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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thank you for joining us for the first Instructor Insider of 2024. Many of you have told us you want more ways to reach and engage learners — and maximize your earnings potential. And we’ve heard you. So this Insider we’re focusing on:

Your content – We want to make it easier for you to do what you do best: create fantastic content for learners. 

Your brand (and ours) – Where you teach is important, so we’re working hard on building trust and name recognition for new and existing learners.

Your revenue – We’re making enhancements that will help skill-oriented learners discover and engage with your courses (so they keep coming back).

 

Read on for more of how we’re doing it

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

WHY?
Build your personal brand

Promote your courses and teaching style

Tap into Udemy’s audience of over 12M followers

Connect with Udemy learners across the globe

Share your knowledge help others grow personally and professionally

Grow your community by engaging with new and existing learners

 

If these perks sound appealing, this opportunity is for you!

 

The Udemy social media team is looking to feature video content from instructors across Udemy’s social channels. For a chance to be featured, record a short video clip of you sharing ANYTHING related to learning (must be under 60 seconds).

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi all,

 

Tax season has arrived in the United States, and so have 2023 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 2023 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 tax form will be sent to the mailing address you provided when you completed your tax documentation, unless you selected to receive your year-end tax forms electronically (and so Udemy won’t send a copy by mail).

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

We are excited to invite all Udemy Instructors to an exclusive AMA (Ask Me Anything) session featuring our esteemed Chief Marketing Officer, Genefa Murphy. This event will be held on February 6th at 11:00 AM PT, offering a unique opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Udemy and its dynamic landscape.

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi everyone,

 

As you probably know, Udemy uses a variety of marketing strategies to bring new learners to the platform, engage existing ones, and get more exposure for instructor content. Today, we want to shine a spotlight on one way we reach more potential learners and grow the platform: partnerships

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey there instructor community,

 

In August, we sent an update with the pricing and deals program for course eligibility for promotions and sales.

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi all,

 

We're making an update to our tax form policy. Beginning January 1, 2024, a valid tax form will be required to receive payout from Udemy. So if you're one of the few instructors who's actively earning on Udemy, but hasn't yet submitted a valid tax form, you'll need to do so in order to continue to get paid out each month. You can read more about the updated policy in the Teaching Center

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey, Udemy Business instructors,

 

We often hear that you’d really like to know what it is that Udemy Business learners and customers want to learn next, so you can create new courses — or update the ones you’ve already got. So we’ve created a new tool, currently in beta, that allows you to see what’s in demand.

 

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MarinaT
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi all,

 

As you might have seen, there is currently a visual issue with the revenue report, where the expected payout date is displaying as November 8th.

 

We want to reassure you that August payouts were paid out today, October 6th.

 

We're working to resolve this visual issue, and we apologize for any confusion or alarm it's caused.

 

Please let us know if you have additional questions.

 

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Leonor C.
Community Moderator
Community Moderator

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.

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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Leonor C.
Community Moderator
Community Moderator

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.

MarinaT
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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ChrystieV
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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MarinaT
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hello there, 

 

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

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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. 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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

Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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. 💻

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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!

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

 

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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!

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

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.

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RyanJaress
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hello Hello!

 

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

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Bella
Community Manager
Community Manager

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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

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