Conferences Across Courses

[kperez108]

I want to broadcast a Conference on ... Socrates ... I have scheduled an hour for this live chat with students, then it dawned on me I have three course. 

So, for example...

Course (1) 1:pm (20 students)

Course (2) 2:pm (30 students)

Course (3) 3:pm (25 students)

But, I do not want to spend three hours on the same topic.

Can I run a Conference that ALL three courses (all 75 students) could have access to at the same time, even though they are different classes?

I.e....Course (1)(2)(3) 1:pm (all 75 students have access) 

If not, is there a program that exists that will allow me to screencast my screen to everyone at one time?

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @kperez108 , greetings! Unfortunately, this isn't possible in Canvas, but if you have access to Zoom or Google hangouts or some other free online web conferencing tool, you could create the event and then share that will all three of your classes.

Kona

[ldemartino]

With everyone going to online classrooms, it seems to me to be an important feature to allow students more access to an instructor especially for students who did not want to be in an online class in the first place. Most institutions cannot use tools that aren't FERPA compliant. I haven't investigated these conferencing tools but Google especially is known for being open access without security measures in place.