This article is for faculty and staff who wish to host live events on Teams.
A Teams live event is a lightweight alternative to Stream, which requires external hardware or software encoder. In a Teams live event, users can create events and invite presenters/panelists to participate on their own devices.
Producer Capabilities
When producing in teams, producers have the following capabilities:
Select video feeds from other presenters and send them to the event
Chat with other producers and presenters
Start and end the live event
Once you stop the live event, you can't restart it.
View the live attendee count
Share their screens (desktop or a window) into the event
Mute all other producers and presenters
Join the audio from a PSTN phone (dial-in or self dial-out)
Moderate the Q&A (if configured for the event)
Have a Yammer conversation (if configured for the event)
Download recording
Download attendee report
Producing the Live Event
Select Calendar
, then the live event, and Join.
You will have the options to adjust your camera and microphone before joing the event as a producer
You also have the option to join as an attendee if desired
From the bottom of the screen, choose the camera or screen to preview it in the queue (on the left) before sending it to the live event
To appear in the bottom panel of the screen, the camera must be turned on or the screen must be shared by a presenter.
Select Send Live to send the feed from preview to the live event
Select Start to begin broadcasting live
If the screen or camera sharing is stopped, everyone will see Live event will resume in a moment
To end the event, select End
Once you end the event, you can not restart it