Go live

You stream from your own computer, with your own streaming software, and we set up the YouTube broadcast for you.

Before the lecture

About a minute after you book, Stream settings appear on the lecture, under Lectures in your dashboard. They hold the server address and the stream key.

Put them into your streaming software, such as OBS Studio. Keep the key secret, and never show it on screen. Anyone with it could stream as you.

Going live

1. Start streaming at your booked time. You can start the stream a few minutes early to check it.
2. At the booked start, once your stream arrives, we start the broadcast and your lecture goes live.
3. At the booked end, we end the broadcast.

If you’re late, you can still start until the booked end. The end time never moves. Your dashboard says so once the start has passed.

If no stream arrives by the booked end, the lecture didn’t take place and scores nothing.

While you teach

• Teach live. Read the YouTube chat, and answer questions as you go.
• Playing a prerecorded video as if it were live isn’t allowed.
• Lectures are for learners aged 13 and over.
• Learners can report a lecture that breaks the rules. We review reports, and we can stop a lecture or exclude it from scoring. Each decision is logged with its reason.

After the lecture

The recording stays on YouTube.

About 2 days after the end, YouTube reports how many minutes people watched your lecture live. That number is its score. It’s updated every 30 minutes, and it’s final 5 days after the end.

Your dashboard’s Scores section shows your score for this week, for this month, and for each of the last 30 days. How scores work has the details.