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Dr.RaniaSeoudi · ‎01-24-2022

True, most students don't go for chemistry courses; they prefer tutors. I hope Udemy promotes their business plans to universities (not just students), or offers them academic packages. Maybe even someday, they will create an online academic library to host academic courses or short videos. 🥺

FrankKane · ‎01-20-2022

If you stopped promoting your new courses, that's probably why they are failing to gain traction. You need to get a certain number of reviews before a new course really has a shot at selling on its own. Are you at least using Udemy promotional announcements? There are lots of free ways to promote your course and there's really no reason not to. I don't know what sort of "internal issues" caused you to stop in August, but resolving that seems like the main thing to do. Udemy provides lots of guidance on things you can do at https://teach.udemy.com/marketing/

FrankKane · ‎01-12-2022

The policies of Payoneer and PayPal are outside of Udemy's control. Your rage at Udemy is misdirected. Payoneer enacted the $50 minimum policy, and PayPal chose not to serve Turkey. Udemy had nothing to do with that. They are just working with the payment services available to them. If you already have a balance of $29 then it is just a matter of time before you hit $50. Be patient, as it's all you can do.

mariorossiudemy · ‎01-04-2022

Hello Frank, thanks so much for your extensive answer and congratulations for your success! I think your success is due to intelligence and a deep voice. It's very pleasant to listen to you! Thanks again! MR

FrankKane · ‎12-29-2021

Are you asking if you can create a course with nothing but audio? No, courses must include video content. At a minimum you could record yourself talking while presenting slides; you don't have to include video of yourself in the course, but you need video of something.

FrankKane · ‎12-16-2021

I was about to write "of course you can include an ASCII table, it's just a standard"... but then I went to the ISO website to check their copyright policy, and it says: "All content on ISO Online is copyright protected. The copyright is owned by ISO. Any use of the content, including copying of it in whole or in part, for example to another Internet site, is prohibited and would require written permission from ISO." But, it's not clear to me who actually owns the ASCII standard. Is it ISO? ANSI? I can't seem to figure out who, if anyone, holds rights to it. And, is ISO claiming rights to the standard itself, or just to their PDF documents describing them? These are all questions for a real lawyer who specializes in intellectual property, which I am most definitely not. The Wikipedia page for ASCII includes complete tables, so to be safe you could just link students off to it rather than copying the table into your course. Or to any of the other gajillion ASCII tables on the Internet. (In my opinion, it's extremely unlikely you would actually run into legal trouble by including ASCII codes in a course... but you never know.)

Practicalbu693 · ‎12-12-2021

I think the refund days should be of 15-20 days instead of 30 days

AlessandroB879 · ‎12-09-2021

Thank you very much Rahul !

FrankKane · ‎11-15-2021

- Spend some time optimizing your course landing page. Are you offering a solution to your students' problems? Is your course image and promo video the best they can be? Did you choose your best lectures as "free preview?" Do you have the right keywords in place in your title and description? - Can you drive more reviews to your course within Udemy's policies? Reviews matter (a lot) - But the best way to drive more traffic and sales is simply to make more courses, in topics that have high demand and low competition that you are confident in presenting. Use the Marketplace Insights tool to research that.

Bella · ‎11-03-2021

Hi @MichaelPog, we're always looking to improve and we use feedback such as yours to help us do just that. Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts about this! 🙂

FrankKane · ‎11-01-2021

Absolutely! A great thing about Udemy is the freedom they give instructors to be creative in how they present their material. About the only things you can't do is use text-to-voice software, or try to sell students stuff outside of your final "bonus lecture." The full set of rules, guidelines, and recommendations are at https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/sections/360001167193-Course-Material-Basics

CanReader · ‎10-25-2021

I use my native language Turkish for my course and my problem is not much about linguistic, it is more about speaking to people. As I mentioned in another reply, I hesitate a lot between sentences. Sometimes this hesitate may sustains for a half hour or, I may forgot what was I going to say. For instance, I had tried to tell a property in programming language, and I forgot what was Turkish meaning of the word, like this one "Hold on what was Turkish of the Scroll bar? Am I forgetting my native language or something? What's wrong with me" My problem is not just about this thing, I can't express my mind clearly to my students. Even though, I am not using a camera on my videos, and just recording my presentation screen, my voice come out as nervous even I am not.

LiamDavin1 · ‎10-21-2021

Hi @CLINT I would like to give this a critical listen in the studio where I don't have internet (deliberate decision). Can you give me a link to download this video/audio via "wetransfer" or "dropbox ". If that's ok. I've got a busy few days coming up and would be happy to give it a listen after that and let you know what I think.

FrankKane · ‎10-06-2021

Personally I'd rather stick with the richer feature set of my deskdtop video editing software and just re-upload edited videos. I think this is an important feature on YouTube because re-uploading a video causes you to lose all the views and ratings on that video, which are really important. But re-uploading a video within a course does not reset the metrics on the course, so there's no pressing reason to be able to edit an existing video within Udemy as far as I can see. If your upload speeds are really slow, or you don't have decent video editing software, I could see how that would be useful. I guess my question for you is why would you want to edit videos online instead of offline? It would be a ton of work for Udemy to develop and maintain a feature like that; there are other things I'd rather have them focus on.

