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Understanding Live Control Room

As organizations ramp up their streaming infrastructure to enable broadcasting to large audiences, VIDIZMO eases the workflow by forming a seamless connection between your camera, encoders and streaming servers. By introducing an automated mechanism to pull your stream from a source, or push it via an encoder to your live audience, it enables customer organizations to worry less about the setup of the session and more about the getup during it.

For more details, see Understanding Live Streaming in VIDIZMO.

Concept​

VIDIZMO allows you to broadcast a live session in a 2-step process:

With the Live Control Room, you can centrally control all aspects of your live stream experience directly via your own administrative space. The following sections describe the features within the Control Room.

Session Control​

The Live Control Room provides you with tools to manage your live webcast. Some of the basic controls include:

  • The option to start your session once you are done setting up your camera, encoder, staging presets, etc.
  • The ability to pause an ongoing live session for breaks during events or due to any occurrence of an unexpected situation.
  • Option to record chunks of live stream that you wish to publish as a live session, which you can later concatenate into one. See Recording during live session.
  • Using the overflow menu of the Live Control Room, you can directly change a live session's media settings.
  • You can also share the live session, sending a quick invite to all those who matter.

Session Interaction​

VIDIZMO employs a studio-based architecture that allows you to interact with your live audience via Quizzes, Surveys, various sorts of attachments and documents, and much more.

  • A library-like space is available to bring all your interactive media into the control room before you go live. You can populate it with all the relevant interactive Quizzes, Surveys and documents/handouts that you might want to share with your live audience during the broadcast.
  • As soon as you start a session, you have the option to publish any of these interactive media during your ongoing session.
  • In case of Quizzes and Surveys, you can only publish one at a time. As soon as you mark them as Complete, you will be able to publish others.
  • Handouts, which are basically documents, videos, executable files and other important attachments that help the audience gain more information about the said topic, can be published anytime during the live session regardless of whether a quiz or survey is live. See Understanding Handouts.
  • When designing your quiz, the time limit you set for candidates to be able to complete a quiz or one page within a quiz, will be honored during your live stream as well. See Understanding Quiz.
  • There are no such time limits when it comes to surveys. As soon as you notice you have received enough survey submissions for deriving insights, you can mark it as complete. See How to Create a Survey.
  • You can also publish the same quiz again in case you feel the need to educate your live audience more about the concept before you have them attempt the quiz again. See Session Statistics for how to determine audience understanding.
  • If you mistakenly publish a Quiz or a Survey during the live session, you have the option to unpublish it immediately. Similarly, if there is a handout you only want to be made available for download for a specific period of time during the live session, you can unpublish it at a later time.
  • When you unpublish the interactive media, it is no longer accounted for in the recorded video of your live session.

Session Statistics​

After interaction it is important to analyze content interaction and user engagement with your live broadcast session. VIDIZMO provides the following key insights:

  • Current Live Views denote the number of viewer instances (not necessarily unique) currently engaged in viewing your live stream.
  • Total Unique Viewers indicate the count of unique viewers that have so far engaged in your session (regardless of whether they are still tuned in or not). This count is accumulated.
  • Similarly, Total Views is also a cumulative count showing you an aggregated value of views that your live stream has received over the span of your live session.
  • The graph is a representation of how the count of live viewers are fluctuating over time.

In the tab adjacent to Statistics, you will see reports for the Quizzes and Surveys you published during the live session to better understand how your audience is interacting with them. The live reporting of a Quiz that is currently live is displayed with an indicator against it for quick correspondence.

When you select the title of the Quiz in the Reports section, it takes you to a detailed assessment report that helps you drill-down analysis against every participant or every question separately.

See View Live Quiz Reporting.

The same is applicable for surveys, where you will be able to see the number of responses and a drill-down when analyzed further. See View Live Survey Reporting.

Session Participation​

A whole section is dedicated to audience management allowing you to chat with them, respond to their unanswered queries during the live webinar. See Understanding interactivity options during live session.

In a nutshell:

  • You can select Start Meeting and chat with your audience directly from your Control Room. Make sure you have enabled Chat while scheduling your live session in VIDIZMO portal.
  • Responding to unanswered queries of your live audience is accessible directly from where you are managing your session.
  • You can control who participates in your session by blocking/unblocking particular participants based on their unacceptable demeanor or misconduct.

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