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Instructor Bio: Quality Standards

What is Your Instructor Bio? Why is it Important?

Your Instructor Bio is your dedicated space to present your expertise, your experience and your personality. It makes up your user profile, and also appears on your course landing page(s).

In a survey of potential students, respondents cited “credibility” as the most important factor in choosing an online course, so it’s critical to establish your expertise in your Instructor Bio to boost student confidence and enrollments.

Please note that your instructor bio will not be visible to people not logged into Udemy, until after you have published a course in the Udemy marketplace.

What You Need to Know

  • Relate your Instructor Bio to your course topics
  • Provide social proof to potential students on why you’re a legitimate expert
  • Keep your bio short, relevant and concise
  • Include a high quality non-pixelated, non-animated image of yourself
  • Don’t include links in your Instructor Bio. Add them to the designated links section of your profile instead. The external links will be publicly visible after you have published a course in the Udemy marketplace.
  • All information in your Instructor Bio must follow our Trust & Safety Guidelines.

Remember, we do check for this as part of our Quality Review Process.

In This Article we Will Cover:

  • Where you can access your instructor bio
  • Best practices
  • Minimum requirements to pass our Quality Review Process
  • How to create your Instructor Bio on Udemy

Where You Can Access Your Instructor Bio

You can access your Instructor Bio by moving your cursor to the top right hand of the page, and then by clicking on your name. You can also head there by clicking on this link.

To learn how to add or change your bio photo, please click here.

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Best Practices

  • Relate your Instructor Bio to your course topics. If you’re teaching programing, emphasize your programming background. If you’re teaching sailing, emphasize your sailing skills. Teaching courses in multiple topics? Write your bio to cover your expertise in all of the topics.
  • Provide social signifiers. Include social proof for your potential students to demonstrate that you are an experienced and legitimate expert. Have you worked with many large, Fortune 500 companies in your career as a consultant? Name them.  Have you published articles in magazines? List them out. Real-world examples of your experience provide depth to your Bio.
  • Keep it comprehensive, but concise. This isn’t the place for 2,000 words on your childhood. Keep your Bio short, to the point, and relevant to your expertise.
  • Include a high-quality image of yourself. Share a non-pixelated, non-animated (no cartoons!) image of yourself to establish more trust with your students. If you are publishing as a company, including a corporate logo is fine.

Minimum Requirements to Pass our Quality Review Process

  • Use the Instructor Bio to highlight your background, experience, and credibility in your field.
  • Don’t include links in your Instructor Bio. Instead, add them to the designated "Links" section of your profile. The external links will be publicly visible after you have published a course in the Udemy marketplace.
  • All information in your Instructor Bio must follow our Trust & Safety Guidelines. 
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