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.

Hey Instructor Community! The month of January has come to an end and we wanted to showcase the highlights of what we covered!

Hey there instructors!

We are looking into adding new sub-groups to the community and we’d like your feedback.

These groups are designed to fit more niche topics within the instructor community that don’t necessarily fit the current categories we have to offer.

This poll ends Friday, February 10th at 4:00pm PT so be sure to get your suggestions in before then!

Hey there!

It’s officially February and we want to have our theme cover a highly discussed topic, SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and a strategy to improve the quality and quantity of your traffic from search engines

Hello Instructors! 

February is almost here and we will be covering an important topic to Udemy success, SEO! Making sure that your content is being viewed by the right people is important to your success. We’d love for you to stop by and network with fellow instructors and discuss SEO topics and strategies.

What is a virtual coffee chat? 

The community virtual coffee chats are hour-long informal networking sessions held via Zoom. During these sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to network with and get to know other Udemy instructors worldwide.

Hey there instructors,

On January 25th, we had the pleasure of having an AMA-style webinar with our Senior Director, Product Management Jacob Coulter and we wanted to share a recap of what we discussed.

As background on who Jacob Coulter is and what he does here at Udemy.

Jacob joined Udemy in June of 2022 to bring features to the Udemy platform to help you succeed as an instructor! At the moment his area of expertise is the following:

• Tooling for instructor content management

• Instructor insights (data, reporting, course performance dashboard)

• The learner <> Instructor interactions

Here’s what we covered during the Webinar!

For the first portion of the AMA, we had Jacob answer some of the questions that you posted in the webinar invite. 

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!

Hello Instructor Community!

Just a friendly reminder to submit your questions to our Senior Director Product Management, Jacob Coulter before the webinar begins on January 25th from 12:00 to 1:00pm PST.

Hello Instructors! 

As some of you may have noticed, we have just rolled out a new feature to the community. As of this morning, we have launched a new ranking system so you can see your progress as you engage with the community! In this post, I will go through the ranking system and show you how to navigate it.

Hi everyone,

There has been a delay in the release of the Udemy Business earning figures in the Revenue Report, which was supposed to be available yesterday. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. This issue is currently being investigated by our engineers and we hope to have a solution as soon as possible.

Please note that this doesn't affect when you're paid out, just when the previous month's reporting appears on your Revenue Report.

Once the issue has been addressed, we will post an update in this thread.

Thank you for your patience!

Teach on,

Instructor Community Team

Dear Instructors,

Happy new year! As always, we enter this year grateful for your leadership, knowledge and partnership. Our instructors are critical in Udemy’s ability to deliver on our mission to improve lives through learning. 

Hey Instructor Community! The month of December has come to an end and we wanted to showcase the highlights of what we covered!

Hello Instructor Community!

We are excited to bring you another live community event this month! On January 25th from 12:00 to 1:00pm PST we’ll be sitting down with the Senior Director Product Management, Jacob Coulter, in an AMA (Ask me Anything) style interview.

Hello Instructors! 

It’s the beginning of the year and we want to help you set your goals for success! As instructors, it’s essential to set yourself up for success and have goals to measure your progress. We’d love for you to stop by and network with fellow instructors and really hone in on what’s most important for you to achieve in the year 2023! 

What is a virtual coffee chat? 

The community virtual coffee chats are hour-long informal networking sessions held via Zoom. During these sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to network with and get to know other Udemy instructors worldwide.

How does it work?

January’s theme is new year new goals, so for the first 30 minutes, we will discuss various questions and scenarios about your goal setting. Then we will open the floor for some questions about your experiences!

How do I sign up?

Glad you asked! You can sign up for the coffee chat here!

We look forward to seeing you on Friday, January 13 at 12:00pm PT! 

*We understand that this time may not be ideal for all time zones, however, we will change the times of the coffee chat each month to accommodate different locations.

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.

Hello Instructor Community!

The holidays are right around the corner, so we are giving you a heads-up that our team will be slower to respond over the next week. We will still be periodically checking into the community throughout the rest of the month in case there are any pressing issues. 

Thanks everyone for an amazing year in the instructor community and we look forward to seeing you in 2023!

We wish you and your family a happy holiday season! 🙂

Sincerely,

The Udemy Community Team

Hello Instructor Community!

The results are in and we have our winners for the second annual Udemy Community Awards! Congratulations to all the winners!

Hello Instructor Community!

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to cast their vote for the second annual Udemy Awards nominees! Your choices have been recorded and we now have our nominees for each category! 

You can cast your vote for each category here.

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.

Hello Instructors!

We are so excited to host our LAST webinar in 2022! In this event, we will treat it as a workshop to help you plan your 2023 year as an instructor! To help out, we encourage you to download these assets before you join the webinar.

Please use this link to register. Space is limited to the first 500 participants.

Hey Instructor Community! The month of November has come to an end and we wanted to showcase the highlights of what we covered!

Community Member Shoutouts!

Every so often, there are community members who reach certain milestones and we wanted to shout out a few members who have reached the “50 Replies Given” in the community!

Congratulations to:

@Gaston Galarza 

@Robert_Marzullo 

@AlvaroGarcia 

@Ytonihon 

Hey there instructors! 

Our goal is to make sure that everyone within this space can connect with like-minded individuals and grow as instructors in Udemy! Now that 2022 is coming to an end, we want to hear from you! 

We are currently holding a survey to hear how your experience within the community is! 

You can access the survey here.

Once you finish the year-end survey, you will be entered for a chance to win one of our awesome Udemy-branded mugs!

Ends 12/18. Limit one per person. See the official rules for more information.  

Thanks again for being a part of the community and we are looking forward to enhancing your experience in 2023!

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!

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