We are excited to announce the second annual, “End of the Year Instructor Awards” (unofficially known as the Instructor UdEmmys).

Tune into this one-hour replay to learn how Jason & Tamera Dion turned their side-hustle into a 23-person team serving over 600k students & 1,000,000 enrollments in just 6 years.

Hey Instructor Community!

It’s finally December and that means there’s a new theme! This month’s theme is Udemy Principles. 

At Udemy, we have a goal to provide flexible, effective skill development that empowers organizations and individuals. Our values guide us in how we do business and interact with each other. Our Values are to be:

Earnestly Authentic

Individually humble, collectively proud

Always learning

Courageously experimental

Results Driven

Throughout the month of December, we will be reflecting with the community on what Udemy’s principles are and how they could be applied through being an instructor! 

As a reminder, don’t forget to sign up for this month’s coffee chat Thursday, December 8th 10:00am PT. We’ll discuss what being an instructor means to you and opportunities to network with your fellow instructors. 

You can sign up for the coffee chat here! 

To kick off the month, we have a question for you.

What reasons motivated you to become an instructor?

Post your response in the comments below!

Hi Instructors,

As this year comes to a close, we’re excited to announce some big, upcoming changes to our coding exercises tool!

• An improved look for learners. To create an authentic programming experience, our new coding exercise learner experience closely simulates an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
• Help your learners when they get stuck. You can now add hints and a related lecture to your coding exercises to help your learners get to the right answer.
• Create comprehensive solutions. Clarify the right answer in the solution explanation section and create test cases that are now shown to learners so they can better understand where their code is breaking.

Most of these coding exercise improvements are currently in beta testing with a select group of courses. We’ll be slowly rolling out the beta to courses with coding exercises over the next few weeks and aim to launch the new experience for all courses in early 2023. You can learn more at this Teaching Center article. We can’t wait to hear your feedback on the enhanced tool!

Hi all,

As we head into the end of the year, we wanted to provide an update on our continuing work to offer both subscription and purchase options for individual learners on Udemy.

Hello Hello!

We wanted to pop in and remind you that applications for the Community Champions program will be closing tomorrow!