Are these real students?

They could be fake or….

a. students intending to start your course later

b. students building up enrolments to then sell an email address and the courses it is enrolled in

c. students waiting to download and sell on pirate sites

d. students who have also enrolled in 50 other courses that day and are still 'thinking about whether to start at all'

e. students who may later approach you to try and sell you a review

f. a competitor who is not interested in the course content but is interested in the Q/A and so has not watched anything but is 'observing' the Q/A

g. students who knee-jerked their enrolment as they saw the word 'free'

h. students who are paid/unpaid 'sleepers' who, when asked, will suddenly leave a bad review (you don't have to have watched anything to leave a review)

This course has been a Best Seller for 6 years but look at the initial enrolments:

Free students don't watch courses, they just collect them.

Thanks for the inputs @RonErez @ChrisBankes120

I had one course that I gave out nearly five thousand free coupons. That was two years ago and to this day less than ten students ever started the course and probably only 5 completed it. That's how I learned my lesson not to give out free coupons.

Hello @tricksumo - Giving out a lot of free coupons or making your course free is generally a really bad idea. You'll likely get hundreds of signups almost overnight but the vast majority will be purchased by bots that scour the Udemy landscape looking for free courses. For every 100 "students" that signup for a free course, probably 98 are fake or bots that will never engage in your course.

Free students normally just enroll in courses not because they need them, but because they’re free and they feel they might need them at some point

A hard lesson that I have learned by giving away free coupons, which I don't do anymore.

I have a course on Economic analysis.

150 paid (approx)

190 reviewed

2906 looked at something

35,694 enrolled

it depends on how they got in the enrollment for the course did you need solution to that?? @tricksumo