Courses are a way for eligible creators to offer structured learning environments on YouTube. You can create courses directly in YouTube Studio. Your viewers can access your course on YouTube while staying connected to other learners. Learn how viewers can take a course.
Eligibility requirements
- Currently, we are testing courses with a limited group of creators to ensure the best experience once this feature is made more broadly available.
- You can only create or manage courses in YouTube Studio on desktop. Although you can upload videos through any mobile app, you’ll still need to use a desktop to add them to your courses.
- Courses that require payments are in limited beta, and are not available to be created in YouTube Studio at this time.
Manage your course on YouTube
You can create a new course or set a playlist as a course in YouTube Studio. Sometimes, YouTube may automatically classify playlists that provide in-depth, structured learning experiences as courses. If this is incorrect or if you don’t want the playlist to be set as a course, you can remove the courses features from the playlist.
Create a new course in YouTube Studio
You can create a course, then add content by uploading new or existing videos to your course.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- In the top-right corner, click CREATE
New course
.
- From the pop-up, select Create a new course.
- Enter your course details, including:
- Course title
- Description
- Visibility (Public, Unlisted, or Private)
- Select Create to save.
Add videos to a course
You can add new videos or existing videos to your courses.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Go to Content
- On the selected course, click Videos
.
- On the top right-hand corner, click Add videos
- New videos: Click Upload new videos. Then upload your new videos.
- Existing videos: Click Choose existing videos. Then select the existing videos.
Set an existing playlist as a course
You can set an existing playlists as a course.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Go to Content
- On the playlist you want to add, click on the menu
- Click Yes to confirm.
Edit your course details
You can make edits to your course details at any time, including the title of your course, the description, or the order of its videos.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Go to Content
- Hover over the playlist you’d like to edit and click the Edit
.
- You will be brought to the course details page, where you can edit the title, description, visibility, or video order of your course.
- Click Save.
Remove course features from a playlist
You can remove the course settings from any playlist if you don’t want it to be a course.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Within YouTube Studio, click Content
- On the course from which you want to remove course features, click on the menu
- Click Yes to confirm.
Measure your course’s performance on YouTube
To understand your courses’s general performance:
- Open YouTube Studio on a computer.
- In the left Menu, click Analytics
- Select the relevant course from Your Courses(s) card on the lower right side of the page.
Note: If you only have one course on YouTube, this will be the only option. Within this snapshot, you can find views and watchtime and data for your course.
For a deep dive into your course’s performance:
- Open YouTube Studio on a computer.
- In the left Menu, click Analytics
- Select See Courses Analytics.
From this view, you’ll find:
- Overview of your course performance
- Traffic sources
- Audience demographics
- Audience retention metrics
- Revenue data
- And more