Teach a thousand people at once, with one voice and a chat that behaves
For seminars, webinars and open sessions where you present and the audience watches. One-way video by construction, a chat you moderate, and recordings and resources kept with the session afterwards.
Live teachingWho it is for
- A teacher running a seminar or an open session for a large audience
- An institute running a free introductory session to fill its batches
- Anyone presenting to more people than a video grid can hold
How it is used
- Schedule the sessionCreate the classroom in broadcast format, set the dates and the price, and open enrolment.
- Connect your streamTake your ingest credentials into whatever you present with, and watch the status until it is live. The audience cannot arrive before that.
- PresentTalk to the audience, watch the chat, and hand out resources as you go. Your own preview shows exactly what they see.
- End it properlyOne action stops the stream, ends the class and finalises the recording, which is then published with the session.
What it does
One-way by construction
A viewer in a broadcast has no microphone and no camera. That is not a setting somebody can leave switched off; the platform refuses to issue a viewer the credentials to publish at all.
- The teacher presents; the audience watches
- No viewer microphone or camera, enforced when the join credential is issued
- No moderation panic when a stranger unmutes, because they cannot
- Your own preview of exactly what the audience sees
Chat that stays usable at scale
The audience talks in chat. Each person has their own rate limit, so one enthusiastic viewer cannot flood the room, and a throttled message tells its sender rather than vanishing.
- Live chat for the whole audience
- A per-person rate limit, not a shared one
- A rate-limited message says so instead of disappearing
- Moderators who do not consume a paid seat
Resources instead of homework
A broadcast is not a classroom, so it does not pretend to set homework. It hands the audience what a presenter actually hands out: slides, worked papers, link sheets.
- Slide decks, worked papers and link sheets attached to the session
- Lesson notes kept alongside
- Recordings published to the session afterwards
- Classwork and homework deliberately refused
Reliable start and a clean finish
Students cannot arrive before you do, and ending the broadcast really ends it: the stream stops, the class closes, and the recording finalises.
- The audience door opens only once your stream is actually connected
- Live ingest status you can watch while you set up
- One end action that stops the stream, ends the class and finalises the recording
- A player that reports an error instead of showing a dead frame
Sold like a cohort
A broadcast series is bought once, for the run, on your own payment account, with the same enrolment controls a batch has.
- A one-time price for the series
- Start and end dates for the run
- Enrolment window and closed-enrolment messaging
- Checkout on your own payment gateway account
How it is built
A viewer cannot be given a microphone
The token that lets someone publish audio or video is refused outright for a broadcast audience. Silence is a property of the room, not a setting that could be wrong.
The audience is your enrolment
There is no second, separate viewer cap that could refuse someone who has already paid. The number of people who bought the series is the only ceiling that matters.
A moderator does not take a seat
The viewer count is the number of paying people admitted. Your own moderators do not eat into what a student paid for.
An abandoned broadcast still finalises
If your machine dies mid-session, a sweep ends the class after a grace period through the same path you would have used, so the recording is finalised rather than lost.
Three live formats, side by side
| What differs | 1:1 | Batch | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is on camera | Teacher and the one student | Everyone in the batch | The teacher only |
| Audience size | One | A capped cohort | Any number |
| How students pay | Monthly, cancel any time | Once, for the cohort | Once, for the series |
| Runs between dates | No, it continues | Yes, a cohort window | Yes, a cohort window |
| Students can speak | Yes | Yes | No, chat only |
| Homework and classwork | Yes | Yes | No, resources instead |
| Seat limit | Not applicable | Optional cap, with a waitlist | Your enrolment is the limit |
Looking for something else?Want the audience to speak, submit homework and be graded?
Batch live classesQuestions we get asked
How many people can watch?
As many as you have enrolled. There is no separate viewer wall that could turn away someone who has already paid; capacity is a matter of the video plan your organisation is on.
Can viewers speak?
No, and not by accident either. The platform will not issue a viewer the credentials to publish audio or video, so a broadcast is one-way by construction.
Can I set homework in a broadcast?
No. A broadcast hands out resources such as slides and worked papers instead. If you need homework and grading, use a batch.
What if my stream drops?
The player reports the error rather than freezing, and if the session is abandoned entirely it is ended properly after a grace period so the recording still finalises.
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