# The live on the student’s side: from reminder to replay > Today every live runs on a Google Meet or Zoom link, because the Dirassa+ room is coming “Soon”: the student finds their lives under “Live” in your academy’s portal, reads “This live is on Google Meet” and “The class opens in the Google Meet app. On a phone, install it before the start.” on the live’s page, then presses “Join via Google Meet” when the link opens a quarter of an hour before, which counts them as present; the link stays open to them until half an hour after the planned end. Sound, video and chat happen in the meeting, with no replay from us. What follows describes what the room will add once it opens, not what works today: a waiting room where the student writes a question and sees how much data the live will use, then the live with a short delay, in the quality they choose, a button to raise a hand, notes saved to their notebook, then the chaptered replay. We follow Amina in Ouargla, Khadidja in Béchar on weak 4G and Sara who comes up on stage, in Salim Bouzid’s review. A photography trainee or a marketing workshop attendee sees the same. - Time: About 6 minutes to read - Who can do it: Every student allowed into the live: a course student, a registrant, a ticket buyer or an invitee. - Updated: 2026-11-02 - URL: https://www.dirassaplus.com/en/guide/student-live ## In short 1. “Live” in the portal: what’s on air, then “Coming” and “Missed”, the reminder bell and adding lives to a calendar. 2. The waiting room: countdown, a question before the start, the live’s size in MB, and a camera and mic test. 3. Watching: “Normal”, “Saver” or “Audio only” (540, 200 and 14 MB an hour), stepping down on its own on a weak network. 4. “Raise hand”: the teacher invites, checks the voice away from everyone, then the student is on air. 5. Polls, questions, reactions, and what the teacher pins. 6. “Notes” and “Mark the moment”: kept with their minute in the notebook. 7. After the live: “Watch the replay” with chapters, speed and quality, and picking up where they left off. ## Before you start - Students sign in from your academy’s portal or app; a visitor who registered on the site uses the live’s link on the device they registered with. - No camera or mic needed to watch; only to go on stage. - On a Meet or Zoom link: on a phone, the Google Meet or Zoom app installed before the start; on a computer, a browser that opens the meeting. The meeting address only reaches them a quarter of an hour before the start. ## The steps ### 1. “Live” in the portal The student portal has a Live page (your coming lives, and the replays of what you missed). What’s on air shows as red cards with Join the live, and the portal header pulses. Then two parts: Coming (this week, next week, later: day and time on the student’s clock, teacher, kind) and Missed (chapters, answered questions, the replay’s saver size, “Watch” or resume at a minute, and “Homework” with due dates at the top). Every coming live has a bell: “Reminder an hour before”, “Reminder the day before only” if it falls at night, or “Reminder off”. Add my lives to my calendar downloads one file with every coming live. A student abroad sees their own time with Algiers time, and between midnight and 7 am on their clock: “Early for you · the replay is included”. On the portal’s home, a live on air, or one whose waiting room is open (a quarter of an hour before by default), becomes the “Now” card at the top, with “Join the live” or “Enter the waiting room”, the page’s only orange button; the course’s lesson moves below it with an outlined button. A live starting within three hours is a row under “Waiting for you” (“Live in 2 h 15 min · 20:00”), and so is “Missed the live?” with “Watch the replay”, for up to three days after a live the student watched less than half of. Inside the course, a “Live class” card in the lesson’s place. On screen: «Live»، «Join the live»، «Coming»، «Missed»، «Homework»، «Reminder an hour before»، «Reminder the day before only»، «Reminder off»، «Add my lives to my calendar»، «Early for you · the replay is included»، «Now»، «Enter the waiting room»، «Waiting for you»، «Missed the live?»، «Watch the replay»، «Live class» Tip: Yacine in Montreal sees the 20:00 Algiers review at 15:00 on his clock, and adds it to his phone calendar in one tap. ### 2. The waiting room: a question, the live’s size, a device check A quarter of an hour before (per your settings), the live’s link becomes the waiting room: “Starts in” with a countdown; after the start time, the teacher is on the way and it starts in a moment. Write your question before the start (the teacher sees it first thing, ranked by classmates’ votes), with “Ask without my name” if you allow it, and a link to classmates’ questions to vote on. Then the data line: ≈ 300 MB on saver, the live’s length and ≈ 21 MB audio only, with “Change”. If the stage is on, Test your camera and mic (to be ready if the teacher invites you) opens “Test your device”: a mirror, a sound level, a chime, and the reassurance that nobody sees or hears you here. At the bottom: watching starts by itself, camera and mic aren’t needed to watch. The room doesn’t connect to the live before it starts, so it uses nothing while waiting. On screen: «Starts in»، «Write your question before the start»، «Ask without my name»، «Change»، «Test your camera and mic»، «Test your device»، «Done, I'm ready» Tip: Amina writes in the waiting room “Why is the speed squared in Ec?”, 14 classmates vote, and Salim starts with her question. ### 3. Watching: quality, data and a weak network This is the Dirassa+ room’s screen once it opens (“Soon”); today the student watches in the Meet or Zoom app. At the top, “Live — under a second of delay”, the network state and “Leave”. In the middle, what the teacher shows (camera, slides, screen, board or a break), and below four buttons: Raise hand, React, the quality, Full screen; on the side “Chat”, “Questions” and “Notes”. Viewing quality (numbers for what’s left): “Normal” (720p), “Saver” (360p, enough to read the board), “Audio only” (with slides as still images), each in MB, and “Used so far”. On saver and audio only, the browser draws the slide from the same PDF, so it stays sharp. Phones start on “Saver”, and the chosen