Class starts at ten. Not at ten past.
A teaching room where students and guest lecturers join from a link, the shared screen sits beside the speaker rather than replacing them, and every session comes back as a replay you can actually publish.
Free during the beta. Nothing for your students to install.
The same program frame twice: what the lecturer sees and what the class sees, identical.
Nobody installs anything. Not the students, not the visiting lecturer.
You know how the hour actually begins. Someone can’t find the download. Someone else has the wrong version. The guest lecturer you spent a term securing is on a locked-down machine that won’t let them approve a plugin, and now there are four people in a chat window troubleshooting audio while the rest of the cohort waits.
A link opens in the browser. The green room shows them their own camera, lets them pick the microphone and the speakers, and puts them in the room only once they’re happy. If they picked the wrong headset, they can change it mid-session without dropping out.
- No account, no download. A browser on a laptop and a link is the whole requirement
- Reload-proof. A student whose tab crashes lands straight back in on the same devices
- Host controls. Rename anyone to their real name, add a subtitle, spotlight the person speaking, remove someone who shouldn’t be there
- A private chat for the room: cues, links and questions that never reach the recording
The most reliable way to lose ten minutes of teaching is to spend them on software.
A student’s green room before joining, with camera preview and device pickers.
Built for a class, not for a meeting
A meeting tool treats everything as a conversation between equals. Teaching has a front of the room, and the picture should say so.
The screen sits beside you
A shared screen is a stage source, not a mode. Slides, an IDE or a whiteboard can sit next to your face at a size you choose, instead of a full-screen takeover with your camera shrunk into a corner.
Layouts you change mid-sentence
Move from your face, to slides plus your face, to the student demonstrating their work, to the whole cohort in a grid. One click, nothing restarts.
Titles and lower-thirds
Name the topic on screen, put a visiting lecturer’s title under them, run a title card between modules, or scroll a ticker with the reading for next week.
Media, played properly
Drop in an image or a video with sound and it goes straight into the program, instead of screen-sharing a video player and hoping the audio survives.
Questions in the room
Studio chat for the cohort, and featured comments so you can lift a student’s question on screen and answer it where everyone can see it.
Sessions on the calendar
Schedule ahead with a cover image and a public page, so the cohort has one stable link and a start time rather than a forwarded invitation.
Somebody is always ill, or asleep, or six time zones away
In a cohort, the replay isn’t a nice extra. It’s how a third of the class attends. Which means a session that recorded badly, or didn’t record at all, is a session those people simply did not get.
Every participant’s own camera and microphone are captured at 1080p on their own machine while you teach, and uploaded in the background as you go. A student whose connection drops mid-question doesn’t take a hole in the recording with them.
- Explicit, never automatic. Recording starts when you press Record, so a room that happens to be open is never being captured
- Multiple takes. Stop and restart between modules and keep every one of them
- Crash and disconnect resume. Uploads pick up from exactly where they stopped
- Plain MP4s with no expiry. The archive of a course you taught three years ago is still there
A teaching session recording with a 1080p local master per participant, uploading in the background.
One hour, four moves
The same shape whether it’s a weekly seminar, a guest lecture or a one-off workshop.
- 1
Schedule the session
Add a cover image and a start time, and share the public page. Everyone gets the same link every week, and reload-proof rejoin means a lost tab isn’t a lost student.
- 2
Teach it
Slides beside you, layouts changed as the shape of the session changes, the cohort in chat, and questions lifted on screen when they’re worth everyone’s attention.
- 3
Record it, stream it, or both
Record for the replay. If it should be watchable live, tick the embed for your course site, a hosted watch page, or YouTube. Same program, several destinations.
- 4
Publish the replay
The composed recording is ready to post as-is, and the per-person tracks and transcript are there when you want a proper edit rather than a raw hour.
On the course site, behind your own front door
Sending your cohort to a public video platform means their attention is one recommendation away from something else, and your teaching sits beside advertising you didn’t choose. Drop one iframe into your course site and the session plays inside your own page, live and then as the replay.
If you’d rather not touch the site, use a hosted watch page with your cover image and start time, a single link you can put in the syllabus.
- Unlimited viewers on the embed, so a big open lecture doesn’t cost more than a seminar
- Public watch pages for open sessions, with your cover and start time
- Polls, Q&A and raise-a-hand. Promote a student into the studio to present, then send them back to the audience
- Attendance and watch-time. Who came, how long they stayed, who watched the replay
A live teaching session playing inside a course website, embedded in the page rather than on a public video platform.
The course already exists. It’s just spread across a term of live sessions.
Every module you teach live is footage. With a speaker-labelled transcript you can cut by deleting text, a seminar becomes a tidy twenty-minute tutorial, a term becomes a module library, and the awkward five minutes where the slides wouldn’t load simply doesn’t appear in it.
Before your first session
Do students need an account or an app?
No. They open the link in a browser on a laptop and allow the camera and microphone, or join without either. There’s nothing to install and no account to create, which matters most for guest lecturers on managed machines.
Can I share slides without disappearing from the picture?
Yes. A shared screen is a stage source like any other, so you can put slides beside your camera in the sidebar, side-by-side or picture-in-picture layouts. Full-screen share is a choice, not the only option.
Is every session recorded automatically?
Never. Recording is always an explicit press of the Record button, so an open room is not a room that is being captured. Each press starts a new take, and takes don’t overwrite each other.
What happens when a student’s connection drops during the class?
They reconnect automatically and land back in the room on the same devices. Their local recording carries on regardless, and the upload resumes from where it stopped, so the replay doesn’t have a gap where they were.
Can the session be private to the cohort?
Yes. A session only becomes publicly watchable if you turn on a watch page or add an embed. Otherwise the room is reachable only by the link you hand out, and the studio chat never leaves the room.
Can I run a large open lecture as well as a small seminar?
Yes, and the audience size doesn’t change the bill. Viewers on your embed are unlimited and there are no attendee bands. See webinars for registration, reminders and Q&A on bigger sessions.
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