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Pop quiz: Guess the number of minutes learned on Udemy in 2025
Hi there, instructors! It’s almost time for our annual Instructor Rewind video, your look back at the year on Udemy. As always, we’ll be launching a video full of stats. But before we do, we want your guesses! How many total minutes of video were consumed by learners in 2025? Drop your guess in the comments below!
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Udemy and the Learning Revolution: How Instructors Shape Education’s AI Future
Hey instructors, We understand that things are changing fast, and it’s 100% normal to wonder what that means for you as an instructor. But here’s what we are seeing on our end: learners don’t just want information, they want a real person to guide them through learning new subjects that they are passionate about. Here’s…
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Community Guidelines
In a community of thousands of instructors that span various countries, cultures, and languages, it’s important for everyone to follow a basic set of guidelines. Every community member, whether that’s a new instructor or Udemy moderator, will be held to these ground rules, along with Udemy's Instructor Terms and Conditions…
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MEGATHREAD: Black Friday Sales are Here!
Udemy's Black Friday sale is officially live! This is one of the biggest sales events of the year for all of us instructors, bringing massive traffic and activity across the platform. What are your thoughts and experiences with this year's Black Friday event? Whether you have insights to share, observations about the…
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Course Not Appearing in Udemy Search
Hello! My course doesn't appear in the course search on Udemy. I've tried using keywords in my course title and typing it verbatim, with no results. Any suggestions? "Leadership Training for Autism Ministry & Caregiver Support"
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How do you get your first 20+ paid students after launching with free coupons?
Hi fellow instructors, I launched my nutrition course and currently have 1,100 students with a 4.68 rating, but almost all of them enrolled via free coupons during launch. This gave me some traction, but now I want to focus on paid enrollments and attract students who genuinely engage and leave feedback. How do you…
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How long did your auto-generated captions take?
I have 5.5 hours of content (across 60 lessons) in my course. When should I expect to see the auto-generated captions? Thanks!
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Newbie instructor - need some feedback for the phases.
Hello, I want to create my first course. I checkout https://www.udemy.com/course/official-udemy-create-course/ and I now have some clues how to build my course. Anyway - it is my first one. I don't want to make 100 sections and after that get reviewed my section (so, I won't need to do refactoring lot of sections). I want…
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The quality for mobile running + marketing.
Hi, I have my first course published few days ago. Sql Zero to Hero - Learn Database Skills from Scratch It seems quite fine in desktop. I have two major problems. 1. Most of the course has synthesized speeches. I used power-point video creation for the courses. It seems udemy has kind of algorithm that make my voice…
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Ownership Transfer
Hello; Can someone kindly let me know how to transfer ownership from my co-instructor to myself. Thanks
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Are Courses Not Included in Personal Plan or Udemy for Business Still Selling Well?
Are you getting sales for courses that are not included in either the Personal Plan or Udemy for Business? I published a course two months ago, and I haven’t received any sales yet. It seems like students are choosing my competitors’ courses that are included in PP or UFB. Also, the distinctive ‘Premium’ tag may influence…
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Announcement of an Ads Pilot on Udemy
Dear Instructors, Today (on July 30th) Udemy announced our Q2 earnings. As part of that announcement, we highlighted four key areas all designed to position Udemy as a leader in AI learning and skills acceleration space, return our consumer business to growth and continue to grow our B2B business. Increasing our emphasis…
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Which Editing Software do you use?
Hello Instructors! We know that everyone has their own style of video creation because we’ve already seen your different audio & visual setups. But for this discussion, we’d love to know which software you are using to pull it all together? Which editing software do you use and why do you use it?
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Stop Complaining instructors!
