How do I add a live virtual meeting, classroom, or webinar to my LifterLMS course or membership?
When you own your own learning platform and host it yourself, it’s better to use a third-party virtual meeting tool to host the actual live virtual meeting.
In the next section, we discuss how to seamlessly integrate the live virtual meeting into your LifterLMS courses and/or lessons. But first, it’s important to choose your live virtual meeting third-party tool.
A popular recommendation for hosting live virtual class meetings and webinars is Zoom.
Go to Meeting and Go to Webinar are also popular choices.
Some people choose to use Google Hangouts, YouTube Live, or Facebook Live as well.
Google Hangouts and YouTube Lives can be embedded on your website. Everything else mentioned here is in a separate app or website that would need to open for the live virtual meeting to happen.
There are many ways to integrate your live virtual classroom into your LifterLMS course or membership. The main concern here is to provide meeting access to only enrolled students in a specific course or membership.
If you are using Zoom for example, you have meeting access invite options that look like this:
Chris Badgett is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: My Live Class
Time: Dec 12, 2018 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/968919958
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16465565656,,968918958# or +16696006833,,968918958#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location)：
US: +1 646 568 8656 or +1 669 960 6833
Meeting ID: 968 918 968
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=pDNJpGTmeuJz6JSuw5bkjz9H-uXrauWk
With the above Zoom example, you can copy and paste the meeting invite text to any location where only enrolled students or members can view the invite text.
Here are some options of where you could put the virtual meeting access details or live-streaming embed:
- A lesson
- The enrolled view of a course description
- A members only page
- In a LifterLMS Private Area
- In a protected forum
Via an email engagement sent by LifterLMS from your website or through your LifterLMS integrated email marketing service
You can easily integrate your courses with Zoom by following simple steps. To help you get started, we’ve created a dedicated blog post where you can see all the steps to connect your courses and lessons with Zoom. The integration works seamlessly with any LifterLMS bundle and is also available in the free version. This Zoom integration blog post tutorial is one option for educators aiming to deliver live, interactive learning experiences within the LMS website.
JitsiMeet by WPPOOL also offers an integration with LifterLMS, enabling seamless live video conferencing on your LifterLMS platform. It’s a free plugin available for download from WordPress.org or directly from your WordPress dashboard. Once installed, you can embed your meeting link into your lessons using a dedicated block.
To learn all the steps for embedding JitsiMeet, check out our tutorial.
