Live-streaming
How to deliver online lessons or events where participants can only interact through moderated chat.
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Overview
Live-streaming (sometimes called live-feeds or webinars) involves broadcasting a live video and audio content over the internet in real-time.
Live-streams can be watched live or can be recorded and made available at a later date.
Live-streaming through Hwb
Practitioners can use Microsoft Teams Live Events to live stream content.
Live-streaming allows you to:
- deliver lessons to your class and learners
- deliver large-scale lectures or assemblies
- deliver webinars
Benefits of live-streaming lessons
- Provides a one-way stream ensuring that only your chosen content is presented.
- Learners can view the live feed but cannot be seen or heard.
Teachers have full control of lesson interaction with optional moderated chat (Q&A channel). - Parents and carers can support learners with live-streamed lessons without being directly involved.
- When recorded, live-streamed lessons enable learners to access lessons at convenient times or to re-visit lessons to clarify or confirm learning.
Points to consider before live streaming lessons
- Read the Live-streaming and video-conferencing: safeguarding principles and practice guidance.
- Everything on your screen will be seen by all. You are ‘live’, therefore carefully consider what can been seen and heard in your environment.
- Where possible, practitioners and learners should use background blur settings in Microsoft Teams.
- By live-streaming you are committing to delivering a lesson on a specific date and time.
- Make sure you keep learners engaged with a variety of content and material.
- Remember to look at the camera and not the monitor.