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Quick links
Log in to the WorkCast Interactive Studio
Log in to the WorkCast Interactive Studio
Log in to your WorkCast Creator account, go to the Your Events tab and use the search bar to find your event by title or date range. Then open the studio in one of two ways:
- Click Launch next to the event in your events list, or
- Open the event, go to Session Setup & Studio Access and click Launch Studio.
The WorkCast Interactive Studio will then open in a new browser window.
When you first enter, the studio looks like this:
The Pod options menu is on the left of your screen. The Presenter Only Chat, My Connections and Cloud Slides pods are open by default.
Note: All pods can be resized. Click and drag the bottom-right corner of a pod to the size that suits you.
Note: All pods can be resized. Click and drag the bottom-right corner of a pod to the size that suits you
Interactive Studio Pods
To find out which pods are available and how to use them, click here
Producing your Live event
The studio looks the same for every user, with one difference: only Producer users see the Start Broadcast button in the top right, so they control when the event goes live. Producer users also automatically have moderator rights. To give moderator rights to a presenter, click here.
How to start / stop the broadcast
The broadcast button is greyed out until you join the My Connections pod.
All users will see a pop-up reminder 1 minute before the scheduled broadcast time.
When you go live, everyone in the studio hears a voiceover say "live streaming is on". When you stop, they hear "live streaming has stopped".
Always click Stop Broadcast in the top right of the studio. Leaving the My Connections pod does not stop the broadcast, and it will keep playing in your auditorium until you do.
Change the auditorium view - Follow me
What you see is what the audience sees. The layout in your My Connections pod is the layout the audience sees in the auditorium once you broadcast. By default, it changes automatically:
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When... |
The layout is... |
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1β2 users are connected |
Stage view |
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3 or more users are connected |
Tile view |
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Cloud Slides, Cloud Video or a screen is being shared |
Stage view |
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Sharing stops (3 or more users connected) |
Tile view |
Follow me lets a moderator take control of the layout instead. When it is on, your presenters and audience see exactly what you see in your My Connections pod.
Please note: only one moderator can turn on Follow me at a time.
To turn on Follow me:
1. Click the Settings (cog) icon in the My Connections control bar.
2. Select Moderator from the side menu, tick Everyone follows me and click OK.
Follow me is now on. Everything you see in your My Connections layout is mirrored for all presenters and attendees.
Once Follow me is on, you control the attendee view. To change the layout, click the Change mode button.
You can choose from three layouts:
Hide thumbnails - To hide or show the webcam thumbnails, click the arrow on the middle right of My Connections. This hides them for you, your presenters and your audience.
If Everyone follows me is on and you share Cloud Slides, Cloud Video or your screen while in Tile view, the webcams are hidden from everyone. To show the webcams alongside the shared content, switch to Stage view.
Moderator controls
Producers are moderators automatically. You can moderate in two ways:
- From the participants list - click the Participants button, then use the button next to a name or the three dots.
- NEW From a webcam - hover over any webcam and click the three dots in the top right corner. This works in every layout.
Both give you the same controls.
Tip: In the participants list, the button next to each name changes depending on what the presenter is doing (Mute, Stop video, Stop screen sharing or Ask to unmute), so the action you're most likely to need is always one click away.
Mute
Turn off webcams
**NEW** Stop screen-sharing
Ask to unmute
Click Ask to unmute next to their name, or find it in the three dots. They hear a chime and see a prompt to unmute.
Kick out
Click the three dots, then Kick out. They can rejoin from the My Connections lobby.
Grant moderator rights
Click the three dots, then Grant Moderator Rights. They get all moderator controls, including Follow me, and you keep yours.
**NEW **Check connection
The connection graph shows to the right of each name in the participants list. Your audience canβt see it.