Intended learners
The following descriptions will be publicly visible on your Course Landing Page and will have a direct impact on your course performance. These descriptions will help learners decide if your course is right for them.
What will students learn in your course?
You must enter at least 4 learning objectives or outcomes that learners can expect to achieve after completing your course.
What are the requirements or prerequisites for taking your course?
List the required skills, experience, tools or equipment learners should have prior to taking your course.
If there are no requirements, use this space as an opportunity to lower the barrier for beginners.
Who is this course for?
Write a clear description of the intended learners for your course who will find your course content valuable.
This will help you attract the right learners to your course.
Course structure
There's a course in you. Plan it out.
Planning your course carefully will create a clear learning path for students and help you once you film. Think down to the details of each lecture including the skill you’ll teach, estimated video length, practical activities to include, and how you’ll create introductions and summaries.
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Start with your goals.
Setting goals for what learners will accomplish in your course (also known as learning objectives) at the beginning will help you determine what content to include in your course and how you will teach the content to help your learners achieve the goals.
Create an outline.
Decide what skills you’ll teach and how you’ll teach them. Group related lectures into sections. Each section should have at least 3 lectures, and include at least one assignment or practical activity. Learn more
Introduce yourself and create momentum.
People online want to start learning quickly. Make an introduction section that gives learners something to be excited about in the first 10 minutes.
Sections have a clear learning objective.
Introduce each section by describing the section's goal and why it’s important. Give lectures and sections titles that reflect their content and have a logical flow.
Lectures cover one concept.
A good lecture length is 2-7 minutes to keep students interested and help them study in short bursts. Cover a single topic in each lecture so learners can easily find and re-watch them later.
Mix and match your lecture types.
Alternate between filming yourself, your screen, and slides or other visuals. Showing yourself can help learners feel connected.
Practice activities create hands-on learning.
Help learners apply your lessons to their real world with projects, assignments, coding exercises, or worksheets.
Requirements
- See the complete list of course quality requirements
- Your course must have at least five lectures
- All lectures must add up to at least 30+ minutes of total video
- Your course is composed of valuable educational content and free of promotional or distracting materials
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Curriculum
Start putting together your course by creating sections, lectures and practice (quizzes, coding exercises and assignments).
Start putting together your course by creating sections, lectures and practice activities (quizzes, coding exercises and assignments). Use your course outline to structure your content and label your sections and lectures clearly. If you’re intending to offer your course for free, the total length of video content must be less than 2 hours.
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Captions
Learners of all levels of language proficiency highly value subtitles as it helps follow, understand and memorize the content. Also having subtitles to ensure the content is accessible for those that are deaf or hard of hearing is crucial. Learn more.
When you add video lectures to your course via the Curriculum you will be able to add captions to those videos here.
Accessibility
Create accessible learning content
Accessibility provides a person with a disability access to — and benefits of — the same information, interactions, and services as a person without a disability in a way that’s sensible, meaningful, and usable. In short, it’s the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers to learning for as many people as possible.
Some may think that accessibility is primarily aimed at helping people with physical disabilities, such as those with hearing or vision loss. However, making content accessible to everyone isn’t just the equitable thing to do, it also helps to broaden your reach so that more learners can benefit from your courses.
Learn more about creating accessible content in Udemy’s Teaching Center.
WAccessibility checklists
To help you create accessible course content, we’ve provided Instructors with recommendations and best practices to consider while creating new courses or updating existing content. Please review these accessibility recommendations and checklists to indicate whether your course meets the guidelines.
Note: while these accessibility guidelines are strongly recommended, they are not a requirement prior to publishing your course. Though content that does meet these accessibility guidelines may benefit from a greater number of learners who could take your course.
Closed captions accessibility checklist
- All auto-generated captions should be reviewed to check for accuracy. Captions must meet a 99% rate of accuracy.
- Any relevant sound effects pertinent to the course must be noted in the captions, example: (Beeps).
- Any non-speech elements such as music are captured in the captions, example: (Jazzy music).
- Verbal delivery style indicators are captured in the captions, example: (Exclaims).
- Captions identify speakers on and off camera.
Learn more about providing accessible closed captions in the Udemy Teaching Center.
Accessibility resources
Creating accessible learning content Creating accessible learning content Planning your course accessibility considerationsCourse landing page
Your course landing page is crucial to your success on Udemy. If it’s done right, it can also help you gain visibility in search engines like Google. As you complete this section, think about creating a compelling Course Landing Page that demonstrates why someone would want to enroll in your course. Learn more about creating your course landing page and course title standards.
Course title
Course subtitle
Course description
Basic info
What is primarily taught in your course?
Course image
Upload your course image here. It must meet our course image quality standards to be accepted. Important guidelines: 750x422 pixels; .jpg, .jpeg,. gif, or .png. no text on the image.
Promotional video
Your promo video is a quick and compelling way for students to preview what they’ll learn in your course. Students considering your course are more likely to enroll if your promo video is well-made. Learn how to make your promo video awesome!
Instructor profile(s)
All visible instructors of this course must complete their profile before the course can be published.
This includes name, image, and a short summary of your background 50 words minimum.
Incomplete
Your instructor biography must have at least 50 words.
Your instructor image is required.
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Create accessible learning content
You'll be able to set your price once your payout method is approved.
Set a price for your course
Please select the currency and the price tier for your course. If you’d like to offer your course for free, it must have a total video length of less than 2 hours. Also, courses with practice tests can not be free.
Pricing
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Refer students
Any time a student uses this link, we will credit you with the sale. Learn more
Coupons
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Course messages
Write messages to your students (optional) that will be sent automatically when they join or complete your course to encourage students to engage with course content. If you do not wish to send a welcome or congratulations message, leave the text box blank.
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Why can't I submit for review?
You're almost ready to submit your course. Here are a few more items you need.
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On the Intended learners page, you must
- Specify any course requirements or prerequisites
- Specify at least 4 of your course’s learning objectives
- Specify who this course if for
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On the Curriculum page, you must
- Have at least 30 minutes of video content
- Have at least 5 lectures
- Have content for all lectures
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On the Pricing page, you must
- Have a course description with at least 200 words
- Have a course subtitle
- Have an instructor description with at least 50 words
- Select the category of your course
- Select the level of your course
- Select the subcategory of your course
- Select what is primarily taught in your course
- Upload a course image
- Upload an instructor image
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On the Intended learners page, you must
- Select a price for your course
Once you complete these steps, you will be able to successfully submit your course for review.