Live Streaming Assemblies

[Foresthippy]

Hi,

 

I have been asked to look at options for streaming assemblies to home learners, possibly up to 300 at a time.

 

We use teams as a home learning platform, but our upstream bandwidth is very low (2 Mbps) so it would appear that to use live events, we would need to use a CDN/SDN which appear to be ludicrously expensive.

 

Google meet and zoom have also been mentioned, but I wondered what others are using for this purpose?

 

Thanks,

John

[Steve21]

We don't live stream them, as we find it's better to pre-record them, and then give out the links to let people access them when they can (Thinking of students who might not have pc access all day etc)

 

Steve

[Danp]

Hi,

 

I have been asked to look at options for streaming assemblies to home learners, possibly up to 300 at a time.

 

We use teams as a home learning platform, but our upstream bandwidth is very low (2 Mbps) so it would appear that to use live events, we would need to use a CDN/SDN which appear to be ludicrously expensive.

 

Google meet and zoom have also been mentioned, but I wondered what others are using for this purpose?

 

Thanks,

John

 

You need the paid version of Google Meet to Live Stream. Also, you are limited to 100 attendees in a standard Meet.

 

Pre-record is easier. Otherwise, you can live stream to YouTube for free, then share that link.

[Roberto]

Hi,

 

I have been asked to look at options for streaming assemblies to home learners, possibly up to 300 at a time.

 

We use teams as a home learning platform, but our upstream bandwidth is very low (2 Mbps) so it would appear that to use live events, we would need to use a CDN/SDN which appear to be ludicrously expensive.

 

Google meet and zoom have also been mentioned, but I wondered what others are using for this purpose?

 

Thanks,

John

 

Does it really need to be live? If your bandwidth is inadequate to stream live on one platform, it will be an issue on all. Zoom will allow you to stream to Facebook, YouTube and the like and you can share the sharing site link, for example, and that may help a bit. Similarly, with Teams Live Events your output would go live to M365 and viewers would connect to that rather than back to on-prem... but that first hop from on prem to whatever would be my concern with live streaming.