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Hello and welcome to the community! Your journey is just beginning and we’re excited for you to start growing with your fellow instructors! As you continue to participate in the community, you will start to gain new ranks and build your credibility!   Rookie Welcome to the community! We hope you’re excited to get started. Since you’re new, we recommend you look around the community and make yourself comfortable! Once you have viewed enough pages, you will be promoted to Observer!   Observer Way to go! You’ve achieved the Observer rank. You’ve taken a look at a few pages within the community! Keep being inquisitive and view even more pages to reach the next rank of Researcher!    Researcher Congrats! You’ve achieved the rank of Researcher. You should now feel more comfortable about the Udemy Instructor community and start contributing to discussions! Keep viewing different pages and start posting within the community to achieve your next rank!    Traveler Wow! You’ve made it to the Traveler rank! You are now contributing to discussions. Now’s the time to start making your own path in the community. Continue to explore the community and provide valuable discussions to the community to achieve the next rank of Trailblazer!   Trailblazer Way to go! You’re making a name for yourself in the community and achieved the rank of Trailblazer! As you continue to contribute to the community, you’ll see other members submitting valuable information. Be sure to spread positivity and give some kudos to responses you found helpful! Keep posting within the community and visiting pages to reach your next rank!   Storyteller Incredible, you’ve achieved the rank of Storyteller! You are helping the community grow by contributing to posts, creating discussions, and exploring the community! Keep contributing to the community and provide valuable input to achieve the next rank of Visionary!   Visionary Congrats! You’re now a Visionary within the community. People aspire to be as knowledgeable as you are. You have become a credible source of information by your peers and continue to make this community a better place! As you contribute more within this space you will achieve the highest rank we have to offer, Role Model. Keep up your amazing work and thank you for being a part of this community!    Specialist Incredible job! You’ve just achieved the Specialist rank! You’re now a community member who continues to provide valuable information and help others grow within Udemy! Keep up the amazing work by exploring the community, providing feedback, and contributing to discussions to achieve your next rank!   Mentor Excellent work! Your continuous support within the community earned you the rank of Mentor! You have established yourself as a top user and people look to you for your input! Without your support, our community would not be what it is today. Keep up your contributions to the community by continuing to explore, share your knowledge, and be a leader in the community to get to the next rank!   Role Model Hooray! You’ve made it to the highest rank, Role Model. You’ve proven to be an amazing addition to the community and have become a well-known entity among your fellow instructors! Because of your hard work and dedication, you have lifted countless community members to be more successful as instructors. From all of us at Udemy, we want to thank you for your continued support and contributions to the community.    ... View more

Hello everyone! We wanted to share a note from Udemy CEO Gregg Coccari:   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.    Together, we are providing agile skills development for over 57 million learners worldwide, and over 13,400 enterprise customers, including 51 of the Fortune 100.    And we are just getting started.    To that end, we are excited to share with you some news regarding the next chapter of leadership for Udemy. We announced these changes this afternoon, and wanted you to be among the first to know.    I have decided to retire as Chairman and CEO of Udemy at the end of February, and will be succeeded by Greg Brown, who has served as President of Udemy Business (UB) since 2020. Together, we are committed to a smooth transition and – as always – will welcome your feedback along the way so we can continue to help you to scale your teaching businesses and your impact on learners around the world.    Greg shares my passion for learning, and is especially excited about the way we can apply technology to democratize education through the incredible combination of our consumer marketplace plus the UB platform. As president of Udemy Business, Greg proved himself a tireless and impactful leader, with the ability to build large, global, high-performing teams to grow our business and develop learner experiences that provide tangible value for learners and organizations alike.    I know you will find Greg to be a passionate, curious, and focused leader, committed to helping grow your success working with Udemy. Please join us in celebrating this next milestone in Udemy’s journey. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.    Yours in learning, Gregg ... View more

  Hello Instructors!   Thank you to everyone who joined us earlier this week to tune into the AMA we had with Community Champions Jason & Tamera Dion. It's clear from the feedback we received that many of you found this webinar to be very helpful and inspiring!   We first kicked off the AMA with these 3 questions: Tell us how you got started on Udemy... Is there a single secret to your success? How have you been able to scale your business with Udemy? Then we opened it up to the audience, and boy did they deliver. Jason and Tamera answered questions about building a team, marketing strategies, tool recommendations and so much more! 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. ... View more

Hello Instructors!     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 studentsand they will be discussing their instructor journey through Udemy!   Please use this link to register. Space is limited to the first 500 participants.   We’d love for you to kick things off by adding questions for Jason & Tamera in the comments below! 👇👇   We recognize that in trying to accommodate the time zones this time might not be the ideal time frame for some of you, however, a replay of the AMA  will be available in the community later in the week.   *Please note that this event is being held in English.*    We look forward to connecting with you virtually on Wednesday, November 30th at 10:00am PST. Until then, please let us know if you have any follow-up questions. ... View more

    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.    With Leading Up, you’ll hear fresh perspectives from business and leadership experts on how they overcome these challenges to drive business outcomes. Best of all, each episode is just 20 minutes—make sure to subscribe and follow along for new releases wherever you listen to podcasts.   The first episode is live & you can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Stitcher & more.   Episode 101: How to Lead Purposefully, Support Women in the Workplace, and Create your own Luck, features Melanie Weaver Barnett, Chief Executive Education Officer, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.   New episodes drop every Wednesday, so be sure to LISTEN, RATE & FOLLOW to along! ... View more

Hello Hello!   The Community team is excited to announce that we are currently seeking applications to join our super user program, the Community Champions!    What is the Community Champions Program?       The Community Champions program seeks to empower and reward the super users of the Udemy Instructor community. The program is designed to elevate the instructor experience for all instructors through thoughtful mentorship, meaningful dialogue & access to the Udemy team.   You can learn more about the requirements & perks in our Community Champions Reference Sheet.   This is a great opportunity to help shape the future of our instructor community (and Udemy as a whole)! If you’re interested in becoming a Community Champion, apply here.   Applications will close on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. ... View more

  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. ... View more

World Teachers’ Day is just around the corner and we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate you and all that you do for your learners.    This year’s UNESCO World Teachers’ Day theme is: “The transformation of education begins with teachers”.    As Udemy instructors you have taken a bold step toward the future of education and chosen to share your knowledge with the world online. YOU ARE indeed transforming education and for that, we thank and celebrate you.   To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, we are giving away Udemy t-shirts to the first 10 instructors who answer a daily prompt from October 5-7. During the celebration period, the prompt will be posted at a random time. The first 10 instructors to respond to the prompt will get a t-shirt (unless you've already received one this period). Limit one person. Offer valid while supplies last.   Don’t forget to come back on October 5th, World Teachers’ Day, for a chance at a Udemy t-shirt! ... View more

  Hello Instructors!   We are thrilled to let you know that we just hit 100,000 discussions in the community! What a huge milestone for our community! In just 3 years we’ve amassed 130k+ members with over 100k discussions!   All of you have been such an integral part of our community and we thank you for offering your advice, asking the tough questions, and using your voice to bring up matters that are important to instructors.    We hope you continue to make this community your daily habit and use it to learn, network and foster relationships with other instructors.   Congratulations again and thank you for making this community the BEST instructor community on the internet.   Cheers!   Chrystie, Ryan & Bella ... View more