How to Win the Best Udemy Course and Save Precious Hours

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This tutorial is not mean to promote, insult, show off any course or instructor, not about how to get Udemy coupons, neither it was written by a Udemy instructor himself or anyone that is a part of promoting(me). Every course is valuable and made with a lot of hard works. This course is only an experience based suggestion that could help you to exactly get the course that you needed mostly among thousands of Udemy course collection including "paid courses", "free-by-coupon courses", "discounted-courses", "free-courses" and save your valuable time.

The whole tutorial is something like I've always used to decide before purchasing/enrolling through 100% OFF coupon and Free for limited time courses and believe me, 95% of the time I was right and got exactly what I needed. I have a couple of courses in the same category, which one should I take first? They all have above 4.3 ratings and duration over 3 hours. Taking them all gonna take years, I need to pick up the best one. I'm not gonna show how you get 100% OFF coupons, no, you can find it in the Udemy section of BBHF, I'm gonna show you something even more important I've seen many members in here didn't actually realize and just got despaired when they couldn't get a coupon in time or some gets overwhelmed reading the headline, mostly newbies, trust me, I did a lot share of 100% OFF coupons here but I didn't enroll in them myself, which means I figured out the course wasn't going to give just what it had said. Udemy verifies the course as it's not something inappropriate or irrelevant but not the performance. There are thousands of course in Udemy and even thousands of them offer free coupon and there're a lot of courses in the same category that offer coupons. Wanna know how you can decide which course does exactly what it says? Follow this tutorial and please read the first section.

• Figuring out about New Courses/Instructors:

Situation A: New course but old instructor



In this case, you found out the course is newly released but the instructor isn't new, he has got many other old courses. Let's just say the course is about "Web Development: Angular", scroll down to the "About the Instructor" section and see his average rating. Most of the times, rating between 4 and 4.3 is "OK" and above 4.3 is "great", below 4 is "lacks performance". Whatever it's his "average" rating, you need something more satisfactory.



Click on his name and you will see a bit about the instructor and a full list of his published courses. Try to find out if he has any other courses about "Web developing". Oh, he has! Check it's rating and read the comments, they're giving thumbs up? You can decide now the instructor has expertise in the category " Web development", you're good to enroll (:



Situation B: The course is completely new and instructor is new either



This is really a complex situation when see you got it for free for a limited time but new course no review, new instructor, no way to figure out. Well, there are still ways to decide. Open his biography by clicking his name, now you'll find his social account links and website. Let's just admit the instructor is a programmer/developer, well then he has to have a website that looks super fantastic or pretty good at least. Open his website, what does it look like? Charming, responsive, CSS animations, parallax, dynamic or something that catches your eye? Well, to ensure check his site with Google performance tool, the tool is really great. You'll get the score in no time then you can believe in him/her and enroll. If he's an ethical hacker/pentester you may try to scan his site and check if there's vulnerability on his own site in seconds(Ex. from UpGuard). You can still guess his performance by looking up his social accounts, his Twitter, facebook accounts are the priority.

• Figuring out about Old Courses/Instructors:

It's really easy in this case. You can just view the rating, average rating and about the instructor. You can still get more by following the steps for new courses. Always read the comment, most of the times comments really do help, video/sound quality, advanced knowledge or just novice, old students know better!

• Always Remember:

1. Enroll numbers of students don't matter in most cases. A million students don't mean all of them did really complete the course or even reviewed.
2. Always give priority to the latest course or old course that has been recently updated, Angular has got version 4 now, you don't just want to stick with the older one, do you? Free updated one is even better than paid one.
3. Instructor's biography isn't verified by Udemy. Anyone can write anything. It can't help unless it's verified so you shouldn't rely on it.

• However...
You're free to choose your own need, some courses might not pass my personal test but that doesn't make it a bad course, you should still enroll if you can't find any alternative. New courses have been including to Udemy every day and the average number is increasing. This whole suggestion was to make sure you don't miss anything that you're about to learn.

Hope it helped, happy learning! (: