding but ultimately generic and unspecific terms (like 'impactful', 'captivate'). Note how the text on the left gives way more precise information. You can tell that one was written by a person and one by a machine. As a buyer, if it's written by a machine, I won't buy. To me it says, I want to sell you something but cannot be bothered to try and convince you myself to buy it. It's lazy. But that's just me.🤨

MarinaT

Hi @Esther,

Thanks for sharing your perspective and providing detailed feedback. I’ll be sure to forward it to our internal team for consideration.