The Free Course Experience

Free courses on Udemy offer students a simplified learning experience. This simplified experience limits the features that are available in a free course compared to a paid course. For example, free courses do not offer a certificate of completion, and additional course features like the Q&A and direct messaging are not included in free course enrollments.

All of these features are available in our paid course offerings. If you want access to these additional features, we recommend enrolling in a paid course (note: students who enroll in paid courses via promotional coupons, our gifting option or Udemy credits will also have access to all the course features).

If you have enrolled in a free course prior to March 17, 2020 you will retain access to Q&A and your certificate of completion for those free courses only. All new enrollments in free courses on March 17, 2020 and beyond, will not have access to the additional features.