Live Classes
The “Live Classroom” actually refers to the sessions that are held in the Classrooms section of the platform where teachers can design their own sessions, such as MST sessions, external sessions, and In sessions. Only the teachers have the ability to create either of the live classes.
mySecondTeacher allows teachers to create and conduct live video and text-based classes for the entire class(es) or selected student(s) of a class.
Video-based classes can be conducted via the video-chat feature of mySecondTeacher and text-based classes can be run via Group Chatroom.
Essentially, it is like ZOOM, but all within the mySecondTeacher platform itself (with no time limit).
The teacher can also conduct an In-Class Session that is created to notify the students about the sessions to be conducted physically (it can be in a physical class).
Only teachers can create live video classes. The teacher can choose to invite the whole class(es) or selected student(s) in a class.
Only teachers can create live video classes. To create live video classes
- Click the Create Live Video Session on Teach and Review Performance tab on your (teacher’s) dashboard.
- Select who the class is for
- Entire Class or
- selected students
- Select/Type the Subject, Name of the session
- Choose which platform to use
- mySecondTeacher Classroom (enter a passcode)
- External video conferencing app like Zoom, Google Meet, etc. (enter the link to the session)
- Set time and date.
- Click Continue.
You will be prompted with a screen with the session link. The students will be notified. You can also copy and share the link via messaging apps or email.
(You can also create repetitive classes in the same way. This feature will be available in September 2020.)
No one outside of the mySecondTeacher environment can enter the Classroom, so it is protected from external “bombers”.
Additionally, mySecondTeacher Classroom requires everyone to get logged in to the platform to join the session.
Yes, you can!
All you need to do is to use the “External Link” feature when creating your class using the Create Live Classes feature.
Everything else, including providing students with the correct links, will be done automatically for you.
If you have already created a session, you can simply click on the “Noticeboard” at the bottom of the Teacher’s Dashboard. All your sessions to ‘Today‘ and ‘Tomorrow‘ will be listed.
Click ‘Join Classroom‘ and you will be redirected to the video chatroom, where you can see all your students. You can conduct your classes accordingly.
Yes, the live classes will be recorded automatically if the teacher records the session using the MST sessions so the students can rewatch them later.
Incase, the teacher schedule the session using external link, they can add the “Recording Description/URL” later so that the students have access to it.
As a student, you can see all your sessions as ‘Today’s Task‘ and ‘Upcoming Tasks‘ on the “Notice Board” at the bottom of your Dashboard (Student’s Dashboard)
Click on ‘Join Classroom‘ on the session you want to join. You will be redirected to the video chat page where your teacher will be conducting the classes.
Yes, you can, if you are the teacher who’ve scheduled the classes.
- You will be able to view all your scheduled classes on “Sessions” under the “Classrooms” on the navigation bar.
- Choose the subject from the dropdown menu.
- To delete a scheduled class, simply click the Delete button under that particular class
- To edit, click on the Edit button under that particular class
- Now, you can change class details such as dates, sessions name, and groups for the class.