Live class
Also called: live session, online class
A scheduled teaching session held in real time over video, with the teacher able to present, write, question and answer — as opposed to a recording watched later.
The useful distinction from a webinar is participation: a live class expects students to speak, answer and be marked present. That means the tooling matters — a shared whiteboard, polls, a way to raise a hand, and attendance that records itself.
Recording one is standard practice, and mostly serves the students who attended: revision, and the ones who missed a week.
For example
A 90-minute session at 7pm: the teacher shares slides, runs a poll at the 20-minute mark to check who is following, answers three questions on a shared whiteboard, and the recording is available by 9pm for the four students who missed it. The difference from a recording is the poll — it changes what gets taught next.
On Prolaud
Classes run in the browser with a whiteboard, screen share, polls, hand-raising, attendance and cloud recording, without a separate meeting subscription.
Related terms
- Attendance — The record of who was present in a class, for how long. Online, it is derived from join and leave times rather than a register being called.
- Recording retention — How long a platform keeps a class recording before deleting it. It is a storage-cost decision by the platform, and usually a plan limit.
- Cohort-based course — A course taught to a group who start and finish together on a fixed schedule, usually with live sessions, rather than a recording each student works through alone whenever they like.