Udemy
Concordia now has a long-term subscription to the Udemy service providing the university’s faculty, staff and students with continued access to Udemy’s learning resources.
Students, faculty and staff can continue to explore Udemy's collection of more than 7,500 online courses providing opportunities to refresh their professional skills and build on their digital capabilities.
The on-demand learning resources of the Udemy platform offer a vast selection of non-academic courses ranging from IT operations, web development, leadership and management, marketing and project management and operations.
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High-quality self-paced learning at your fingertips
Concordians will benefit from the Udemy platform’s high-quality professional course content, access to online courses anytime, anywhere and curated learning resources that can be combined to build customized learning paths.
The Udemy service will enable the university to offer students, faculty and staff the resources for self-paced remote professional development opportunities, complementary course materials, and allow for the substitution of in-person workshops.
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How to sign up
Users must first have an active Concordia email address, provided through their respective student or faculty and staff licensing of Office 365.
Student sign-up
- Visit the My CU Account page on the Student Hub, select the "Experiential Learning and professional development" category from the menu and activate your Udemy account and consent to the privacy terms of service.
- Visit the My CU Account page regularly to confirm that your Udemy account is enabled.
- Once the account is enabled, users need to log in to the Concordia Udemy for Business web page with their Concordia email address to access the selection of online learning courses available.
Faculty & staff sign-up
- Visit the My CU Account page on Carrefour, select the "Training" category from the menu and activate your Udemy account and consent to the privacy terms of the service in the "My professional development" account.
- Once the account is enabled, users need to log in to the Concordia Udemy for Business web page with their Concordia email address to access the selection of online learning courses available.
Please note: depending on the demand, an account may take two or more hours to be enabled on the Udemy service once consent has been recorded. Visit the My CU Account page and check the "My professional development" account regularly to confirm that your account is enabled.
FAQs
Concordia has completed a pilot and now has a long-term subscription to the Udemy service.
Concordia faculty, staff and students will have continued access to Udemy's learning resources.
Users must first have an active Concordia email address, provided through their respective student or faculty and staff licensing of Office 365.
Student sign-up
- Visit the My CU Account page on the Student Hub, select the "Experiential Learning and professional development" category from the menu and activate your Udemy account and consent to the privacy terms of service.
- Visit the My CU Account page regularly to confirm that your Udemy account is enabled.
- Once the account is enabled, users need to log in to the Concordia Udemy for Business web page with their Concordia email address to access the selection of online learning courses available.
Faculty & staff sign-up
- Visit the My CU Account page on Carrefour, select the "Training" category from the menu and activate your Udemy account and consent to the privacy terms of the service in the "My professional development" account.
- Once the account is enabled, users need to log in to the Concordia Udemy for Business web page with their Concordia email address to access the selection of online learning courses available.
Please note: depending on the demand, an account may take two or more hours to be enabled on the Udemy service once consent has been recorded. Visit the My CU Account page and check the "My professional development" account regularly to confirm that your account is enabled.
The Udemy courses are pre-recorded courses you can complete at your own pace.
The HR-sponsored courses are led in a virtual class format. A facilitator leads them and they are interactive (i.e., they allow for facilitator/participants and peer exchanges to take place).
Employees’ professional development should be encouraged. Like in-class training sessions, if you believe the course will prove to be beneficial to your employee’s work and for the department, you can approve work time to allow employees to complete online training during their work hours, in accordance with your operations.
While this functionality is available in Udemy, it will be disabled in the Concordia instance, due to data privacy concerns. Therefore, it is suggested that employees be encouraged to track their own development accomplished during work hours and that you keep a copy for your records.
Most Udemy courses provide a certificate of completion.
You have the right to request employees to obtain the attestation if the course was taken during work hours or requested by the manager.
Yes, there is a Development Plan form/process that has been developed by Human Resources. The form itself can be found on HR’s Professional development planning page on Carrefour.
We highly encourage you to view the recording of the 20-minute session that HR facilitated during the first Office 365 Unconference (August 21, 2020) to learn about the process that supports the use of that form (users will be prompted to login to Office 365).
Making use of the Development Plan form/process is a good start. Additionally, time could be allocated during team meetings (e.g. put it as an agenda item) to discuss professional development. For example, if some of your employees are in the process of completing, or have completed, Udemy courses, you could ask them if they would be willing to share their experience at the next team meeting, or, if there are any courses they would like to recommend to their peers and why, etc.
Another option is to add a synchronous element and have employees with similar training objectives take time together, after completing a module, to discuss what they learned and how they can integrate this knowledge into their work.