Udemy Business 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.
Please note:
- Course creators 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 Business platform directly, and cannot be externally linked.
This guide outlines how you can add sections, lectures, and video content to your course.
- How do I add a section to my course?
- How do I add a lecture to my course?
- How do I add content to my lecture?
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. Click the + Section icon.
3. Enter a title for the section in the designated blank, and as an optional step, add a learning goal that learners will achieve in the section (in the blank space under “What will students be able to do at the end of this section?”).
4. 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.
How do I add a lecture to my course?
1. Navigate to the Curriculum page in your course management tools.
2. Click the + Curriculum item icon within the section to add the lecture.
3. Next, select the type of curriculum item you want to add. In this case select Lecture.
Please 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.
How do I add content to my lecture?
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. 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.