Unofficial Udemy Student Guide: Courses Free or Dirt Cheap

An overview of the course and instructor evaluation process and how to build a wishlist.

How to use the categories menu to browse the Udemy course catalog.

How to use the search interface to interrogate the Udemy course catalog.

How to quickly filter search results to display the best courses for you.

How to evaluate a course card to determine whether it's worth purchasing.

Evaluate the course and instructor to build your wishlist in preparation for pricing you Udemy wishlist.

Evaluating courses section project.

Section summary.

As the section title suggestion, this section is about finding the courses from you wishlist free or dirt cheap.

Here's an overview of Udemy course pricing to set the playground for finding free and cheap courses.

A description of the two types of coupons and the two ways to redeem coupons.

A reminder of how to display free courses on Udemy.

How to find Udemy free and discount course coupons on the #1 website for free Udemy course coupons. 

How to find Udemy free and discount course coupons on Facebook.

Other sources of Udemy coupons including Internet search, Udemy sales and instructor announcements.

Section Project.

Section Summary.

Find out how to watch your Udemy courses effectively and efficiently.

Here are some notes on how to watch a Udemy course.

How to speed up a Udemy course and jump ahead (as well as other timeline pointers).

Hey, there's even more to note regarding bookmarks.

How to ask personal questions via the Udemy messaging system and public questions via Q&A and other avenues.  Contact me via email at brianjjaxn@gmail.com.

Note that you can keep up with the latest information regarding your course contact by reading the Udemy instructor announcements.  These are purely educational announcements that should provide the latest insights on the product.  Such announcements may be disabled globally an on a course-by-course bases.

Be sure the respond to an announcement if you have questions or would like to create a public discussion.

How to leave a review for a Udemy course.

How to get full refunds for courses you don't like and partial refunds for courses where you find a better deal.  Note that requests must be submitted within 30 days of purchase.  Otherwise, a refund is easy.

For help either contact me via Udemy message, Q&A session or email (brianjjaxn@gmail.com) or for the ultimate source in help refer to:

https://support.udemy.com

Here you'll find answers to all your Udemy questions.

---Brian

Section project.

Section Summary.

How to update your Udemy profile.

I'll be provide information on the Udemy app as soon as I've found the time to figure out how to run and record it.

---Brian

A brief description of how to get the courses in my Udemy catalog as inexpensively as possible.

My Udemy course catalog.

What now?

For the course overview I simply read the course description. If you've already read the course description, go ahead and skip this lecture. Don't worry, the real meat doesn't start until Lecture 2.

In this lecture you'll learn to use the search box which is located in the upper left hand corner of the course display screen. Search the course catalog for topics of interest such as "powerpoint 2013" or "gardening". Udemy returns all applicable search results a screen at a time. Use the filters on the left side of the search result screen to reduce the number of search results. Click a filter while enabled to disable it.

In this lecture you'll learn how to evaluate the course quality of interesting search results. You'll begin your evaluation by scanning the search results for interesting topics with a large number of high quality reviews. Hovering over a course card will display the number of lectures in the course and the number of hours of video. Click on a course card to display the course description.

Watch the promotional video before expanding and reading the course description. Make note of other courses that people looked at and the quality of the reviews. Next you'll read the course biography to get a sense of the instructor. Finally, you'll make not of other courses by the instructor displayed at the bottom of the screen.

In this lecture you'll learn how to display the course instructor's profile page by hovering over the instructor's name at the top of the course description page and selecting "View Profile". Check out the instructor's biography and see what other courses they teach.

When you find a course that looks interesting and passes your quality review, click the heart in the upper right hand corner of a course card or click "Wishlist" button to the right of the course description page. By clicking these buttons you'll be adding the course to your personal wishlist. Later you can review your wishlist by clicking on your face in the upper right corner of each Udemy page and selecting "My Wishlist" from the pulldown menu. Click the "Revmoe from Wishlist" popup link on a wishlisted course card to remove that course from the wishlist.

Note that some courses include lecture titles that end with a "Preview" button. Press the button to preview any of these lectures for free. Click the "Start free preview" link at the top of the course description on the right to begin a five minute preview of any other lectures in the course.