Live Streaming Coming Soon to Heights Platform

Hey everyone,

Some exciting news: live streaming is coming soon to Heights Platform! 🎥

This powerful update will make it effortless to engage your students, run live lessons, and bring your community together in one place, without juggling additional tools.

Soon, you’ll be able to start live calls from different places within your account:

• Live Lessons: Turn a course lesson into a live stream, and access the recording as a lesson video once the streaming is over.
• Meeting Rooms: Start and schedule live calls or streaming sessions directly from your community channels.
• Digital Products: Offer paid or free access to a live event or group meeting room using digital products, and share the registration page with users inside or outside your program to hold webinars, coaching sessions, and more.

We’d love to hear from you about how you plan to use this feature!

Do you plan to host live lessons within your course or challenge, using Heights as your Zoom alternative, sell access to live events to promote your courses, or something else?

💬 Comment below and share your ideas! Your feedback helps us build something you'll truly enjoy.

That truly is exciting!

I can't wait to see this! My first thought, network sessions, our monthly drop-ins and I may need to consult AI for more ideas!

Question; will it work on mobile devices?

The reason I ask is that my large corp clients use Citrix which blocks far too many good things people can access, so they may need to revert to using their personal mobile devices.

wow, this is awesome. I know my ask will be a bit specialized, but I wonder if the audio will have a similar to Zoom way of making sure musical instruments can be heard? Zoom by default suppresses sustained sounds like fans and motors (good for talking) but that also suppresses musical instruments. We can turn off the suppression in Zoom. How about here? I'd love to bring our classes inside the platform!!

I can still bring my tech talk sessions into Heights, but wouldn't it be nice to have everything right inside a course? Will you be hosting the lesson videos afterwards? I don't currently have your video hosting plan?

Question; will it work on mobile devices?

Yes, Catherine this is planned to work on mobile devices as well. There is nothing to install so attendees will be able to access right from their mobile browser.

We can turn off the suppression in Zoom. How about here? I'd love to bring our classes inside the platform!!

Yes, Laurie! While we plan to offer a noise suppression feature, we plan to have it off by default and so audio should come through without any alteration.

There will be multiple ways to use livestreaming and meeting rooms. You can do live lessons, offer webinars or coaching sessions through digital products, or have meeting rooms and livestreams in specific community channels.

With all of these you will be able to record the call. For livestream lessons, after the stream the lesson will turn into a video lesson with the recording of the call as a video.

For other uses, you will have access to the recording file, and will be able to download that and then upload it to a lesson if you want members to be able to view it again later.

My use for live streaming would be primarily for marketing a coaching webinar to engage with potential clients.

Great to hear @kevin-mccarthy. The livestreaming feature will support that, so you'll be able to use it to host a webinar for leads.

@laurie-mccarriar There is a setting in the zoom app to allow for original audio.

@martin thanks, well aware of original audio in Zoom, we use it every day. I was asking about similar functionality here in the new streaming and they answered in the affirmative.