The class room: the stage and the controls
The class room is built around one big stage. What you are looking at (your teacher, a shared screen, the slides or the whiteboard) fills the stage, and the camera pictures sit in a corner.
The stage and the pictures
- Drag the small camera pictures to any corner of the screen, or open More and choose Move the video tiles.
- Point at a picture and press Pin to keep it, or Swap to put it on the stage in place of the main view.
- When your teacher shares a screen, it takes the stage. Press Whiteboard or Slides to look at those instead.
- If the other person is not in yet, the stage says who it is waiting for. If a camera is off, you see initials.
The bar at the bottom
Every control has an icon and a name (on a phone or a tablet a short one, such as Mic, Camera, Share, Chat or More, under the icon), and works with a keyboard shortcut: hold Alt + Shift and press the letter. M microphone, V camera, S share screen, D slides, B whiteboard, P pointer, H raise hand, C chat and notes, F full screen, L leave. The bar always stays on one row: on a phone it keeps Mic, Camera, Share (or Raise for a student who cannot share), Chat, More and Leave, and the less used tools are under More; on a tablet the tools that do not fit move there too. In landscape the bar stands at the side.
The arrow beside the microphone and the camera lets you change the device in the middle of the class, and choose the speaker where your browser allows it.
Chat and notes
Chat and notes opens one panel with Chat, Agenda and, for the teacher, Notes and Lesson plan. A number on the button counts new chat messages. The panel never pushes the stage down: on a phone it slides up from the bottom, and you can drag its handle to make it taller.
The pointer
Press Pointer and move over the whiteboard, the slides or a shared screen. The other person sees a small dot that follows you and fades a moment after you stop. The pointer is not saved, and it does not appear in the recording.
If the connection drops
A yellow note says Reconnecting and the controls keep working. If it does not come back, you see Connection lost with a Rejoin button; you can come back until the class ends. If your own connection is weak, a small amber dot shows on your picture, and after a few seconds the class suggests turning off your camera.
Leaving
Leave asks you first. You can rejoin until the class ends. The teacher can also choose End class for everyone: the class closes for both people and the recording stops, and nobody can rejoin it. If it ends before the booked time, it is shorter than booked and goes to the usual review of short lessons.
Updated 2026-11-03