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Hello Instructor Community!   We are excited to bring you our 3rd webinar of 2022! On April 27th at 9:00am** PST we’ll be chatting with Community Champions, Mark Lassoff & Diogo Resende about their top post-publishing tips. In this hour-long webinar, you’ll learn some tried & true techniques to successfully launching your course on Udemy.   Space is limited to the first 500 attendees. Register here.   If you have any specific questions for Mark & Diogo, leave them in the comments below.   We look forward to connecting with you virtually on April 27th!    *Please note that this event is being held in English.*    **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 webinar will be available in the community later in the week. ... View more

Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been with Udemy for years, creating coupons is an important part of any instructor's promotional strategy. With this in mind, and in response to the requests we’ve heard from you, we’re excited to launch a new coupon creation tool that will make it easier to build your audience and manage your business on Udemy.   With this new tool, you’ll be able to create coupons for multiple courses with one simple CSV upload. Plus, you can schedule your coupons to go live any time within the current calendar month, and review all your scheduled and active coupons.   To learn more about the feature you can read this post or check out this demo video (English only). ... View more

  Hello Instructors!    We are thrilled to announce that we are hosting our very first Udemy Instructor Community virtual coffee chat of the year, on April 21st at 10 am PST*, and you are invited!    What is a virtual coffee chat?    The community virtual coffee chats are hour-long informal networking sessions held via Zoom. During these sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to network with and get to know other Udemy instructors from all across the world.   How does it work?   Because April is Marketing month in the community, we will spend the first 30 minutes discussing marketing strategies as a larger group. Then you’ll be broken up into smaller groups so that you may get to know your fellow instructors better.   How do I sign up?   Glad you asked! You can sign up right here.   We look forward to seeing you next Thursday, April 21st!   *We understand that this time may not be ideal for all time zones, however, we will change the times of the coffee chat each month to accommodate different locations. ... View more

Hello Instructor Community!   It’s that time again! Time to share the discussions that generated the most discussion while also recognizing some important members of our community.  We’d like to give a special shoutout to Nathan Townsie & Michael Pog who were the most supportive members of the community, giving a combined total of 70 kudos out to Community members last month!     March Community Recap:   Just in case you haven’t visited the community in a while, here’s what you may have missed:   Community Champion, Larry Miller, shared his predictions for Udemy, many of you chimed in on how March sales were going and if you are looking for advice on the Udemy deals program, here you go! We always like to end our Community highlights with a feel-good story, and boy do we have one here! ... View more

Hello Instructors!   We are dedicating this entire month to bringing you the marketing resources you need to succeed!   One of the resources that lives right on the Udemy website is The Teaching Center. This space has several marketing articles to help you market your courses once you hit that publish button.   Here are the articles featured in the Teaching Center:   Engage with your learners Establish your credibility with reviews Make the most of coupons and referrals How you can market your course Improve your course’s search results     What are some of your favorite marketing resources? ... View more

Hi everyone,   We hope your week and your latest teaching endeavors are both going well!    Today, we're excited to highlight two upgrades our Instructor Experience team recently released to make it easier to build and manage your courses.   Section movement in the curriculum editor   Historically, to move a whole section in your course curriculum, you needed to move each component of that section individually. For instructors with a lot of curriculum items in one course, this could be a very frustrating, time-intensive process.   Now, when you move a section, the lectures that are part of it will come along for the ride. Simply drag the section header to its new location – when you let go, the accompanying lectures will appear with it.     Upvote functionality in the Q&A dashboard   You can now see learner upvotes in your Q&A dashboard, add or remove your own, and sort questions by the number of upvotes they've received.    Learners upvote each other's questions when they share the original asker's issue, or when the question contains great insight about the course material. We hope that being able to see and sort by upvotes helps you prioritize your most important questions and better understand where your learners are getting stuck.  As usual, we're eager to hear from you! Give one of these new features a go and let us know what you think in the comments.   Teach on, Chrystie   ... View more

