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title: "Produce a Teams Live Event"
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This article is for faculty and staff who wish to host live events on Teams.

A Teams live event is a lightweight alternative to Stream, which requires external hardware or software encoder. In a Teams live event, users can create events and invite presenters/panelists to participate on their own devices.

## Producer Capabilities

When producing in teams, producers have the following capabilities:

- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Select video feeds from other presenters and send them to the event.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Chat with other producers and presenters.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Start and end the live event.</span>
  - Once you stop the live event, you cannot restart it.
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">View the live attendee count.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Share their screens (desktop or a window) into the event.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Mute all other producers and presenters.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Join the audio from a PSTN phone (dial-in or self dial-out).</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Moderate the Q&A (if configured for the event).</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Have a Yammer conversation (if configured for the event).</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Download recording.</span>
- <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Download attendee report.</span>

## Producing the Live Event

1. <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Select </span>**Calendar**<span style="color: #1e1e1e">, then click the live event and </span>**Join**<span style="color: #1e1e1e">.</span>
  - <span style="color: #1e1e1e">You will have the options to adjust your camera and microphone before joining the event as a producer.</span>
  - <span style="color: #1e1e1e">You also have the option to join as an attendee, if desired.</span>
2. <span style="color: #1e1e1e">From the bottom of the screen, choose the camera or screen to preview it in the queue (on the left) before sending it to the live event.</span>  
:warning: Note: To appear in the bottom panel of the screen, the camera must be turned on or the screen must be shared by a presenter.
3. <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Select </span><span style="color: #1e1e1e">**Send Live**</span><span style="color: #1e1e1e"> to send the feed from preview to the live event.</span>
4. <span style="color: #1e1e1e">Select </span><span style="color: #1e1e1e">**Start **</span><span style="color: #1e1e1e">to begin broadcasting live.</span>  
:warning: Note: If the screen or camera sharing is stopped, everyone will see **Live event will resume in a moment.**
5. <span style="color: #1e1e1e">To end the event, select </span><span style="color: #1e1e1e">**End.**</span>

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