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MichaelPog · ‎11-12-2022

Actually @RandyMinder pretty much nailed it. @Sunshine_Naburika your course is beautiful. I watched the promo video and the preview videos, and everything looks really good. As an instructor I can appreciate the work you put into the music, animation and the visuals. As a student in the marketplace I would probably look for better value for my money. And that value is there on the first and second page of looking for your course topic. With courses containing more content, with 20 hours of material and coming from very well-known instructors with tons of reviews and ratings. I'm absolutely not surprised that you got so many enrollments and good reviews when your course was free. It is probably the best free course for that topic. But when it comes to paying students the landscape is very different. Did you do market research before working on this course? Also in my opinion it's a terrible idea to start a course as a free course. I don't know why people still do this. When you launch a new paid course you need me gives your course a new tag and puts it usually on the first page of your topic to give you a boost. No other marketplace platform does that. But when you launch your course as free you waste that opportunity. Now you have to compete with everyone in your category.

MichaelPog · ‎10-25-2022

This is great. Thank you for the update @Bella .

MichaelPog · ‎10-21-2022

1. My microphone is working 2. Google Slides is still free. 3. Video Editing is magic:) Happy Friday @Bella

MichaelPog · ‎10-18-2022

"I do not have human resources to speak..." Have you counted yourself?

MichaelPog · ‎10-12-2022

Thank you so much @PhillipBurton . The audio does sound very good. I have one question though: What is the advantage of using a Gate on the preamp vs simply using a noise gate in post production using Garage Band or Udacity?

MichaelPog · ‎10-12-2022

Thank you @Bella for the update and clarification. I really appreciate it. I do want to point out that this is the second migration in the last few months that went terribly wrong. The first one was the daily email reports which is still down by the way. And this is the second issue with the revenue report this month. My revenue was entirely messed up for weeks until very recently. I'm not blaming anyone and I understand the challenges in migrations between systems. But as others have pointed out, those ongoing production issues reduce the confidence we have in Udemy and create unnecessary stress for everyone. So I hope that besides a proper and prompt fix to this issue, there's a bigger postmortem on all of this situation and proper action items are taken to avoid those issues in the future. This high frequency of breakage is NOT ok.

MichaelPog · ‎10-11-2022

What is the most effective setup to minimize the amount of noise picked up from the keyboard and mouse, while recording screencast that involves a lot of typing, such as in the case of coding? - a headset with microphone next to your mouth? - a microphone mounted from the top to provide the longest distance from the keyboard? - a dynamic microphone with a low gain that just sits on the table or hangs on a mount? -some magical keyboard/mouse that just doesn't make any noise? - reducing the noise in post-production? Thank you!

MichaelPog · ‎10-06-2022

My first five star review from a complete stranger who took my course and said it was the best course they have ever taken on that topic. That's when I knew I was doing something right, and I should continue doing it.

MichaelPog · ‎10-05-2022

I wanted to multiply my impact by teaching my knowledge to other engineers, while having the freedom to create what I want, when I want. Looks like I didn't make it in the first 10, oh well:)

MichaelPog · ‎09-30-2022

Thank you @Bella !

MichaelPog · ‎09-29-2022

@Bella thank you for the detailed explanation. Is this available for UFB students? If so is the revenue for audio only consumption equivalent to video content consumption? Thank you

MichaelPog · ‎09-28-2022

@Bella thank you for the update. Sounds like a great feature. I'm super confused about what audio content you are referring to. Are you talking about the audio tracks of the video lectures? Or there's a way to upload audio only content? If that's the case, is Udemy allowing audio-only courses now? And what if I have content that can be both good as a video content and audio only content, how do I make both available without duplicating the content in the same course? Thank you.

MichaelPog · ‎09-08-2022

Oh I'm looking forward to this!

MichaelPog · ‎08-31-2022

Hi @ChrystieV I just checked and it looks like now it is fixed. All my courses are showing up in the daily report. However, I don't see the number of total students in the daily report as we used to in the old system. It's not a huge deal but it is a degradation in terms of what we get from the report, after Udemy's migration to the new system. Is your team aware of it and will it be addressed? It was nice to have that in the report. Thank you!

MichaelPog · ‎08-31-2022

Thank you @ChrystieV , I'll update this thread as I get the new email. I appreciate your help!

MichaelPog · ‎08-27-2022

Hi @ChrystieV, Is there any update on this issue by any chance? It has been more than a month and my reports are still broken. It now doesn't show the number of students I have in total and only shows 4 or my 9 courses on each daily report. I got a message from Instructor Support saying that "it's now fixed", which is not. It's very hard to track enrollments without those daily reports. Is there an estimate on when it's all going to be resolved? Thank you.

MichaelPog · ‎08-24-2022

I don't know if 78% is very helpful, but seeing the top 5 courses revenue and the number of courses is really what you need. I see you're already at the top. And given that one of your courses is on UFB you already know the demand for that there, no other data will give you better insight.

MichaelPog · ‎08-23-2022

@MarkTrexler757 I completely understand that as a new instructor you would want to know all this, but my question to you would be: What would you do with this information? And also: My bet that technical and leaders courses are the bulk of UFB's revenue. When it comes to topic breakdown on the market place, you have the market place insights tool by the way.

MichaelPog · ‎08-23-2022

The ability to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never learned what you're teaching, and find the best way you would have liked to be introduced to it. Some skills I've had for so long that they seem so trivial to me, but they aren't to my students.

MichaelPog · ‎08-19-2022

Thank you @ChrystieV for the update. So far I see random data everyday in the email. I hope it gets resolved soon.

MichaelPog · ‎08-08-2022

Simple. I see that he placed his course under "Azure Functions " category, so I typed that in the Market place tool, and his course is 3rd in the list.

MichaelPog · ‎08-02-2022

This is great news @Bella. Any plans to expand the auto translation to foreign languages?

MichaelPog · ‎07-30-2022

Hi @RyanJaress. Good luck and welcome to the community! I've been on Udemy since 2018. I saw the first days of this community on this platform after the migration from Facebook, when it was all quiet and empty. I'm glad that has changed. What will help us succeed? Keep the positive vibes and the honest communication between us and Udemy. Other than that, when something is on fire or needs to be improved, you will definitely hear about it 🙂

MichaelPog · ‎07-16-2022

Same here. There have been so many times I wanted to quit, for many reasons. But then getting a message or review from a student saying how great my course was, how much they learned from it after struggling for years, or how they got inspired to learn more about a topic thanks to my course made all the difference to me. Knowing of other instructors' struggles actually, in a weird way is motivating. It's not that I'm happy that other people struggle. It's knowing that you're not alone in it that helps.

MichaelPog · ‎07-04-2022

Thanks @LiamDavin1! What I have is a BOYA Omnidirectional Condenser I bought it 4 years ago and used it only once. It was picking up a lot of background, mainly static actually. That didn't matter too much then because I used it for a promo video so the background music solved the problem. It will matter now though. Are all shotgun microphones condensers? Or you can find a dynamic shotgun microphone as well? I read that condenser mics are mainly good for sound proof studios. My room is fairly well insulated from outside noise but I think it may have some echo issues, which is normally not a problem with the Blue yeti close to my face.

MichaelPog · ‎07-03-2022

@Bella when I click on the register button the date shows up as Jul 15, 2022 12:00 PM.

MichaelPog · ‎07-03-2022

@LiamDavin1 that's a great idea to record both at the same time and compare. I was just wondering about many others who don't seem to be using a lapel mic but I don't see the microphone in their shot at all. So their mic wherever it is it's definitely more than 6 inches away. So I wonder how people achieve such good audio quality with that.

MichaelPog · ‎06-28-2022

@Bella, based on the fact that Udemy doesn't provide us the data about the usage of the practice tests and quizzes I deduce that Udemy doesn't even have this data. Why does Udemy then provide preference to courses with practice exercises if there's no data to back up the assumption students actually use them? There's a question that students can answer when they leave a review "Are there enough opportunities to apply what you are learning?" However this has nothing to do with the absence or presence of practice tests and quizzes. So does the badge go to courses with a high rating on that question? Or just for having many quizzes and practice tests (that potentially nobody uses)?

MichaelPog · ‎06-27-2022

Anyone?

MichaelPog · ‎06-26-2022

I wanted to get people's opinions on the best microphone choice for a half body talking head video. I have a blue yeti as well as a lavalier microphone. I love my blue yeti, and have been using it exclusively. However I'm worried about it being too big and bulky in the shot. And if I move it out of the shot, I'm worried that I'll have to up the gain, which may result in picking up a lot of noise. On the other hand, I don't know much about the lavalier, except that it seems like a condensor mic which also may have its noise picking issues. Any recommendations or experience would be highly appreciated.

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