This article provides instructions on how to download your course videos through the instructor preview mode. 

• Learn how to access your course ID or URL for your course.

Please note: 

• 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. 
  • We ask that instructors keep copies of their course videos and files on their own computers and devices to ensure instructors have access to their original course material.
• Due to certain platform security measures, the ability to download a lecture video on a computer may not be available for all courses.

How to download your videos

To download a course lecture video, please follow the steps below:

1. Preview your course content through the course player (Learn how)

2. Click the gear icon at the bottom of the right of the course player to access the course settings.

3. Click Download Lecture

This article outlines how you can navigate the course management dashboard for a course in the building stage, as well as after it has been reviewed and published.

Table of contents

• Navigate the course management dashboard for course creation.
• Navigate the course management dashboard for published courses
• Manage general course settings 

Navigate the course management dashboard for course creation

The course management dashboard walks you through the course creation and publication process step-by-step. Each page contains tips and information to help you complete that section. As you complete and save each section, you’ll see those items checked off on the left hand side.

After you complete each section and course requirement, you can submit your course for review.

Plan your course

This section helps you plan your course and prepare your equipment before you start adding content.

• Intended learners: Help your learners decide if your course is right for them, by setting out learning objectives or outcomes, prerequisites, and information about intended learners.
  • Learn how to define your ideal learner audience.
  • Learn more about creating effective learning objectives.
  • Review instructions for managing information on the Intended Learners page.
• Course structure: Provides resources to help you prepare your course outline, including best practices and course requirements.
• Setup & test video: Provides resources for setting up your video and audio equipment. You can also create a test video and receive personalised feedback from our experts.
  • Learn more about creating and submitting test videos.

Create your content

In this section, you’ll build out your course content and select course settings.

• Film & edit: Provides tips and resources to help you create your video content.
• Curriculum: Create your course sections and add lectures and practice activities. You must have a minimum of 5 lectures, 30 minutes of video content, and a title and content for all curriculum items.
  • See how to add sections, lectures, and video content to your course.
  • Note: You’ll need to wait for any uploaded videos to finish processing before you can submit your course for review.
• Captions (optional): Create, add, and manage captions for your video content.
  • Learn more about managing captions on your videos..
• Accessibility (optional): Provides checklists and resources to help you create accessible closed captions, audio content, and course materials.

Publish your course

In this section, you’ll prepare your course for publication, including your preferences for pricing and promotions.

Course landing page

Create your course landing page to entice learners to enroll in your course. You need to complete each field before you can submit your course for review. See best practices for creating your landing page.

• Course title and subtitle: Inform students of what they’ll learn and how they’ll apply that skill.
  • Review our quality standards for course titles.
  • See how to change the title of a course.
• Course description: Explain in more detail what your course is about.
  • Review our quality standards for creating course descriptions.
• Basic information: Add the course language, the learning level, category, and primary topic.
  • See how to enter basic info for your course.
  • Learn about adding and proposing course topics.
• Course image: Add an image to provide potential learners with a snapshot of your course.
  • Learn how to upload an image for your course.
  • Review our quality standards for course images.
• Instructor profile(s): Your profile and the profile of any visible co-instructors in the course must be completed with a name, a photo, and a short bio (50 words minimum).
  • Review our quality standards for an instructor’s bio.
• Promo video: The promo video field is optional, but we highly recommend that you create one as they can help boost enrollments.
  • Learn how you can upload a promo video to your course.
  • Review our quality standards for promo videos.

Pricing

Set the currency and price tier for your course. Note: You must become a Premium instructor if you want to charge a fee for your course.

• Learn how to set the price of your course.

Promotions

Create coupons and get your course referral link to share and promote your course.

• Learn how to promote your course with coupons and referral links.

Course messages

Create automatic Welcome and Congratulations messages to send to your learners when they join or complete your course. 

• Learn more about configuring course messages.

Submit your course for review

After you complete the above sections, click Submit for review to begin the Quality Review process. 

• Learn more about submitting a course for review.

Navigate the course management dashboard for published courses

Once your course has been published, you can use the course management dashboard to manage your course content and settings. 

Course Editing

You can use the Course editing section to update your course content. 

These tabs are the same as the course creation options detailed above:

• Intended Learners
• Curriculum
• Course landing page
• Captions
• Accessibility 

In addition, the Udemy feedback tab displays any course feedback provided by the Udemy review team. 

• Learn more about viewing course feedback.

Course management 

You can use the Course management section to update the settings for your course.

These tabs are the same as the course creation options detailed above:

• Pricing
• Promotions
• Course messages

 In addition, you can use the Students tab on published courses to:

• Review course enrollment requests, if your course is invitation-only.
  • See how to make a course enrollment page private.
• See details of the students enrolled on your course and export a list.
  • Learn more about accessing your student list.
• Message your students directly.
  • Review the rules and guidelines for messaging students.

