Hi instructors!

We've released the updated version of the Practice Insights report which is dedicated to providing you with more data and insights into how your students interact with coding exercises. With this report, you’ll be able to:

• See how learners engaged with your coding exercises
• Review all coding exercise data for a course in one place
• Take action on where your learners might be getting stuck

For instructors with coding exercises, check out the report and learn more about your coding exercises today!

Beyond the practice insights improvements, you can now create exercises faster with new “Generate with AI” for Javascript. In addition, we’ve added React 18 to our language library and a "run code" functionality for learners to test their Python and Javascript exercises.

For full details on these exciting coding exercise improvements, check out our Teaching Center Article. Code on.

Hi, instructors! 

At the beginning of the year, we shared some ways to improve our pricing strategy so learners have an easier time seeing differences in course value and quality. After rigorous testing, we’re happy to give you an update on our list price experiment results and share the following upcoming changes.

Hi instructors!

Did you know that Udemy Business courses with coding exercises see 90% more student enrollments than comparable courses without them? Knowing this, we’re especially pleased to announce our latest round of updates and improvements to Udemy's coding exercises. 

To provide greater understanding into how your students interact with coding exercises, we're introducing a new Practice Insights report. It currently highlights metrics focused specifically on your coding exercises, including:

• Performance funnels tracking students who view, run tests, and complete each exercise.
• Charts highlighting time spent on each exercise over the past 7 days, 30 days or 12 months.
• Filtering capabilities by course, exercise, date range and Udemy Business learners.
• Coming soon: Coding exercise performance summary by course with exercise comparison tables.

For full details on these new coding exercise insights, check out our Teaching Center Article.

Code on.

Hi Instructors!

We’ve made some major improvements to Udemy’s coding exercises to provide a better experience for you and your learners. Here's an overview of the key improvements:

• It’s never been easier to create a coding exercise with our new step-by-step creation flow and example pool. 
• We integrated AI into the coding exercise builder for Python, C++, and Java coding exercises. You can now generate solution code, test cases, and evaluation logic for exercises in these languages and then customize as needed. This is initially only available to English instructors, but we will be expanding our language options in the upcoming weeks.

• In the course engagement section of the performance report, you can now see coding exercise insights, including how many times an exercise has been viewed, dropped, and completed. This provides deeper understanding into your course performance and opportunities to strengthen your exercises. Additionally, in June we'll release a new “Practice Insights” page with more performance details on individual coding exercises.

You can learn more about these changes as well as the progress we’ve made over the past 9 months in the following Teaching Center article. We encourage you to try the new experience and share your feedback! We're always looking to improve based on input from instructors like you.

Code on.

Hey, instructors,

We’ve heard your requests for transparency, for more of a look into what’s happening at Udemy. That’s why we’re launching a semi-regular series looking at all things instructor at Udemy.

In this inaugural edition, we‘re introducing our new CEO, Greg Brown, and talking about new investments, recent successes, areas for improvement, and our plans to make a more cohesive, learner-centric Udemy.

So, take a look at Greg’s welcome video below and then head over to the Teaching Center for a deeper look.

Update: As of 12:00 EST on Tuesday, May 16th, test video reviews are back online. 

We want to make you aware that we are currently experiencing a delay in reviewing test video submissions due to an issue on the Udemy side.

Hello there, 

I am Marina, the new Community Lead at Udemy. I am super excited to be part of this amazing community! 

Hi all,

Over the last few weeks and months, we've seen a lot of discussion among instructors about how artificial intelligence might affect the way people teach and learn on Udemy. From questions about what's allowed, to speculation about how AI might affect what learners need, to ideas for AI-driven platform improvements, you've brought your curiosity to the table—and we've been taking notes. 

Hi everyone,

As you know, learners come to Udemy to improve their lives by gaining new skills – and your great content helps them do just that. Many have specific career goals such as breaking into a new field or advancing in their current role. For these career-motivated learners, industry-recognized certifications can help them demonstrate what they've learned and achieve these goals.

Hi everyone,

Last month, we were excited to announce a suite of upgrades to the Performance dashboard, including device usage reporting, load time improvements, and of course–Udemy Business insights. We mentioned then that there were still a few items coming, and today, those items are here!

• Course engagement historical reporting: We know how important it is for you to understand your learner engagement in context. With only a year's worth of engagement data available, it can be difficult to figure out what's a seasonal trend vs. a real change in performance. You asked many times for us to provide more historical data to help you make sense of your course engagement trends. Good news: it's finally arrived.
  
  To help you understand your course performance in context, we're now providing course engagement data as far back as October 2020. If you select the "12+ months" dropdown, you'll be able to see all the available historical performance of your course engagement. So, if your course welcomed learners before October 2020, the data will start there; if your course was published after that point, you'll be able to see all historical data for it.

