40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course (Udemy.com)
40 Lessons I wish I knew when I started teaching online.
Created by: Chris Haroun
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Understand solutions to 40 common online teaching problems, including advice on:
- 1: Video Quality Time Savers
- 2: Audio Quality Time Savers
- 3: Computer & Editing Software
- 4: Storage and Backups
- 5: Preparing to Record Your First Course
- 6: Re-recording Beats Over-editing
- 7: What My Video Recording Studio Looks Like
- 8: Everyone Has A Skill They Love and Can Teach
- 9: Teaching from Your Heart First
- 10 How to Know What Course to Teach Next
- 11: Adding Structure to Your Courses
- 12: Adding (Even More) Exercises
- 13: Slide Structure (Less is More)
- 14: Quality Control
- 15: Course Image, Name and Trailer
- 16: Delivery (How You Present)
- 17: Optimal Voice Strategy
- 18: Edutainment Works
- 19: Authenticity
- 20: Best Udemy Instructor to Use as a Role Model for Production Quality and Delivery
How it compares
Against the other 503 rated Udemy courses in Teaching & Academics on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 74% of them
- Reviews1,861#92 of 504 by number of reviews
- Length1.3 hoursshorter than 84% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025more recently than 67% of them
Course Description
This course will help you save time and money when creating your online courses. Learn from my mistakes. Creating an online course is easier than you think; in this course I will humbly teach you how to work smarter (not harder) by discussing 40 tips/best practices I have learned the hard way teaching online over the past 12 months.
Topics we will cover include:
Technology to use to make your online courses
What should you teach?
Structure of your courses
Delivery (how you present/teach)
Promoting your course
Customer/student communications (the customer is always right)
Legal issues (protect your intellectual property)
What to do if your course isn’t selling
The easiest way ever to write a book version of your course!
And much more...
Please learn from my many mistakes teaching online, so I can save you time and money. In this course are 40 mistakes I made and I want you to learn from my many failures so you can get your course up and running quickly. Making an online course is so much easier than you think as you already have everything single thing that you need to build something far bigger than yourself. : )
This course will help you save time and money when creating your online courses. Learn from my mistakes. Creating an online course is easier than you think; in this course I will humbly teach you how to work smarter (not harder) by discussing 40 tips/best practices I have learned the hard way teaching online over the past 12 months.
Thanks!
Chris
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,861 Reviews
Chris Haroun
Award Winning Professor Featured in Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, CNN & Entrepreneur
Please join me for my weekly Office Hours Q&A on my YouTube channel every Thursday from 8am until 10am Pacific time. Here is my bio thanks:
Chris Haroun is the founder & CEO of the 300+ hour online Haroun MBA Degree Program®, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.
He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.
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Reviews
By Miko Szy on 6/27/2022
I have been struggling to launch my business. I joined a business network group, but after all, expecting to learn professional skills from other members. However, after all, there are no real professionals who can lead a startup. I'm going to quit the group, and just stick to your instructions and Udemy. I believe that this helps me to gain the skills I need.
By Melissa Marie on 12/5/2020
Chris is great! Info was good, however, I could tell that some of it may have been a bit older from a few years back, and at the end he referenced 2016...that could just be because of my own learning elsewhere as of now in 2020, but just thought I'd include that observation. Thanks again!
By Nilanjan Mustafi on 8/12/2020
Everything that he mentioned sounded very logical. I already knew about some suggestions that he made, such as using Fiverr. I liked how he provided links to all the websites he uses. However, he said 'right' over and over again, which got annoying after a point. Not something that reduced the quality of the course by any means, just something that bugged me.
By Yousif Alsewaidi on 1/31/2020
It was a great and awesome course, learned a lot of new and awesome things. Mark is an awesome, positive guy, he made me enjoy the course soo much. I have only one minor thing to say: I wish he can better his editing skills because some of the vfx intros aren't that good but thats all
By Philip Murphy on 8/3/2019
This is my very first course on Udemy. In fact I only learnt about it this week. A huge thank you to Chris for offering his time and knowledge like this. I had a few glitches and found it works best on the iPad app. I learnt a lot of new ideas from Chris and I hope to watch a repeat of this course to really absorb the information.
By Tryvonn Powlett on 1/29/2019
I love the way Chris humbly takes glory from himself despite his success on Udemy and can show others doing better than him and highlight their strengths. This course was just simple and engaging, the only thing which was missing for me was video editing for Windows users as I use the Windows platform but otherwise this course is definitely worth a buck!
By Philipp Klein on 7/26/2018
I managed to get the course for free but for the time it has already saved me getting set up, it would have been worth it if it were a paid course! Mostly its a high level view, with many specific tips thrown in. is probably the most useful this way. It is not a comprehensive how-to but I do feel ready to go at it. There are some very nice unexpected bonuses in it too, which I won't give a away what they are!
By Yumei Leventhal, Ph.D. on 11/28/2017
The first few lectures are all on common sense stuff, but well put and organized for beginners. But as the course progresses, there are lots of valuable tips for beginner (and perhaps others as well). The lessons are really comprehensive, covering the entire course creation process--many of which aren't covered in Udemy's own intro courses. Really enjoyed learning from this course! Thank you!
By Vikas Sood on 8/31/2017
Thanks for the knowledge you shared. I would have loved to know how to go about structuring your course, what is the best practice you use to decide on Topics and # of lessons in each topic. Also a bit about offering FREE course vs putting a value (how to decide on price) and the strategy to offer FREE course and then get the users to sign up for more advanced and Paid version of the course.
By Yvonne Newbold on 1/7/2017
Some great ideas and tips that are incredibly useful for people like me, just starting out as an Udemy instructor and about to begin recording my second course. However, the best part for me was Chris's relaxed, friendly and engaging manner. He has a real warmth to the way he presents that it's impossible not to pick up on his passion, enthusiasm and energy and to really want to get started and to make it happen! Thanks Chris.
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