YouTube launched Courses for content creators. YouTube Content creators can now create paid educational courses using the YouTube platform and earn more money from their subscribers.
YouTube is bringing more ways for content creators to make money online.
Not only YouTube partner programs, but there are already multiple ways a Youtuber can earn money.
Now, YouTube is expanding its monetization feature with course creation. YouTubers have the option to launch free courses to charge one-time free.
YouTube Course Creation:
YouTube's Courses feature is expanding to more creators. Content creators can create a course on YouTube using YouTube Studio on a desktop. This makes it easy to structure the course pattern and create a multi-layered online course.
What are the features of YouTube Courses?
- Course Badges: YouTube courses will display on Watch Next, Search Results, Watch Pages, Playlists, and home feeds.
- New tab: Creators can access "Courses" using a dedicated tab in Studio.
- New Placement: Courses can be featured on https://www.youtube.com/feed/courses_destination.
- Quizzes: Content creators and design quizzes.Discussion: Discussion allows users to comment and engage with the course creator.
- Completion badge: Viewers get a completion badge after watching all the course videos.
- Information panel: The information panel displays course duration, progress, links, and content details.
How to Create a Course on YouTube?
- Go to YouTube Studio.
- Click on "Create."
- Choose "New Course."
- Fill in all the necessary details.
- Click on "Create" and save.
Note: Only a limited number of content creators have access to course features in YouTube Studio. YouTube Users can purchase courses using "Google Play"
How to Find a Purchased YouTube Course?
- Go To "Settings"
- Click on "Purchases and Memberships."
- Find your course under the "Purchase" section.
How to Request a Refund?
Viewers who are not satisfied with the course and have not watched any video can ask for a refund within 7 days.
- Go to "Settings."
- Click on "Purchases and Memberships."
- Choose the course you want to cancel.
- Click on "Problem with purchase?"
- Follow the relevant steps to ask for a refund.
Rolling Out Feature:
YouTube Courses is a feature that is gradually rolling out. YouTube is carefully selecting content creators who can access this feature.
YouTube will analyze the result and will gradually roll out this feature to more creators.
Conclusion:
YouTube courses are a great initiative from Google to expand content monetization for creators and premium content access for users.
It is also a way to ensure that only legitimate courses get monetization opportunities.
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