Hello Hello!   Earlier this week Udemy Senior Product Marketing Manager, Katie Bent presented an hour-long webinar "Making the Most of your Instructor Experience" and we've got the replay for you below!   In this hour-long webinar Katie goes over:   The 4 P's of being an online instructor How to make the most of Marketplace Insights The importance of the first 15 minutes of your course How to optimize your course landing page ... View more

Hi everyone,   It's been a few months since we last gave you an update on Personal Plan, our consumer subscription pilot. We've continued to test, research, and learn a lot about the way subscriptions fit into the Udemy marketplace. Our subscriptions team has put together an update in the Teaching Center to share some of what we've learned and where we're headed. Read on if you're curious about…   What makes subscribers different from purchasers How we're planning to evolve marketing and learner guidance for Personal Plan Some of the investments we plan to make to improve the instructor subscriptions experience   As usual, if you have questions or feedback on these updates, we'd love to hear from you here in the Community.   In the meanwhile, we have a question for you!   What's one way you motivate your audience to keep learning? This could be something you do with existing Udemy tools or something you wish you could do on Udemy but can't yet. We'll bring your answers back to the subscriptions team as they continue to build out the roadmap for Personal Plan. ... View more

We're expanding what it means to "Teach with Udemy." In addition to our video courses, we're building a new premium product called Udemy Business Pro geared towards corporate customers including hands-on labs and skills assessments. We’re looking for highly qualified subject matter experts (SME’s) to partner with on these new projects.    This is a great opportunity to contribute to the next stage of Udemy's innovation and have your content featured alongside some of our top instructors. Here's what we’re looking for:   Subject matter expertise in one or more of these technical areas: IT, Cloud, Software/Web Development and Engineering, Data Science & Analytics 3+ years of expertise in the subject 2+ years of industry practitioner experience applying skillset Passion for hands-on learning and excellent instructional quality Willingness to collaborate with Udemy Product/Content teams Openness to feedback and improvement   If this sounds like you, submit your application here!   Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and project timing will depend on the content areas of focus for the UPro team throughout the year. A member of the UPro Content team will reach out to qualified candidates to discuss upcoming opportunities. ... View more

Hello Hello!   Last week we hosted an AMA with Chen Blatman, Director of SEO Marketing at Udemy and as promised, we are giving you access to the replay!   In this hour-long webinar Chen answers the following questions: What are the Udemy SEO considerations that I should be looking at before the course launches? How can I check that my course titles & instructor page are optimized for SEO? Is it possible to rank a new course on 1st page of search results if all other courses on 1st page already have 100’s - 1,000’s of reviews? What can Udemy instructors do to promote their own courses? How has marketing for Udemy instructors changed in the past two years Let us know which one of Chen's tips you found most helpful in the comments below! ... View more

Hello Hello!   Last month we hosted a fireside chat with Udemy CEO, Gregg Coccari. Gregg talked about the past, present & future of Udemy and also answered some of your questions. In case you missed it you can catch up on his chat below!     P.S. We have another webinar coming up on February 24th, with Director of SEO Marketing, Chen Blatman. Learn more here . ... View more

Hello Instructors of Studio U!   We are excited to bring you a wonderful resource created by Chris Haroun aimed at helping you create an amazing promo video for your course! Let us know what you think in the comments below!   ... View more

Happy New Year!   It’s a new year and a new month 🎉 but before we jump full force into 2022, we want to take a moment to recap some of the top threads & community members from last month, December 2021.    We’d like to give a special shoutout to: @GaneshPadal341,  @TrevoirWill, & @kararonin ! Thank you for contributing to the community!     December Community Recap:   In December we celebrated YOU, our wonderful Udemy instructors, and put together this 2021 in Review video with the help of our Udemates.   Speaking of celebrations, a huge congratulations goes out to KarolyNyizstor who purchased his dream home and to Rahul Iyer who crossed the $250k milestone. What inspiration!     If you are looking for an in-depth article about running Google Ads, Joshua George posted a great case study.   And lastly, we hosted our very first Udemy End of Year Awards and you can see the winners list here.   Will 2022 be your best year yet? Only time will tell!   ... View more

Hello Instructors!   It's Wednesday and those hump day vibes are in full effect! 😅   Drop a GIF below that shows how you are feeling today! I'll post mine in the comments! ... View more