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

Hello Instructors! 

As the year comes to an end, we would love to chat with you about Udemy Principles! We all have reasons for being a part of Udemy and we wanted to hear why you chose to teach with Udemy! Udemy has five values that we use to guide our decision-making and ensure we are staying true to our identity! You can see our values posted above!

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?

December’s theme is Udemy Principles, so for the first 30 minutes, we will discuss various questions and scenarios about your core values. Then we will open the floor for some questions about your experiences!

How do I sign up?

Glad you asked! You can sign up right here.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, December 8th at 10:00am 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.

We are beyond excited to announce our next webinar featuring Community Champions Jason and Tamera Dion! Jason and Tamera collectively have hundreds of thousands of students and they will be discussing their instructor journey through Udemy!

We are excited to announce that the Udemy team has just launched a new podcast, Leading Up hosted by VP & General Manager of Udemy Business,  Alan Todd. 

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

The Community team is excited to announce that we are currently seeking applications to join our super user program, the Community Champions! 

Our teams have been working throughout this month to ensure your next payout goes extra smoothly. Payout for all instructors is expected Monday, November 7, but we're pleased to say that we've sent it a little early.

Hello instructors!

It’s about that time! We’re really getting close to our biggest sales season of the year. That means you still have a chance to put a little extra shine on your content. We’ll be pulling out all the stops to bring visitors to the Udemy platform, so take advantage. We have plenty of tips and resources over in the Teaching Center and in the webinar replay from last week!

Let us know what you’ve done to prep your courses in the comments below.

Teach on,

Udemy Community Team

The month of October has come to an end and we wanted to showcase the highlights of what we covered!

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!

Earlier this week we held a live webinar discussing Black Friday & Q4 with guest panelists (and Community Champions!)  Lindsay Marsh & Rahul Iyer.

We kicked off the hour-long webinar by asking the panelists the following questions:

• How do you prepare your courses for Black Friday?
• What is the #1 tip you would give instructors going into Q4?

Then we opened up the floor to the audience to ask questions, and boy you did not disappoint. Lindsay and Rahul fielded questions about Black Friday, and marketing & each panelist chatted about their own instructor journies.

Watch the replay above and let us know in the comments what your biggest takeaway was.

Hello instructors!

Last week we posted several tips on how you can get prepared for our Black Friday sales. We also thought it might be helpful to give you some insight into how we are preparing for the upcoming promotion. So we asked our Senior Vice President of Marketing, Llibert Argerich, to talk about what we’re doing to get ready for this sales season — and for the long haul.

Give it a watch below, and let us know what you think in the comments below!

Teach on,

Udemy Community Team

Hello Instructors! 

We’re so excited to be chatting with you about something that should be fun, Instructor Stories! As you go through your instructor journey, there are going to be events or happenings that will be a great learning experience! We’d love to give you the opportunity to share your stories and network with your fellow instructors during this upcoming Virtual Coffee Chat on Friday, November 4th at 10:00am PT!

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?

November’s theme is instructor stories, so for the first 30 minutes, we will discuss various questions about scenarios you may have encountered as an instructor. Then we will open the floor for some questions about your experiences!

How do I sign up?

Glad you asked! You can sign up right here.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday, November 4th at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET!

*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.

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

The month of September has come to an end and we wanted to showcase the highlights of what we covered!