The Powerful Tips to Use The Live Event in Teams (2023)

Today, I am going to show you the ultimate tips for live event in Microsoft Teams.

Before I get started, here are a couple of things you can do:

• We have written a tutorial on how to setup breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams to split your meetings.
• We have also written posts to improve your Microsoft Teams experience for better productivity. Check out the tips and tricks mentioned here.

Let’s jump right in.

What is a live event in teams?

• Microsoft Teams live events is designed to broadcast to up to 10,000 attendees and is a more difficult tool that ideally requires formal training. If you are organizing a meeting with fewer than 200 attendees we recommend you use teams meetings.
• Microsoft Teams Live Events enables you to schedule, produce and broadcast events to large audiences online.
• Microsoft Teams live events are different from Microsoft Teams meetings in that they are predominantly for one-way communication with large groups and can accommodate large numbers of up to 10,000 participants.

Enable live events in teams

Once Teams is enabled, you need to setup live events. To do this,

• Go to “Microsoft Teams admin center.”
• Select “Meetings” and select “Live events policies.”
• Edit the “Global (Org-wide default) policy” or create a custom policy.
• Within the policy, you should have Allow scheduling enabled and depending on your needs, the specific audience that can join scheduled live events should be configured.

• Next, make sure the policy is assigned to users by selecting Users in teams admin center and checking what Assigned policies users have.

How do I create a live event in teams?

Live event in teams is an extension of teams meetings, that enable you to schedule, produce and broadcast events to large audiences online. If you are the organizer of a live event, you can schedule it in teams in a similar way to how you schedule a regular teams meeting. This process will add the live event to you and your production group’s calendars. After that, you will need to invite the attendees.

• In Teams, select Calendar and then New meeting.
• At the top of the scheduler, select New meeting > New live event.

• Add the meeting title, date and time information, and other details.

• In the Invite people to your event group box, add the names of your event group – the people who will be presenting and producing the event.
• The event group can consist of anyone inside or outside your organization. Just don’t invite attendees at this point – you will get a link to share with them later.
• Select Next.
• Under Live event permissions, choose who can attend your live event:

• Make selections under, How do you plan to produce your event?

If you are producing in teams:

If you are using an external app or device, the option is grayed out.

• Select Schedule to add the event to your and your event group’s calendars.

How do I invite attendees?

• In teams, select Calendar on the left side of the app.
• Select the live event.
• For events that will be produced in teams, select “Get attendees link” to copy the live event link so you can share it with attendees.
  • Open your Outlook calendar and paste the link into a new invite.
  • Don’t invite attendees via a teams meeting. A new teams meeting will have its own meeting link.

How do I produce your live event in teams?

• Select Calendar, then the live event, and Join.
  • Queue on the left-hand side: This is your preview.
  • Live event (on the right-hand side): This is what your attendees can see.
  • You (bottom middle): This is where you can turn on of off your audio and video.
  • Share (bottom right): This is where you can share content.
  • Mute All (bottom right): This is where you can mute everyone.
    
• To share the desktop:
  • Select Share > Desktop > Content > Send live.
  • If the event hasn’t already started, select Start.
    
• To share a window:
  • Select Share and select one of the open windows from the Windows section in the source tray.
  • Once the window is shared, switch over to the producer UI.
  • Select Content and then Send live.
  • If the event hasn’t already started, select Start.
  • Note: Do not minimize the selected window, as this would prevent a preview from showing in the queue.
    
• To share your video:
  • Turn on your camera.
  • Select your camera feed at the bottom of the screen to preview it in your queue (on the left) before sending it to the live event (on the right).
  • Select Send live to send the feed from the preview to the live event.
  • Select Start to start broadcasting live to your attendees!
    
• To end the event, select End -> Leave.

Teams live event producer vs presenter

Live events generally have several people working behind the scenes in a production group.

The Production Group

The production groups consist of an organizer, producer and presenters.

The Organizer

The organizer schedules a live event in teams and ensures the event is set up with the right permissions for attendees and the production group, which will manage the event. Organizers are responsible for:

• Creating a live event.
• Setting attendee permissions.
• Selecting a production method.
• Configuring event options (for example, the moderated Q&A).
• Inviting attendees.
• Selecting production group members.
• Managing reports generated after the event is over.

Note: The organizer role is flexible and the organizer can also nominate themselves as a producer or presenter.

The Producer

A producer makes sure attendees have a great viewing experience by controlling the live event stream. Producers are responsible for:

• Starting and stopping the live event.
• Sharing own video.
• Sharing participant videos.
• Sharing desktop or window (e.g., PPT slides).
• Selecting layouts.

The Presenter

Presenters can be responsible for:

• Presenting audio and video.
• Moderating the Q&A.

Note: Presenters can only share audio, video or a screen (desktop or window) in the live event in teams.

To learn the differences between a producer and a presenter, click here.

Teams live event recording

• In teams, select Calendar on the left side of the app.
• Select the live event.
• Under Live Event Resources, you will have the option to download the
  • Video recording.
  • Attendees engagement report.
  • Q&A report, etc.
• All are downloaded into the downloads folder on your computer.

Attend a live event in teams

• Open the live event link, to join the event.
  • If you open the event in teams, you will join the event in teams.
    • Note: Live events don’t use your Microsoft Teams device preferences yet. Use your operating system’s sound settings to choose your speaker for the live event.
  • If you open the event from Outlook, you can join from the web or open the event in teams.
• If the live event hasn’t started, you will see the message “The live event has not yet started.”
• Browser
  • If you are attending the live event on the web, use a media-source extension (MSE) enabled web browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Safari is not currently supported.
• Video Resolution
  • If the live event in teams begins in low resolution, you might need to manually reset it to a higher resolution.

• Watch the live event later.
  • Once the live event is over, you can still watch the recording using the same link, if the organizer chooses to make the recording available.

Teams live event q&a

When a live event is created with a Q&A option, the Q&A is open by default and attendees can start asking questions even if the event hasn’t started. These questions are only visible to moderators until they publish them for the event.

Open or close the Q&A

• To display or hide the Q&A panel, click the Q&A button on the top right side of the screen.
• Once the Q&A panel is open, you can toggle the Open/Close switch turn the Q&A function off and on.

Answer Questions

Questions from attendees will appear in the Q&A panel; by default, they are private and not seen by other participants.

• Select a question you want to answer by clicking on it and typing in your answer. Questions are private by default.
• Click the Publish button to answer publicly.
• Click the Send button to answer privately.

Make announcements

To make announcements through the Q&A function, follow the steps below:

• Click the Make an Announcement button at the bottom of the Q&A panel.
• Type in your announcement and click the Send button.
• Click the Send button.

Export reports

You can export the transcript, attendee list and Q&A report from a live event using the following steps.

• Launch the “Teams Admin Center.”
• Select “Analytics & Reports.”
• Select “Usage Reports.”
• Report = Teams live event usage.
• Date Range =  7 days.
• Click “Run report.”
• Select the live event.
• Click on the links to download the report.
  • Transcript
  • Attendee
  • Q&A report

Congratulations! Now you know the use of live event in teams. If you have any questions, let me know.

I’d like to hear from you:

Which finding from today’s report did you find most interesting? Or maybe you have a question about something that I covered.

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