Twitch Lectures for Students
Twitch Lectures for Students
In light of recent COVID-19, colleges have had to move lectures to online only. We have had to deal with problematic systems like zoom, both teachers and students dislike the quality and lack of security. I request that there be feature that allows verified students in a stream with verified teachers.
This would essentially act be a similar feature to sub-only streams, only difference is that this would have to be a free feature where students are the only people who can access that teachers stream, granted they are in that class. This would likely require schools to share information with twitch as to which emails are verified student accounts.
We have discussed using other services such as discord, but we noticed that the quality and continuity of class discussions erode. It's the same reason why twitch streamers don't want 100+ people backseat gaming with mics on.
For twitch to implement a system like this would greatly aid in live lectures, as the picture quality is the best we've seen, and the ease of access would be best for students and teachers.
krispymexican
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Avralynia
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Due to CoVid-19, it would be nice if Twitch had features or another entity devoted to teaching. (twitch.teacher.com?) Teachers can create a profile with multiple channels for the types of classes that they teach (different sciences and math for example). With each channel/class, the teacher can send a registration to a student's email to create an account or link the class/channel to an existing account. Teachers can host classes privately to their students for chatting purposes, students will receive notifications when their private class has gone live, and after the live event is done the video can be publicly available for viewing. This way students with other teachers can search the public platform for specific topics or follow a teacher. (Similar to following your favorite math help channels on YouTube.) If a student likes a Twitch teacher, they could send a request to that teacher to attend the live sessions, but give the teacher permission to kick the non-native class student should they end up being a disruptive troll.