Welcome to Udemyâs Instructor Community! Weâre so happy youâre here.
New platforms can be difficult to navigate for the first time, so weâve put together a quick guide to help you find the best place to ask questions and get advice.
Sections & forums
Studio U
Studio U is a space for all Udemy instructors â aspiring, just published, or veteran â to connect and exchange ideas. If youâre brand new to Udemy, Studio U is the place to start.
Within Studio U, weâve divided the conversation into four forums:
- Welcome & Introductions: Create an introduction video and share it in this forum. You can also watch other instructorsâ videos to get to know them better. This is also the place to find our community guidelines.
- First-time Course Creation: This space is for aspiring instructors who are working on their first ever Udemy course. If youâre confused by something or just need some clarification, check out this forum for guidance.
- A/V Solutions: Mastering audio and visuals is one of the hardest parts of creating a course, especially if youâve never made a video before. Use this forum when you need help recording, editing or troubleshooting the videos for your course.
- Stories & Inspiration: Share funny jokes or inspirational stories with other instructors. This is a space for you to connect with your peers and motivate one another.
Published Instructor Club
Published Instructor Club is an exclusive space for published Udemy instructors. When you publish your first course, you will immediately get access to this section.
Within Published Instructor Club, weâve divided the conversation into four forums:
- Course Creation: You know how to create a course and use Udemyâs platform, but there are always areas to improve and streamline. Use this forum to chat about more advanced course creation tactics.
- Marketing: There are so many different ways to market yourself and your courses. Discuss the different strategies youâve tried and learn from other instructorsâ experiences.
- Course Management: This space is for you to get (and share) tips and tricks for how you manage your course once you have students, including responding to student feedback and updating published courses.
- Stories & Milestones: Share your wins with the community. Whether thatâs hitting a revenue goal, laughing at a blooper or overcoming a major challenge, we want to hear it all.
International communities
Our Instructor Community has members all around the world, so we created international communities in different languages to enable non-English speaking instructors to share their experiences with their peers.
We have Studio U communities in:
You can switch between the different language communities by using the toggle in the lower right corner of the site.
In each international community, we have two forums:
- Announcements & Resources: This space is for Udemy to share exciting updates and news, alongside our community guidelines.
- Discussion: Use this forum to share your experiences and learn from other instructors. You can talk about anything, from first-time course creation to marketing and course management.
Posts & replies
- Creating a post: To start a new post, click the red âStart a Conversationâ button and start writing! Be sure to select the forum you want the post to live in too.
- Editing your post: To edit your post, click âOptionsâ in the top right corner of your post and select âEdit Messageâ.
- Accepting a âsolutionâ: Find the reply you think offers the best answer to your question or adds the most insight. Click âOptionsâ (top right corner of the post) and select âAccept as Solution.â This will push the reply to the top of the thread and indicate that itâs the accepted solution.
- Reporting a post: If you see a post or comment that breaks our community code of conduct, please flag it for our moderation team by clicking âOptionsâ and selecting âReport Inappropriate Content.â
Other features
- Search: Use the search bar at the very top of the community site to find answers to common questions. Our search function will even pull results from our support page and Teaching Center.
- Instructor leaderboard: Instructors who receive a lot of likes are recognized on the Instructor Leaderboard.
- Activity feeds: You can see activity for the entire community, or a specific section by scrolling down on its homepage. Use the tabs to sort by âLatest,â âTop Liked,â and âUnansweredâ.
- Pin a post: If you find a conversation that you find really helpful, you can pin a post so it stays at the top of the forum by going to âOptionsâ and clicking âFloat this Topic for Current Userâ. Only you will be able to see posts that you âfloatâ.
- Subscribe to posts and labels: You can subscribe to posts and labels that you find particularly interesting so you get a notification whenever thereâs a new post. To subscribe to a post, click âOptionsâ and select âSubscribeâ. To subscribe to a label, click the âSubscribeâ hyperlink in the blue bar for that label.
- Bookmark posts: To save posts to read later, you can bookmark it by going to âOptionsâ and clicking âBookmarkâ.
We hope this quick guide was helpful!
