Learn to add a live video session to your courses to engage with the customers in your course.
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Course live video
Engage with your course customers with regularly scheduled live sessions. With Course Live Video, you can design your course with a live session to recap the lessons they have learned and develop a course that includes weekly workshops.
With Live Video in your Course Product, you can create a product that serves your customers, strengthens your curriculum, and reinforces the value you have to offer.
Customer experience
Creating a live session in your course will display the course live video section at the top of your course outline.
Your customers can view your live session by opening the Categories tab within their course.
How to go live
Step 1. Add a live video to your course
To add a live video to your course product:
- Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
- Select Courses.
- Open an existing course or create a new course.
- Click Settings from your course product.
- Click Provide a live video session for this course.
- Enter the Title, Session Description, and Schedule.
Note: Adding a schedule can help set expectations for when your course customers can join your sessions. An email can be sent to notify your customers whenever you join your live session. - Click Save to create your live video session:
Step 2. Start your live video session
Start your live video session and notify your course customers that they can join your session.
To go live in your course live video:
- Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
- Select Courses.
- Open the course with your live video session.
- Click Go live in the Course Live Video card.
- Select Yes, notify to notify your course customers through an email notification with a link to join your live session in the pop-up modal.
- Select No, just go live to start your live session without sending an email notification to your course customers.
Step 3. Customize your live session settings
As an admin, you can customize your live video session settings. Adjust your camera, microphone, video settings, and more to customize your customer's experience with your live session.
Camera
Click the camera icon to quickly turn your camera on or off.
Hover over the camera icon to access more camera settings: select the camera used to display your video, set background effects to create a professional setting, and adjust your video and audio settings.
Microphone
Click the microphone icon to quickly mute yourself or prepare to speak.
Hover over the microphone icon to access more audio settings: select the device used for sound input, select the device used for sound output, toggle on noise reduction to dampen unwanted audio, and adjust your audio and video settings.
Share
Present to your course customers by sharing your screen.
Record
Record your live session by clicking the Record icon:
After your live session recording has ended, you will receive an email to your account email address from Kajabi Support containing your recording file, details, and a link to go to your course and access your recording.
Download the recording from your email or go to your course to access your recording.
Example email with recording file:
With your recorded video, you can create a new course lesson by clicking Recordings:
Then, select Create lesson:
React
Send an emoji out to your live video session participants to share your reaction to the conversation:
Chat
Use the Chat icon to send a message to your course members.
People
View and adjust participant settings to control the participant's video and audio, spotlight a participant, or remove from the live session.
By hovering over the People icon, you can create Breakout Rooms and have small-group discussions:
Selecting Breakout Groups, you can set your number of groups, assign participants to your groups, and move your participants between groups:
Leave
Click the Leave icon to end your live session.
How to manage your course live video
Manage your course live video by updating the live video session details, copying the session link to share with your customers, or by disabling your live session.
Course Live Video is made possible with the same video software used within Kajabi Communities. If you are having trouble with your live session, click here to learn how to troubleshoot your live room.
Edit live video session details
Update your live video session title, description, and schedule:
Get session link
Copy and share your session link and share with your course customers. With your session link, you can create email campaigns for your course customers leading up to your session and include your session link to help your customers join your live session:
Disable live session
Want to disable and shut down your course live video? Open more details in your live session and select Disable live. This will open your Course Settings. Simply toggle off Provide a live video session for this course to disable it.
And that’s how you can go live in your Course Product! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!