• Engagement data for Practice Test-only courses: Previously, if you had a Practice Test-only course, you were unable to select it within the Course Engagement page, and you couldn't view learner time spent on it over time. Now, we've enabled reporting for these types of courses, so you can see how much time learners are spending on them week over week, month over month, and now year over year.

We hope these improvements continue to help you understand and improve your course performance. We now look ahead toward new insights to enable you to teach more effectively, including visibility into learner engagement with on-site practice activities.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and questions here in the Community.

Teach on,

Bella

Hi Instructors,

It's been a month since we launched the improved coding exercise experience and we're thrilled with how many of you and your learners are using it! To spread the word, we ran a marketing campaign that included:

• A new product video that showcases the tool and experience
• A dedicated homepage banner that directs to courses with coding exercises
• A homepage pop-up notification for Udemy Business learners
• Social media posts on Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook
• An email to learners in courses with coding exercises

You can learn more about these announcements at this Teaching Center article. Interested in adding a coding exercise to your course? We have a guide to help you build effective and engaging coding exercises. 

Plus, we've got more product updates and guidance materials coming soon, so stay tuned and code on. 💻

Hi everyone,

If you have content in the Udemy Business collection, we've got good news for you! Today, we launched new views for the Performance Dashboard to let you check out data specifically about your Udemy Business performance. From ratings to learner interests to course engagement and more, you can now track how your content is performing in Udemy Business and plan your next move with confidence.

This update also includes a few items that should help all instructors, regardless of Udemy Business participation -- for example, we've provided more data on the devices learners are using to take your courses, and we've improved load times for those of you with a lot of data to display.

We want to give a special thank you to the instructors who volunteered their time in our closed beta --  @Gustavo, @MichaelPog, @SamuelLenk, @Andrew_Pach, @Rahul Iyer, and many others. Your feedback over the last several months was invaluable as we developed these new features.

Check out the full update in the Teaching Center or jump straight into the new tools in your Performance dashboard. And don't forget to let us know what you think!

Teach on,

Bella & the Udemy Instructor Team

Hi all,

Tax season has arrived in the United States, and so have 2022 tax forms for US instructors! If you submitted form W-9 (for US persons and businesses), you should be able to access Form 1099-MISC summarizing your 2022 Udemy earnings and withholding at this point. You can view your form and securely download a PDF of it in your Payout & Tax Settings page. A physical copy will also be mailed to you at the address you provided when you submitted your most recent tax information.

Hi, everyone,

Over the past few months, we’ve done some research to understand how we can improve the Udemy mobile app for you. Many of you shared your challenges with viewing and responding to learner Q&A on the app. Based on your feedback, we've updated the instructor mobile Q&A experience to be more intuitive across iOS and Android.

Now on the instructor app, you’ll be able to:
- Mark, view, and remove featured questions
- Add filters to sort by newest, oldest, and most upvoted questions
- View lecture and section information for each question for more context

We hope these updates help you interact with and support learners more easily across devices than ever before! To check out the changes, sign in to your account on the Udemy mobile app, tap Switch to Instructor View under the Account tab, and then tap Q&A under the Inbox tab.

We’re excited to share with you our updated Udemy Business Priority Topic list for Q1 2023! 

This quarterly-updated list was created by our Udemy Business Content Strategy Team by examining topic demand and requests from our customers, reviewing industry trends, and closely reviewing our current offerings.

Feel free to take a look at the list and see if there are any courses that you can create!

2022 was another year of incredible change, with new economic realities, new ways of working, and new technologies. But through it all, learners looked to you and your courses to help them meet those challenges.

But sometimes, with everything going on, it’s easy to forget just what happened. So we put together a year-in-review video to highlight the numbers and stories that made the year amazing.

And when you’re done watching, we’d love for you to share your accomplishments with our brand new social media graphic available in our Instructor Social Kit.

Hi Instructors! 

If social media is a part of your marketing strategy, this post is for you. Recently we introduced the Instructor Social Kit — a collection of graphics and guidelines to help you celebrate your Udemy accomplishments on your social and professional networks.

Today, we’d like to take you on a quick tour to help you make the most of the kit. Check out the kit for yourself, or read on to get a sense of what’s included.

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!

Hello, instructor community!

It’s Thanksgiving in the United States and we wanted to take a moment to say that we are thankful for each and every one of you who have been a part of the community! 🦃

Because of you, this community and Udemy are where it is today. You are helping others obtain the education and training they need to succeed and we can’t thank you enough!

During this time, we may be slower to respond due to the holiday. We encourage you to take some time to be thankful for any aspects of your life that mean the most to you.

With that, we’d love to hear from you!

What is something or someone you are thankful for this holiday season?

Post your answers in the comments below! 👇

Thank you again for being a part of this community and a part of Udemy!

Best Wishes,

The Udemy Community Team

We're making it easier and more rewarding to create accessible learning content.

Xin chào Udemy Instructors!

