Lesson room
Teach online in your browser with video, chat, a whiteboard, materials and notes.
The lesson room is Aula's own video room. Nobody installs anything: you and your students open a page in the browser.
Choose how students join
In Profile, How students join your lessons offers two choices:
- Aula's lesson room: video, chat and screen sharing in the browser.
- My meeting link: students open the link from your profile instead. If you have no link set, the lesson room is used.
A meeting link set on one lesson wins over both. An in person lesson has no room. If your school has not switched the room on, students get the meeting link.
Open the room
Open the lesson and select Join lesson, then Join the room once your devices are ready. The room opens 15 minutes before the start and closes 30 minutes after the end, and only for a confirmed or completed lesson. Only the lesson's teacher and student can enter; an owner or admin who is not the lesson's teacher cannot.
An online class meeting uses one room for you and every student booked in. Open it from the register on Today.
Check your devices
Before you enter, the room shows your camera and asks for the browser's permission. Pick the camera, microphone and speaker, watch the microphone level, and join. If the browser blocks the camera, allow it in the address bar, or join without it.
For a music lesson the check adds a headphone confirmation that you must tick, a 4 second test that records and plays back your sound with echo cancellation and noise suppression off, and a note about upload speed. On an iPhone or iPad the room warns that sound can be worse and that screen sharing is unavailable. Use a laptop for music.
In the room
- Microphone, camera and Leave the room are in the call controls. A student alone in the room sees that you have not joined yet.
- Share your screen works in desktop browsers. A shared screen stays sharp even when a student uses data saver.
- Chat keeps links and words with the lesson. Unread messages show a badge.
- Whiteboard opens for both of you, and your student is told when you open it. Bring back the last board copies the last earlier board of the same pair onto this lesson. A board saves while you draw; if a save fails, your drawing stays on screen and saves with your next change.
- Lesson panel holds the materials of this lesson, an upload button for you, your lesson notes and a tuner. Files you add show up for the student at once.
- Data saver in the settings lowers the quality of the video you receive.
Talk time
The lesson panel shows how long you spoke against how long the student, or all students together in a group, spoke. It is counted in your browser while you are in the room, never saved or sent, and students do not see it.
Notes
The lesson panel holds the same lesson notes form as the lesson page, so you can write while you teach and share when you are done. Lessons are not recorded and no transcript is kept.
Tuner
Open the tuner in the lesson panel shows the note your microphone hears and how many cents it is off. Set the reference pitch (A4) and the instrument's key. Nothing leaves your browser.
Report a problem
Report a problem in the room sends a short report to your school's owners and admins with the kind of problem and your details. They see it under Messages, in Reports.
If something goes wrong
- A weak connection shows a banner. Turning the camera off or using data saver helps.
- If the browser paused the sound, select the banner to hear the lesson again.
- After a dropped connection the room reconnects by itself. Join again brings you back if you left.