Recent months I see a few instructors yapping about low revenue and blaming Udemy for it. Market is bad, ChatGPT has impacted heavily. Now people do not buy courses for every tiny thing ChatGPT explains it to them in their customized language. Also, new instructors are coming; they are also taking away shares along with…
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Payout Account Setup
Hello. We are an educational collective/partnership. We plan to sell an educational course and manually withdraw the revenue, alternating the receiving account among the partners for each payout. Question 1: Is it possible to start selling and generating revenue without connecting a PayPal or Tipalti account, and only…
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Mclaren/Udemy win F1 World Championship!!
On a lighter note, you all know that this year Udemy has been a sponsor of the Mclaren Formula One team. Today was the last race of the season and McClaren has won both the Constructors World Championship and the driver's world championship (Lando Norris). I think we can all feel some pride in that association and maybe it…
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A Redesigned Course Experience Is Launching to Learners
Hey instructors, Today, we’ll be rolling out a redesigned course experience to learners in a beta experiment, starting with 1% of all learners and gradually widening our experiment size over the next few months. What is it? This new course experience reimagines how learners engage with your courses, offering a more…
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AI Policy Clarification: Course Quality Standards and New Disclosure Requirements
Hello Instructors, In light of the various AI policies and features, we have heard some of your feedback regarding lack of clarity for what policies exist around the use of AI in Udemy courses. We encourage all Instructor Partners to familiarize themselves with the following current policies around course quality and use…
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New Month New Theme: Instructor Stories!
Hey there instructors! It's finally December and this month's theme is instructor stories! Throughout your journey as an instructor, there's sure to be some experiences you'd like to share with your fellow community members. From an interesting interaction with a learner, to a method of creating your courses. There should…
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Subtitles in Another Language to Original?
Hi - a student today asked if I could activate the subtitles from my course (which is in English) to Spanish. As far as I was aware we have to acquire a translation and then upload (?), which I've never done before, but seeing as Spanish is the fourth most spoken language it might be worth doing. Has anyone done this? I…
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Is It illegible to use My YouTube Videos ? if yes how to use it in my course ?
Is It illegible to use My YouTube Videos ? if yes how to use it in my course ?
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Tax form is not getting updated
Hi, My Tax Form is not getting updated from last 8 days. Successfully submitted but again & again is asking to resubmit.
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Feature Suggestion : A/B Testing for Course Images (Thumbnail Optimization)
Hi, I don’t know if this has been suggested by instructors before but I would like to propose a new Udemy feature of Course Image A/B Testing. The idea is to let instructors upload multiple course images similar to YouTube thumbnail testing and allow Udemy to automatically rotate them, measure click through rates and…
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Why Sales are Falling?
I noticed sales are falling and i want to know reason why? I saw i am not alone to face this issue. Many instructors too have this problem. Strange! Personal subscription is causing trouble?
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Best Ways to Test Student Learning
I’m a new instructor currently building my first Udemy course in integrated photonics. As part of the course design, I’ve experimented with both quizzes and assessments to check learner understanding. What I’m still unsure about is: which approach works best for truly evaluating student learning in technical subjects?…
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What are our community's purpose and values?
Udemy believes that the best instructors aren’t always found in a classroom. Everyone has something valuable to share, but actually doing it isn’t easy. It takes hard work to create a course and bravery to share a part of yourself with the world. This investment comes with the potential for tremendous reward, both in terms…
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Instructors: Are You Ready for AI's Impact on Teaching?
Hey Instructors, You've always adapted to new tools and methods. Now, AI is reshaping how people learn and work, and that includes the teaching landscape. Here's what our latest research reveals and how you can stay ahead. The Reality Check We All Need A study with YouGov across four major economies, revealed an important…
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New course
I just created a new course and would like to experience it as a student. Is it okay to take my own course as a student?
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Webinar Replay: Audio Visual 101 for Udemy Instructors
Instructors, you asked for it....so here it is! Today we are bringing you the webinar replay from our broadcast held earlier this week. In this one-hour-long webinar, we chatted with @TrevoirWill about his instructor journey and he shared five solid tips about how you can improve the quality of your audio & video in your…