FrankKane · ‎09-24-2021

Nobody knows except Udemy, and I don't think they're about to tell us the details 🙂 They don't want instructors gaming the system. Ultimately Udemy wants to promote courses that people buy, so it would seem a safe bet that they would surface courses that convert well into sales. There are some reputable courses on Udemy SEO (from Scott Duffy for example) that go into more detail about how to optimize your presence on the platform. Even without knowing the details of "the algorithm," we know it's important to think about the text of your course title, subtitle, and description, and what topic categories you choose, in order match students' searching and browsing with your course in the first place.

Samreen Nisa Qureshi · ‎09-21-2021

Thank You..

FrankKane · ‎09-08-2021

Out of curiosity, what was marketplace insights telling you originally about the median and top earnings for that topic? If it changed that dramatically that quickly, that points to some sort of problem in the tool, or maybe Udemy's taxonomy, I think.

FrankKane · ‎09-06-2021

Send an e-mail to that address asking why your account was suspended. If you don't use email, specifically whatever account you used to create your Udemy account, I bet the reason is already in your inbox and you just haven't read it.

KateAlison017 · ‎09-03-2021

Hi All! My August sales were far below what I would have expected. After the change of Udemy policy in May, I see a 30% drop in my revenues which is very upsetting. I am wondering if this is only my case or more instructors see the same pattern?

MuhammadUma309 · ‎08-22-2021

ok

Bella · ‎08-13-2021

I absolutely love these goals. I'm sure you can do everything on this list and more! 👊 I might actually do the same and keep my to-do list on a post-it too, thanks for the idea, Alicia! 😅 Bella Almeida Udemy Community

FrankKane · ‎08-13-2021

If it's someone you know and trust, then I think a co-instructor setup is the right way to do this. You'll have to agree on a revenue split. If your friend is the primary instructor who created the course, then they will need to click on the little gear icon in the course's instructor dashboard and add you as a co-instructor with the split you agreed to. As you are both contributing materially to the course, there shouldn't be any issue with regards to policy. The policy's here if you want to be sure: https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605728-Co-instructor-Relationships-Rules-and-Guidelines Just be aware that whoever the primary instructor is on the course has the power to change the revenue split at any time without your approval. You will be notified if it changes, but you have to trust the person. An alternative arrangement would be to charge your friend a fixed fee for your services. You'd still want to appear as a co-instructor since you are the face/voice of the course, but if payment were happening outside of Udemy you'd just have a 0% revenue cut. This would reduce your risk if the course doesn't sell well, but you'd lose out if it were successful.

Bella · ‎08-11-2021

Thank you for your understanding, Luigi. Updating the content regularly is crucial for improving our search engine ranking and therefore increasing the chances of the course's success in the platform. But you're correct: updating your course every 6 months is not a requirement. Courses will only be flagged if they haven't historically had significant enrollments, little to no student or instructor engagement for some time, and the course landing page doesn't follow SEO best practices (all these three criteria). Thank you for your feedback in regards to the updates we share. I agree that being able to subscribe to our Help Center would be a great idea and I'll make sure to share this with the rest of our team. As always, we're here if you have any further questions or concerns. All the best! Bella Almeida Udemy Community

Francisoji048 · ‎08-05-2021

Thanks for enlightening us on this issu.

ElianaC · ‎07-29-2021

Hi @Voider2049 I'm sorry for the delay in getting an update from the team as Frank mentioned, there was a backlog with the requests, but I'm able to see your tax form has been received and approved by our tax partners. In case you will like to have specific information about your revenue share or withholding rate, please reach out to instructorsupport@udemy.com or follow up under the email you have received. Eliana Cerna Udemy Community

Bella · ‎07-26-2021

Congratulations @Dr. Calculus , onwards and upwards! 👏 Hi @ChetanSharma, that's amazing! Being an experienced online/offline instructor, you have a lot in your favor. Do let us know if you need any assistance along the way, though! Bella Almeida Udemy Community

EasySQL · ‎07-05-2021

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

DaveH · ‎07-05-2021

vokoscreen for screen recording Shotcut for video editing Audacity for audio editing Atom for displaying code on screen (it's clearer and simpler than VSCode) Recently slides.com for animated presentations Google Slides for scripts, on-screen diagrams Firefox for showing the browser on screen. I'm a Linux user, but most of the above are cross-platform. All are free unless you want private presentations on slides.com, but it's very cheap if you do want that. All are open source apart from Google Slides.

AmeliaKhouri · ‎06-28-2021

Thank you very much SueBuist for your comment. Don't hesitate to join in, if you're interested 😉 Anyone is welcomed☺️

Nurhadiyuwo116 · ‎06-27-2021

Dear sirs My honour Publisher of Udemy team, in this community ,thanks so much for the clear explanation about Of How to reach n earn money at Udemy. I am going to be happy knowing about refet to students & Udemy as well. The explanation makes me clear n How it is a must to be me as a candidate of instructor, for I still plan n make ready about the course, either the quality of video n the contents themselves. Thanks so. Much Udemy, however my conversations here makes me love n love more towards what I can do n Udemy as well, of Course. I have to do the best course as try n do, so it will find the expectation of mine, as I do the dream, might be anyone else. Thanks a lot for the clearer explanation. I feel I have been given more explanation than I expect before Nurhadi yuwono

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