001in this video we're gonna look at how to set up Google Hangouts for livestream now just to clarify the difference between a Google Hangouts meet and a Google Hangouts livestream a meet is a two-way interface you can obviously Moo people and shut off their webcams but it's still a one-to-one in the sense that they connect to the session you host the session and there is interaction between the two of between the parties I shouldn't say the two because it can be up to a hundred users but between the members of that meeting in a livestream you are essentially posting a video link and that video link is accessible by up to a thousand people however there is no communication there is no two-way there is no back and forth meaning there's no chat and there's
002no way to have dialogue via the phone violin or via the computer during the session so it's it's another way to do a screencastify but live more or less learner gets started we're going to go to Google Calendar because in order to set a live stream you have to have it set up in advance using Google Calendar so I'm going to go into Google Calendar and again I'm going to pick today it is once again Lee when I'm making these videos but I'm gonna go ahead and set up ten o'clock meeting and once again I'm going to give us a name to pull out sample class and I'm gonna use the more options as we did for creating a normal hangouts in advance I'm gonna make sure my times are set correctly my date and
003time specifically and then I'm gonna come down once again to the camera and I'm going to choose hangouts meet now I'm going to use the expand option here the down arrow to expand this and you'll notice that all of this is exactly the same as we did for setting up a hangouts meet which is that two-way peace in advance but I'm going to instead set up a live stream so you'll notice that the URL changed and the you now get this different link this stream me Google that is set up and this if we open this in a new tab and look at it is simply a stream interface there is nothing this is what your students would see there is nothing in there for them to interface with you'll notice that they don't have
004the toolbar at the bottom they don't see the members of the event they don't see any of that it is strictly a view only experience for the student from your perspective it looks the way it would normally so you would come in here and you would either shut off your camera you would join and now the stream is you get a message that the organizer scheduled this mean be streamed would you like to start streaming so you click start streaming and yeah it start streaming and at this point you'll notice that you have this little live indicator here and if we switch back to what the students see we should be able to go live and we can see that we are now live so again I've got my camera shut off otherwise you would
005see the shot of the side of my head from my webcam but we're now live so anything that we're doing here we're saying we're showing we're presenting is all now accessible through this live stream link for as many participants as you'd like to to be a part of it keep in mind again the live streams are just a one-way download you can still in addition to students having the live stream link you can still have them join the session however obviously anyone who's using the live stream gets a very slim down you only view at this point the only difference between the normal event or the normal stream the normal Google Hangouts meet and a live stream is is that you want to stop the live stream so if you hit the three dots in
006the corner you want to stop streaming and then this will say are you sure you want to stop streaming stop excuse me upon doing that the users here will update momentarily and you'll see that the live stream goes away and that is it the meeting is still happening however it is not live at this point