We’re excited to share our efforts to expand our presence in the Vietnamese community:

• In case you missed it - In August, we announced our strategic partnership with FUNiX, the leading online education platform in Vietnam.
• We’re going to be adding the Vietnamese currency, Dong, to our platform. You can see it as a currency option on the course management pricing page and the price tier matrix in the next few weeks.
• We’re planning to launch a Vietnamese language version of our site by the end of the year, and, in 2023, we will launch Vietnamese versions of Udemy Business and our Help Center. 

To learn more about our plans in Vietnam check out the following Teaching Center Article. 

Hello instructors,

Our Black Friday sales are almost here!  For those of you who might be new to Udemy, these tend to be Udemy’s largest promotions of the year, bringing in new learners from around the globe and providing you with the potential to grow your enrollments and increase revenue.

To ensure that you are ready for the influx of new learners, The Udemy instructor team has put together an updated list of recommendations for how you can get your course ready in the Teaching Center. 

Some of the tips include:

• Updating your course, practice tests & quizzes
• Update your course landing page
• Ensure that your content is accessible 
• Plus, other tips on ratings & reviews

Head on over to the Teaching Center to read the full article. Then be sure to come back here and let us know how you’ll be preparing your courses for Black Friday in the comments!

Teach on,

Bella 

Building on our update in August, check out the changes we’ve made to coding exercises in the past few months! We are continuing to improve this tool so that you can offer your learners authentic ways to practice and assess their comprehension.

1. We released code snippets and auto-completion features to help learners practice similar to an integrated development environment (IDE). Code snippets are templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns.
2. You can now create coding exercises in Java 17 with JUnit5. Java is one of our most popular programming languages, and these improvements could be helpful for the 600,000+ learners who are enrolled in a Java development course. 
3. When learners open coding exercises in a course, they’ll now see a fully-extended environment. It’s a smaller-scale design change, but we’re hoping it improves the user experience for you and your learners.

Beyond these improvements, we’re working on new designs for coding exercises that align with some of the top requests we’ve heard from you and learners. We’ll continue to update the community and this teaching center article as we make progress on the initiative!

Hi everyone,

Following up on September's theme of data & analytics, we wanted to share a few improvements our teams recently made to the Performance dashboard:

1. We've updated the way we calculate course consumption to better reflect overall learner engagement. Before, the Course Engagement page didn't include time spent engaging on-platform practice activities like quizzes, practice tests, and coding exercises. Now time spent on these activities is included in your Course Engagement report.
   
   We also cleaned up the logic around details like repeat viewing and watch speed. For the curious: repeat viewing counts the same as first-time viewing, and two users watching the same video count as the same number of minutes consumed, even if they watch at different speeds. For those of you with content included in subscriptions (Udemy Business and Personal Plan), this updated way of calculating engagement is now consistent with the calculation used in the Revenue Report, which already included engagement with practice activities. 
   
   
2. We've introduced a new metric, minutes consumed per active learner, to save you a trip to your spreadsheets and make it easier to compare engagement across courses. We heard from some of you that this metric provides a clearer idea of which of your courses are successfully driving learner engagement, and which might need some love to get learners moving.
   
   
3. We've added sorting capabilities to the Course Engagement summary report to let you view your courses in ascending or descending order in terms of minutes consumed, number of active students, or the new "minutes consumed per active student" metric. We hope this helps you prioritize your efforts when it comes to updating your courses or planning new ones.
   
   We hope these updates help you continue to create great content that keeps your learners motivated, engaged, and loyal.

Teach on,

Bella Almeida

Udemy Community

Did you know that 9% of learning now happens in the background? To stay on top of this trend, we have some exciting news — CarPlay is now available for the Udemy iOS app.

Hello instructors,

We’ve received several reports of the September Revenue Report not displaying as expected, as well as Promotional Emails and Educational Announcements not being sent out. We understand the importance of these features and apologize for any inconvenience caused. Our Engineering team is working diligently to resolve both issues.

Please continue to report any issues to our Instructor Support team or use this thread to document them. Once we have additional information, and/or once this is resolved, we will update this thread.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we work through this matter. 

Teach On,

The Udemy Instructor Team

After more than a year of running Personal Plan (a subscription for individual learners) in select English-speaking markets, we're getting ready to include more languages and markets over the rest of the year. Brazil is up first, with subscribers able to access top courses in both Portuguese and English in the next few weeks. After that, we're looking to include German and Spanish content, with other markets to follow.

We've learned and changed a lot about this new offering since we first piloted it last April. These efforts have helped us guide prospective learners to the right experiences for their needs, whether that's a subscription or an individual course purchase. For example, a test in the UK confirmed the value of offering a free trial, while another proved that offering learners tools to schedule dedicated learning time helped them stay on track.

To read more about Personal Plan, including a refresher on what content is included and how instructors are compensated, please read on in the Teaching Center.

Over the years, we've heard repeated requests from those of you who teach programming courses to improve our coding exercises tool. We’re happy to tell you that we've prioritized improvements to coding exercises in the coming months so that you can create hands-on practice opportunities that encourage course engagement.