Udemy courses are structured into learning sections, which are used to divide the course content by topics. Each section can contain curriculum items like lectures, quizzes, coding exercises, practice tests, and assignments.
This guide outlines how you can add sections, lectures, and video content to your course.
Please note:
- Instructors can create up to 1400 curriculum items for a course (sections, lectures, quizzes, coding exercises, practice tests and assignments), and 800 of those items can be published at any given time.
- Images that are to be added to lectures, must be uploaded into the Udemy platform directly, and cannot be externally linked.
- Udemy employs anti-piracy technology, including encoding videos using a proprietary player and attaching a Udemy watermark to all videos. As a result, the course videos cannot be downloaded in their original format. To ensure instructors have access to their original course materials, we ask that instructors keep copies of their course videos and files in their own computers and devices.
How do I Add a Section to My Course?
To help students better understand how a Udemy course is organized, all lectures in a course should be contained in a section. To add a section to your course please follow these steps:
1. Navigate to the Curriculum page in your course management tools.
2. If you haven’t created a section yet for your course, click the + icon that appears.
If your course already has a section, hover your cursor over the white space just under or above the existing section and click the + icon that appears.
- Enter a title for the section in the designated blank, and as an optional step, add a learning goal that students will achieve in the section (in the blank space under “What will students be able to do at the end of this section?”).
- Click Add Section.
If you need to move the section into a different spot in the course curriculum, simply click on the section and drag it to the new location. Please note that any lectures located in the section will need to be moved separately.
How Do I Add a Lecture to My Course?
1. Navigate to the Curriculum page in your course management tools.
2. On the side, hover your cursor over the grey space within a section, where you want the lecture to be placed. Click the + icon that appears.
3. Next, select the type of curriculum item you want to add. In this case select Lecture.
Note: you’ll see other curriculum item formats like Quiz, Practice Test, Coding Exercise, and Assignment here too, but this article focuses specifically on the Lecture format.
4. Enter a title for the lecture.
5. Click Add Lecture.
If you need to move the lecture into a different spot in the course curriculum, simply click on the lecture and drag it to the new location. If you have a lecture that exists outside of a section, move it to an existing section, or create a new section that’s appropriate for it.
For steps on how to remove a lecture from a course, click here.
How Do I Add Content to My Lecture?
For a new course, all added lectures must have content before you submit the course for review and publication. To add content to a lecture please follow the steps below:
1. Click the + Content button that appears on the lecture item
2. Select the type of content you want to add to the lecture. Article lectures will contain only text, entered from a rich-text editor. Mashup lectures are synced combinations of pdf’s and video (more info can be viewed here). The following steps cover the most common content type on Udemy for lectures, Video.
3. After selecting Video, click Upload to select the appropriate video file from your computer (.mp4, .mov, or .wmv files are supported, and video files should be at least 720p and less than 4.0 GB). If you used the Bulk Uploader to add files, you can choose the tab that says Add From Library.
Please note: do not close the curriculum page until the status bar for the video reaches 100% and the status changes to “Processing”.
Review troubleshooting steps to follow if your video won't upload or finish processing.
4. If your course is still in draft your lecture will be automatically published when you submit your course for review. If you’re adding a lecture to a course that is already published, however, click Publish on the right-hand side of the lecture item.
Steps on how to add resources to your course lectures can be viewed in this article.