Everything you wanted to know about creating a course on Udemy
This post is for everyone who is excited about creating a course with Udemy, but isn’t sure where to get started. Spoiler Alert: We now have a FREE course for that!
Introducing the Official Udemy Course for How to Create an Online Course
This course covers best practices for designing an impactful learning experience and features tips from some of our top instructors (including one of our very own Community Champions, Jason Dion!).
In just 90 minutes, we’ll guide you through the recommended course creation process and share best practices in teaching and instructional design, plus share resources with you to help you plan, produce, and publish your own online course.
Here are some of the topics you’ll learn:
- Use the Marketplace Insights tool to identify in-demand topics to validate or refine your course topic
- Learn how to define your ideal learners for your course
- Determine and write clear learning objectives
- Create practical activities and assessments to drive an engaging and high-quality course
- Create a well-structured course outline
- Produce your course content following best practices for recording and editing your videos
Plus much more!
If you are ready to kick off your online instructor journey the right way, enroll in “How to Create an Online Course: The Official Udemy Course”
P.S. This course is currently only available in English, but we hope to roll it out in additional languages soon.
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Hey @Bella
,This is fantastic. When I had newly joined Udemy in 2016, I had been through similar courses that Udemy had officially created for instructors. They were topic specific such as Outlining Your Course, Creating Content, among others. They were so unique and helpful that after following the guidelines from those courses, my Udemy career took off. My courses automatically became top-rated and started selling well. Students loved the way the content was produced and the ease in which they could grasp everything. I benefitted immensely from those.
I am sure this course will be perfect for instructors and help all of us. Thank you for creating a newer version of those and sharing it here! Very helpful.
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Rahul, wow! We are delighted to hear that you value the efforts we have put into creating this new course. We plan to continue creating new resources to help our instructors achieve their goals.
Thank you for your terrific feedback.
Bella Almeida
Udemy Community
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Absolutely. Thank you @Bella
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The course is good for an overview, however it (and related "articles"), do not go into enough detail and instruction on the Curriculum Building functionality and I continue to struggle with this as I work to build my first course. For example, I can't get each new section to number. Any advice on where I can get a step-by-step tutorial on this task?
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Hi @KenMRadz, thank you for your post, and I’m sorry for any trouble.
The sections and their corresponding lectures will be automatically numbered. You can learn more about creating sections and adding lectures in this article, and you can see pictures of what the sections and lectures look like.
I hope this helps,
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Thank you very much, I appreciate the help. I’ll check out the course. There is always something new to learn.
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Bessy:
Thank you for the suggestion to go back and read the article at the link you provided. I did, and while the instructions are confusing and not very clear, I was able to start adding sections for my first course. On first view, the system and format is very clunky but hopefully I'll get more comfortable with it as I go along. Thanks again! Ken
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Hi @KenMRadz,
Thank you for getting back and taking the time to check both the article and the video. I’m sorry to hear that the instructions were confusing at first, but it’s great that you were still able to start adding sections to your course.
We understand that getting comfortable with a new tool can take time, and we truly appreciate your feedback. Rest assured, we will share your comment with our internal team as we continue to work on the user experience.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to post here or reach out directly to our instructor support team by clicking here and selecting “Contact Us” on the right.
Wishing you the best of success on Udemy!
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I'm new here! Is there a minimum course duration? I'm planning to create a short course of around 50 minutes.
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Hi @motionmenon , welcome to our community!
The minimum length of a course is 30 minutes. You can check the quality guidelines in this article.
Best regards,
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Thank you
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@Bessy Does Udemy have a marketplace, and is it possible to advertise on it?
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Hi @motionmenon, 😊
Once you create and publish your course in the Udemy marketplace, you gain access to a global audience of millions of students actively seeking to enhance their skills and knowledge. You can also promote your course using referral links and coupon codes
You can find more information about it in this article.
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