Teach on Udemy- Become an Online Instructor - Unofficial

There are free tools you can use to create Udemy course videos, but they are not ideal, and will end up taking you longer to produce inferior videos. Let me show you how you can get your first course up, using the full version of Camtasia Studio - the tool most professionals use.

Sound quality can be the difference between a professional Udemy course and a bad one. I recommend you invest in a quality microphone using some of the money you saved this month on the software ;)

Let's have a look at the structure and organization of a Udemy course, so we can work out how to translate our mind map into the course skeleton.

Take the mind map and create a skeleton course, ready for your lectures as you create them.

The majority of your lectures will be video format, and Udemy requires at least 30 minutes of lectures in this format.  This lecture looks at the other criteria for your video lectures.

When you teach, you need to talk to your students. Are you comfortable speaking without any kind of script, or do you need to create a cheat sheet of prompts, or a full script?

One of the lecture types is video slide & mashup.  This lecture explains what that is.

The article type lecture is simple a formatted document that can contain images, links, etc.  I like to make these in Word first, as it gives me a great resource to also offer as a PDF.

Udemy like their instructors to create a quiz or two, to test their students. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a quiz, and the options available to you. In the next lecture, you can try the demo quiz we create here.

This is a short demo quiz.

Please note that in October 2015, Udemy stopped supporting fill-in-the-blank questions, so even though I showed it in the previous lecture, I have removed it from this demo quiz.

The main type of video I record is screen capture, so let's see how to do that with Camtasia, and the settings you'll need to use for Udemy video lectures.

This document discusses monitor resolution and the resolution you need to capture videos at.

When recording you will make mistakes, but don't despair. It gets easier, and I'll show you how to handle errors to maximize your time.

Cover slides give your videos a more professional look, and introduce the lecture.

There are times when you might want to import existing video, or other media into Camtasia. This tutorial shows you how easy that is.

The video editor can be daunting if you are new to video editing. This tutorial looks at the editor, and explains some of the key features you'll use as you edit your own videos.

There are a couple of quick settings to make your sound clearer. This tutorial looks at these settings.

Rather than an abrupt switch between videos in your timeline, you can use transitions to make it a visually smoother switch between the two..

Callouts offer you a way to grab your student's attention. There are a variety available to you, and we'll look at the most useful ones.

Udemy require that all important information is visible to your students, and the zoom and pan feature of Camtasia is perfect for that. This tutorial explores the zoom and pan.

Sometimes there are things going on in your video that your students to not need to watch in real time.  This video shows a nice way to speed up those boring bits.

This video shows you how to render the video in the correct format, so you can upload to Udemy.

A test video is a great way to test out your equipement and even teaching style.

This tutorial shows how to upload lectures and the options you have when you do so.

Lecture descriptions tell your potential students what the lecture is about.  In this tutorial, we'll add a description to a video, and look at what you should include in your description.

Sometimes you need to give your students a document to help them with a particular lecture. It may be something like:

• PDF document
• Text file
• Spreadsheet
• Code example

Lecture resources give you the opportunity to do that, and this lecture explains how to add them.

All courses you create should have a bonus lecture as the final lecture in the course.  This is the main marketing tool that Udemy gives you.

The very last tutorial you should record is the course introduction. Why? Let me explain...

This lecture looks at the course landing page, and how to build that.

Your course needs an image which is shown in the search results on Udemy. A good image will get the attention of searchers, and needs to stand out from the crowd. This lecture shows you how to get a free one designed for you.

This lecture looks at the "target your students" section for your course.

A major source of anxiety amongst new Udemy instructors is how much to charge for their course. Let's look at this.

Once your course is complete, submit it for review.

The course you saw me submit in the previous tutorial was rejected for one reason. Let me show you what that was, and how I fixed it.

You can make certain lectures "Free Preview", which can be used strategically to convert browsers into buyers.

If you link to your own courses the own way, you will leave money on the table. Let me tell you the mistake I made.

How much money do you make per sale of your course? Well that all depends on where the sale came from, and whether a coupon code is involved. This tutorial explains the income structure.

Social Proof is vitally important on Udemy. With it, your course will sell. Without it, your course may go undiscovered.

95%+ of all course sales will be using coupons, so this lecture explores coupons, how to create them and how to find sites to deploy them.

There are a number of Facebook groups that you should join as an instructor. Some of these offer you advice and help, while others offer you opportunities to post coupon codes for your own courses.

With any new course, getting social proof quickly is essential to better rankings, and better conversion rates. This fast-track promo method will help you do that.

I have used something I call the "Leader Course" method to good effect in increasing my earnings on Udemy. Let me tell you how it works.

You now need to keep your courses within a certain price range.

New guidelines for instructors.

Udemy have updated their policy on external links in a course.

This bonus lecture is a resource list with links to the resources mentioned in this course.