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EzyCourse Native Live Meeting [BETA]
What is it & why you need it
EzyCourse Native Live is your built-in meeting solution — fully integrated inside your platform, with no third-party setup required.
With this native feature, you can now host live sessions directly within your Appointments, Events, and Courses. If live interaction is part of your business — coaching, teaching, consulting, workshops, webinars — this feature is the perfect solution fully integrated within the platform. Simple setup. Full control. Fully native.
[Note: This is a BETA stage release. Therefore, you might face unwanted difficulties while using the Native Live feature. We expect you to kindly report any issues you face directly to our support team so that we can give you the best possible experience when we go live.]
How it works
EzyCourse Native Meetings are simple to set up and use. If you already had Zoom license, you’ll get 300 attendees without any extra cost. For users without Zoom license, you have to get the Native Meetings addon to get your 300 attendees. In case your license is not activated automatically, please contact support.
Addon price:
• $19/m Monthly
• $15/m Yearly
As for Webinar, we are actively working on it and it will be released within our next few updates.
Once you have the feature, you can use native meetings across Appointments, Events, and Courses. For Appointments, you can take either one-to-one or group meetings. Otherwise, it is usually group meetings so that a group of users can join.
You can host meetings simultaneously depending on the number of host licenses you have. In other words, you can create and also start multiple meetings at the same time. More about this later on.
With this native feature, you can select from 50 different servers, easily share or invite meeting link, and even add authentication security measures. Inside the meeting room, you get a setup similar to Zoom giving you access to features such as live chat, participant list, screen share, record option, Q&A section, and more.
Meeting Setup & Features
The setup process is very similar whether you’re creating a meeting for an appointment, event, or live lesson in courses. When creating the new product, simply select the Native Live/Native Meeting option from the dropdown. Live lessons are inside your course curriculum, accessible from Courses → All Courses. Appointments and Events are under the Products & Services menu on your dashboard.
When you select Native Live or Meeting, you’ll see the button to configure the meeting settings. Click it.
Meeting Configurations
The configurations you see vary slightly depending on the product type (live lesson, appointment, event). But, it’s mostly the same for all.
During setup, you can select a time zone of your choosing. Notice that the available hosts are displayed at the top. This shows whether any meeting is currently running or not.
For live lessons and events, you can set the date-time/Start Time for the meeting to be held and the duration of the meeting. As for appointments, you can do it directly from the appointment creation page with slots and a separate duration field. Meeting duration is dependent on your plan: Elite users can set up to 180 minutes and all other users can set up to 120 minutes.
[Note: You cannot schedule the start time any earlier than 5 minutes. This is so that the meeting can properly sync and deliver a smoother experience.]
The next highlight feature is the Secured Meeting option. This keeps your sessions secure and prevents logged-out or unauthenticated users from joining your meetings. However, if you share the meeting invite link, users can still join directly through the link without logging in.
Another great feature is you can select the server for your meeting. By default, the system selects the nearest server based on your location. Currently, we have over 50 servers, with more being added in future updates.
There’s also a Use Nearest button to select your nearest server automatically.
Once you create the live lesson, appointment, or an event with the native meeting; they’ll automatically be available for you on the Meetings menu on your dashboard.
Managing Your Meetings
All native live meetings are managed from Products & Services -> Meetings -> Native Meetings. They appear here automatically as you create new live lessons or events. Appointment native meetings only appear when a booking is made by a customer.
[Note: For 1:1 appointment types, a separate meeting is created for each booking. In case of group appointments, there’s one meeting for a single slot and it’s created when the first booking is made for that particular slot.]
You can join as the host of the meeting. To do that, simply click the Join button. You can join a meeting 20 minutes before the start time. If a meeting is canceled or completed then you cannot join that particular meeting.
Sometimes, it may take 2-3 minutes longer for the meeting to get ready. If the meeting is not yet ready then you’ll see a page after clicking the join button.
Participants will also see a similar page with countdown to the meeting start.
For sharing your live session, you can easily generate and copy a link. Click the three dots on a meeting and select the Generate Invite Link. This link remains active for 4 hours i.e. anyone can join the meeting with the link within 4 hours from link generation.
[Note: Generating the invite link will become possible 20 minutes before the start time. This can also vary slightly and take extra 2-3 minutes before you can generate, depending on the meeting being ready.]
Meeting Features
Inside the meeting, you can access and find a similar set of features as on Zoom. Here’s what the EzyCourse Native Live feature offers:
• Screen share
• Live chat
• Record sessions
• Q/A section
• Participant list
[Note: Recordings will be directly accessible from your dashboard gallery, after a meeting ends.]
As the admin, you can also control some advanced participant settings such as muting someone, kicking someone out, disable screen sharing, etc.
You can also select and show a question on the stage so everyone can see, ultimately making the meeting even more interactive for you and your users.
How to Create Group Meeting in Appointments
For live lessons and events, the meeting will always be a group meeting. As for appointments, you can set up both one-to-one and group meetings.
First, head over to Products & Services -> Appointments -> and click the Create Appointment Event button.
Choose the Native Live and configure your meeting settings as necessary.
As of now, your appointment is automatically a one-to-one type. To make it a group meeting, scroll down and turn on the “Allow multiple bookings at the same slot” option. You can give the maximum number of bookings allowed for a single slot.
Appointments with “multiple bookings for the same slot” will work as group meetings, and only one meeting will be created for a single slot no matter how many bookings are made. In other words, each slot in the appointment gets a separate meeting.