Teach on Udemy - Teach Online & Course Creation

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Learning objectives

Use camtasia studio to record screen capture video and edit into a final course video
Navigate around the udemy system, identifying good course opportunities
Pick and use the correct software and equipment for creating high quality video tutorials
Plan out a course and understand how to structure the course.
Use several different lecture formats to deliver the course content
Add quizes to a course, to test the understanding of their students
Add a variety of different effects, transitions and callouts to a video, to better engage the student
Effectively use zooming and panning to make sure students on mobile devices can easily follow the course as well

Successfully submit a course to the udemy review team and get it accepted
Correctly price their course
Understand the importance of free preview lectures
Create and deploy coupons
Create hyperlinks to their course, ensuring they'll get maximum royalty on any sale
Promote their course using a variety of free methods
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Use camtasia studio to record screen capture video and edit into a final course video
Navigate around the udemy system, identifying good course opportunities
Pick and use the correct software and equipment for creating high quality video tutorials
Plan out a course and understand how to structure the course.
Use several different lecture formats to deliver the course content
Add quizes to a course, to test the understanding of their students
Add a variety of different effects, transitions and callouts to a video, to better engage the student
Effectively use zooming and panning to make sure students on mobile devices can easily follow the course as well
Successfully submit a course to the udemy review team and get it accepted
Correctly price their course
Understand the importance of free preview lectures
Create and deploy coupons
Create hyperlinks to their course, ensuring they'll get maximum royalty on any sale
Promote their course using a variety of free methods
Show more
Show less

Syllabus

This section introduces the student to the course and the instructor

Let me introduce myself and the course you are about to take. As part of that introduction, I'll show proof of my own Udemy earnings, and remember, these are from working part-time on my Udemy courses.

In the last video, we were still a week away from the end of May. So how did May end up?

I've now been an instructor on Udemy for over 5 years, so let's see how my career on Udemy panned out.

Udemy is a well established platform for online learning and this lecture will show you just how popular it is and why you need to be teaching your courses on Udemy. We'll also have a look at the Udemy interface, and highlight the features you'll need to find the best possible course for you to teach.

As instructors, you can create courses that are free or paid. There are differences between these types of course, other than the obvious, and this lecture highlights an important difference.

Before we start planning a course, it is important to know a few quality guidelines set out by Udemy.

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.

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.

There are times when you might want to add audio only.

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.

The bonus lecture is your opportunity to market your own products and resources, but there are rules you need to follow.

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.

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.

Career center

Learners who complete Teach on Udemy - Teach Online & Course Creation - Unofficial will develop knowledge and skills that may be useful to these careers:

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Video Producer Instructional Content

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Curriculum Developer

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eLearning Specialist

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