Smashcut's Live Video Meetings/Conferences feature allows you to schedule live and group video meetings with students in your program. During a LVM you can:
Share Media - screen assets you've uploaded to your My Files tab
Share and screen assets students have uploaded to their My Files (good for group critique)
Share your Screen
Host student Q&A via the group chat
To schedule your Video Conference, follow these steps:
Go to the Conferences tab in your Dashboard and click on Create Conference
Next you will see the following pop-up window where you fill in all required information:
Choose a NAME for your Conference
Choose type of conference: Group Video Meeting (Up to 30 participants) or Webinar (up to 100 participants).
NOTE: For Group Video Meeting you can also choose duration, but for the Webinars you can’t.
Choose the DATE and TIME (please choose the Conference time here according to your local time). It's required to select DURATION - the shortest increments for a meeting we allow is 15 minutes.
You're also required to select recurrence - no recurrence, daily, weekly, or bi-weekly.
Next click on Invite People or Invite Classes.
First options lets you select participants individually. To select them, click on their names and, after you're done, click on OK.
After you selected the students, they will be listed in the right side of your Conference Details, as shown below:
Invite Classes lets you select the whole class at once.
All set up? Click on Create & Book to create your Conference
Your Conference will be created and you will see its details and the link you and the invited students have to access in order to participate. You can copy the Conference Link and send it directly to anyone in the Discussions Chat.
You also have an Option to Update the Conference or Delete it.
NOTE: All created Conferences show up in invited students' Upcoming Video Meetings tab and are displayed in their local times. Invitees will receive notification when a conference is booked or cancelled as well as reminder.