# The lesson room

> Join an online lesson in your browser and use the camera, chat, whiteboard and materials.

Many teachers hold their lessons in Aula's own room. You do not install anything: you open a page in your browser.

## Join [#join]

On the lesson page, **Join now** opens the room from 15 minutes before the start until 30 minutes after the end. If your teacher uses their own meeting link instead, the button opens that link. An in person lesson has no room.

If the room is not available, the page tells you to use the meeting link on the lesson page.

## Check your camera and microphone [#check-your-camera-and-microphone]

Before you enter, the room shows your camera and asks the browser for permission. Choose your camera, microphone and speaker, and watch the microphone level move when you speak. If the browser blocked them, allow the camera and microphone in the address bar, or join without them.

For a music lesson the check also asks you to confirm that you wear headphones, and lets you record and play back 4 seconds of your sound. Music mode on an iPhone or iPad can sound worse, and screen sharing is unavailable there, so use a laptop. With two cameras you need about 2 to 3 Mbit/s of upload.

## In the room [#in-the-room]

- **Microphone**, **camera** and **Leave the room** are in the call controls at the bottom.
- If your teacher has not arrived, the room says you are waiting for them. A group lesson waits for the other students.
- **Share your screen** works on desktop browsers only.
- **Chat** keeps your messages with the lesson. A badge shows unread ones.
- **Whiteboard**: your teacher opens it and you get a notice with **Open it**. You can both draw, and it saves as you go.
- The **lesson panel** lists the materials your teacher added to this lesson, and has a tuner for instrument lessons. Open a file in a new tab from the list.
- **Data saver** in the settings gives you lower quality video when your connection is slow. Shared screens stay sharp.

## On a phone [#on-a-phone]

A phone works for a lesson. **Switch camera** flips between the front and back camera, for example to show your instrument or your notebook.

## If something goes wrong [#if-something-goes-wrong]

- A weak connection shows a banner. Turn your camera off or use data saver.
- If the browser paused the sound, select the banner to hear your teacher.
- After a dropped connection the room reconnects by itself. **Join again** brings you back if you left.
- **Report a problem** in the room tells your school what went wrong, for example with audio or video.

Lessons are not recorded.