Create an Udemy Course with Little Effort

In this article, I will show you how to create your first Udemy course focusing on technical aspects and generate your first revenue.

Udemy is a popular online education platform with millions of users. If you are a content creator, you are probably looking for guidance on what software to use in the beginning, how to find a topic, and how best to present your course. I answer all these questions in this article.

Create an Udemy account.

First, you need to go to Udemy.com and create an account. Now, this sounds like it’s pretty easy, but it’s quite tricky. Once you create an account, you will only have a student account. That means you can only watch video courses through this account but not upload them.

So we have to do something additional. Once you are logged in and you are in your account, click on lecturer on the left side of your profile. Then, switch from a student account to a lecturer account.

Now, you have a dashboard where you can control everything. Your messages you send to your students, course creation, and some more tools that will help you build your Udemy course business.

Find a niche for your Udemy course.

Now, we come to the preliminary work before we start creating our course, and that is to find the perfect niche. In the beginning, I recommend you create an Udemy course in your field or expertise. Next, we use a tool from Udemy with which we can see if the niche is profitable at all and if we can make money with this niche.

We look in our dashboard on the left and select Tools from there.

Next, we click on the tool “Platform Insights”.

Then, we type in our topic/niche in the search bar.

Once we enter our topic, we get insights from Udemy on how the topic is received there on the platform and how profitable it is. This allows us to plan ahead of time how we go into that niche.

If you want to get your customers only organically through Udemy, the search queries should be high and the number of courses low. With these values and numbers, you can start making your strategy and create your Udemy course.

Step-by-step guide for your first Udemy course

Now, we come to the exciting part of this article—the creation of our first Udemy course. First, we go into Udemy, click on Create Course, and go through the steps of Udemy.

Then you come to the following page — there, you go through all the points and write your course structure. Once you are done, and your structure is set, we come to the next step. The individual points are self-explanatory, and Udemy helps you to design them well.

After we have a course structure and have written it on Udemy, we now fill the first sections and lessons with content. You can create these with PowerPoint presentations or what I recommend with Prezi.

How you design and build your content is completely up to you, but you should always have your structure in mind and what topics the student needs to work through to get to the next section.

Software

What software should I use to build our Udemy course business? In this short section, we will address this question.

PowerPoint/Google Presentation + OBS

This combo is perfect for those who don’t have the capital to record courses. Most computers already have Microsoft software installed, even if it is outdated. If this is the case for you, you should also install OBS.

OBS is a software with which you can record your screen and also a video of yourself. If you want to show yourself in your courses and present your content, this is a good option.

There are many tutorials on YouTube on how to set up OBS with scenes so that you can record a video of yourself and your screen. If you don’t have PowerPoint, Google Presentation is a good alternative.

Prezi

This software is good for all those who want to make their presentations beautiful and are looking for an all—in—one solution. The course creation with Prezi is just too easy, and with the many gestating and transitions, it makes your course a real eye-catcher, and the student is not bored. Working with this software is also a lot of fun, and it is also quite affordable.

Submit the Udemy course.

We now come to the last section of this article. One of the biggest advantages of being a student on Udemy is that Udemy audits all courses.

However, this also means that you should create good content, and your course should contain at least 2 -4 hours of content. If you can’t do that — you should stay away.

If you want to share the knowledge that you have in this area and that the students also benefit from it, then please create only high-quality content.

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