Manage general course settings 

To access the course management Settings page, click on the gear icon at the top right of the course management dashboard. 

You can use the Settings page to manage:

• Your course status
  • Learn how to delete, unpublish, or republish a course.
• Email notifications
  • Learn more about instructor account notifications.
• Enrollment (Privacy)
  • Learn how to make a course enrollment page private.
• Instructor permissions
  • Learn about managing instructor permissions.

Creating a well-written course description is one of the most important tools for converting new students into your course. This article explains how to create and add a course description to your course. 

• Learn our best practices and quality standards for course descriptions. 

Adding a Course description

1. After logging into your Udemy account, navigate to your Instructor View (Learn how).

2. Scroll to the course card and click Edit / Manage course. 

For published courses, this will be located on the left of the course card. 

3. If your course has not been published, click on Course landing page under Publish your Course on the left. If your course is live, this will be under Course editing.

4. You can insert your description under Course description. The description must be at least 200 words long (50 characters for descriptions entered in Japanese).

Follow our writing guidelines for your description.

5. Click Save at the top to confirm changes.

Preview your Course Description

You can preview your course description while editing your course under Description on the course landing page.

• Learn how to preview your course landing page.

Lectures can be unpublished and deleted at any time. Please remember, however, that learners have lifetime access to courses. As a result, lectures should not be deleted, unless they're replaced with new and improved content.

• Learn how to update content for an existing lecture.

How to unpublish a lecture

If you wish to unpublish a lecture, so that learners will no longer be able to access it, please follow these steps.

1. On the Curriculum page, click on the arrow icon that appears to the right of the lecture title.

2. Click Unpublish.

How to republish a lecture

Once you’re ready to republish the lecture, simply follow the same steps outlined above and click Publish.

How to delete a lecture

If you need to delete a lecture from your course, please follow the steps below:

1. On the Curriculum page, hover your cursor to the right of the lecture title 

2. A trashcan icon will appear to the right

3. Click the trash can

4. Confirm that you wish to continue with deleting the lecture

Please note that the lecture and its content cannot be restored once the lecture has been deleted.

Updating content for an existing lecture

Learn how to edit and update content for an existing lecture.

Maintaining an updated course is an important part of teaching online. Sometimes, a single lecture needs to be updated, but the lecture details can stay the same. Instead of deleting a whole lecture only to create a new one, the lecture content can be replaced.

Uploading new content to an existing lecture

Updated content must match the existing lecture type. In other words, if the lecture was originally a video lecture, the new content must also be video. If you would like to create new lecture type, delete the lecture and create a new one.

To update the content of an existing lecture, please follow the steps below:

1. On the left side of the Course Management page, click Curriculum

2. Scroll to the lecture that you wish to edit

3. Click the black dropdown arrow on the right to view the lecture details

4. Click Edit Content 

5. Select the new content

6. The content will finish processing automatically

This article explains how to add, move, or preview information on the Intended learners page, which is publicly visible on your Course Landing Page. This description will have a direct impact on your course performance and help learners determine if a course is right for them.

• Learn how to define your audience and course objectives.

Adding descriptions on the Intended learners page

1. After logging into your Udemy account, navigate to your Instructor View (Learn how).

2. Scroll to the course card and click Edit / manage course. For published courses, this will be located on the left of the course card. 

3. If your course has not been published, click on Intended learners under Plan your Course. If your course is live, this will be under Course editing.

4. On the Intended learners page, you can add descriptions for your intended learners. For additional descriptions, click Add more to your response to generate additional lines. 

Please note: You must enter at least 4 learning objectives or outcomes that learners can expect to achieve after completing your course.

5. Click Save to confirm changes. 

Moving or deleting an answer

To move an answer, click on the triple bar icon on the right and drag it into a new position. To delete an answer, click the trash bin icon on the left. Then, click Save. 

Please note: Answers can only be moved within the section of the question it was originally created for.

Preview answers on the course landing page

Under What you’ll learn, you can preview your description for intended learners while editing your course.  

• Learn how to preview your course landing page. 

This article outlines how you can preview your course landing page or the course content in your course player. 

Previewing the course landing page

By previewing your course landing page you see how your course page appears to learners who are interested in taking your course.

1. After logging into your Udemy account, navigate to your Instructor View (Learn how).

2. Scroll to the course card and click Edit / manage course. For published courses, this will be located on the left of the course card. 

3. If your course has not been published, click on Course landing page under Publish your Course. 

If your course is published, this will be under Course Editing.

4. Click Preview at the top, and you will be taken to the course landing page.

Previewing course content

You can preview your course content in the course player, which learners will see as they progress through your course. 

1. Follow the instructions above to navigate to Edit / manage your course.  

2. If your course has not been published, click on Curriculum under Create your content on the left. If your course is published, this will be under Course editing. 

3. To view your course player, click Preview at the top. 

You can also preview certain curriculum items by clicking on the downward arrow next to the content. Then, click the Preview button.