quality is remembered on the device. If the network is weak for 8 seconds, the room steps down a notch by itself (to saver, then sound and slides) without missing any of the teaching; when it recovers, it offers “Back to video”, never forcing it. Students can turn that off: “Switch by itself when the connection weakens”. On screen: «Live — under a second of delay»، «Leave»، «Raise hand»، «React»، «Viewing quality»، «Full screen»، «Chat»، «Questions»، «Notes»، «Normal»، «Saver»، «Audio only»، «Used so far»، «Back to video»، «Switch by itself when the connection weakens» Tip: Khadidja in Béchar on weak 4G: the room switches to “Audio only” by itself; she hears Salim and sees the slide from the file, for about 14 MB an hour instead of 540. ### 4. “Raise hand”: from the queue to the stage Raise hand shows “Your hand is raised” and that the teacher sees their name in the queue, with “Lower it”. When the teacher or moderator invites them, The teacher invites you to speak opens: the teacher and viewers will see and hear them, and they can leave the stage any time; a mirror with their name, a sound level, and three buttons: Go on (camera and mic), Sound only, Not now (the hand comes down). If the teacher checks their voice first, they read that only the teacher and moderators hear them for now. Then on stage: You're on air with how many see and hear them, “Mic”, “Camera” and Leave the stage. If their network weakens on stage, their picture stops so they stay audible. On screen: «Raise hand»، «Your hand is raised»، «Lower it»، «The teacher invites you to speak»، «Go on»، «Sound only»، «Not now»، «Checking your sound»، «You're on air»، «Leave the stage» Tip: Sara goes up with “Sound only” to ask about the cart example, then comes down in a tap; no need to open her camera. ### 5. Polls, questions, and what the teacher pins When the teacher launches a question, a card appears (“A question from the teacher”, or “Quick question” for a quiz): pick, then Vote; they read which answer they chose and that the result shows when the teacher reveals it. Once shown: the result in percentages, “Correct” on the right answer, “Your choice” on theirs. In Questions: “Ask the teacher…” and “Send question”, “Ask without my name” if allowed, and a vote on each question; answered ones are marked. Pinned items show under the picture: a link with “Open”, a file with “Download”, a store product with “Buy” (which opens its page in the academy store). React opens six reactions that float up the edge of the picture. On screen: «Quick question»، «Vote»، «Ask the teacher…»، «Send question»، «Ask without my name»، «Download»، «Buy»، «React» ### 6. “Notes” and “Mark the moment”, in the notebook In Notes (notes for them alone: an idea, or a moment marked in a tap), the field keeps the minute they started typing, then Save note; Mark the moment keeps the moment with no text and invites them to write more in their notebook later. Notes are for account holders (visitors are asked to sign in). Everything lands in the notebook: one card per live marked “From a live”, each time with “Open the replay at this minute”; notes also show as marks on the replay bar. On screen: «Notes»، «Save note»، «Mark the moment»، «Find them all in “My notebook”»، «From a live»، «Open the replay at this minute» Tip: Amina marks the cart exercise without typing, then comes back to it in her notebook the night before the exam: the replay opens straight at 37:32. ### 7. After the live: the chaptered replay At the end, attendees read the end time, then that the recording is ready (with the chat and questions) or being prepared, with Watch the replay or resume at a minute, and “What you missed” in chapters. They get the replay-ready notice if they asked for it. In the replay: a chaptered bar, “Speed” (1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 0.75), Replay quality (numbers for the whole class), and a “You stopped here” card with Pick up where you left off or “From the start”. On the side: Chapters (“You are here”), Chat (“Messages appear with the video, as they happened”, with answered questions jumping to their answer), My notes with a “Note” button. If the replay window has passed: “This replay's viewing period has ended”. Replay minutes are counted apart from live attendance. On screen: «The live has ended»، «Watch the replay»، «What you missed»، «Speed»، «Replay quality»، «Pick up where you left off»، «From the start»، «Chapters»، «Messages appear with the video, as they happened»، «My notes»، «Note»، «This replay's viewing period has ended» Tip: Imane missed the live in a power cut: she watches the replay at 1.5, jumps to the quiz from the chapters, and “Audience” counts her replay minutes. Heads-up: If the live is full when they try to join, they read “The live is full right now” and get the recording when it’s ready; if the live runs on Meet or Zoom, they see “Join via Google Meet” instead of the room, with no replay from us. ## On the teacher’s side - On air: What the teacher does when a student raises a hand or asks: the “On air” lesson. - Recording and replay: The chapters and availability students see: the “Recording and replay” lesson. - Public lives: What visitors see before registering or buying: the “Public lives and tickets” lesson. ## Questions **How much internet does a live use?** About 540 MB an hour on “Normal”, 200 MB on “Saver”, 14 MB on “Audio only”. The waiting room shows the whole live’s size, and “Viewing quality” shows what’s used and what’s left. **Does a student need a camera or mic?** Not to watch. Only to go on stage, and they can go up with “Sound only”. **What if the student’s connection drops?** Quality steps down by itself on a weak network and the room reconnects; if the live ends while they’re out, they read at which minute they dropped and pick up from the replay. **Where do students find their notes?** In their notebook: one card per live, each minute opening the replay there. Notes are for account holders. **Can students always watch the replay?** Depending on your choice: always, 7 or 30 days, or students only. After that, they read that the viewing period has ended. **Can students watch on a phone?** Yes, from the browser or your academy’s app, with buttons within thumb’s reach, starting on “Saver”.