# Go Live with Built-In Streaming

> Stream live classes, coaching sessions, and events right inside Vonza, with chat, screen sharing, and recordings for your audience.

## Go live now, or schedule it

Instant streams, scheduled events and private rooms, all from the same Go Live button.

- **Instant or scheduled**: Click Go Live now, or schedule a date, time, timezone and duration — multi-day events included.
- **Invite and remind**: Add co-hosts and invitees, upload a CSV of email addresses, share the invite link and send a reminder email.
- **Public or private**: Open streams with a friendly URL, or private ones with a passcode and a waiting room you control.

## Run the room from one screen

Everything a host needs during a live class, coaching session or event, without a second tool.

- **Co-hosts**: Add co-hosts who can share, admit and moderate alongside you.
- **Screen sharing**: Share your screen, and approve screen-share requests from participants.
- **Live chat**: Participants send messages while you teach; you answer in the room.
- **Raised hands**: See who has a question and bring them in when you are ready.
- **Waiting room**: Require host admission so people wait for approval before they join.
- **Mute all, listen-only**: Mute all participants in one click, or keep them on listen-only.
- **Interactive or broadcast**: Run a two-way session, or broadcast to a large audience.
- **Recordings & transcripts**: Auto-record each stream and switch on a transcript per stream.

## Every session, recorded and shared

Switch on auto-record and the recording is shared automatically when the stream ends. Enable transcripts, and attach streams to course lessons and community spaces.

- Auto-record, and share the recording automatically
- Transcripts you can switch on per stream
- Streams inside course lessons and communities

## How live streaming works on Vonza

From the Go Live button to a configured stream, in three steps.

1. **Click Go Live**: Start from the Go Live button in your dashboard, or schedule a stream from the Schedule tab.
2. **Enter the basics**: Give the stream a title, choose public or private, set the date, time and duration, and start the stream.
3. **Configure your stream details**: Add co-hosts and invitees, write the reminder email, and pick recording, transcript and waiting-room options.

## Questions about live streaming

### Do I need Zoom or another tool to go live?

No. Streaming runs inside Vonza: you start or schedule a stream from your dashboard and your audience joins from your site, with camera, microphone, screen sharing and chat built in.

### Can I schedule a stream and remind people?

Yes. Set the date, time, timezone and duration (at least 10 minutes), add an end date for a multi-day event, add co-hosts and invitees or upload a CSV of email addresses, and write a reminder email that goes out before the stream.

### Are streams recorded?

They can be. Each stream has options to auto-record, to share the recording automatically when it ends, and to enable a transcript. Recordings can be renamed, shared with recipients or deleted from the recordings list.

### How are streaming minutes counted?

Every Vonza plan includes monthly streaming credits, measured in participant-minutes, and you can buy more at any time. If the limit is reached mid-stream the live stream continues uninterrupted; the system blocks creating a new stream until credits are topped up.

### Can I make a stream private?

Yes. A stream is public or private; a private stream can require a passcode, and you can require host admission so people wait in a waiting room until you let them in. You can also keep participants on listen-only.

## Related pages

- [Community Platform](https://vonza.com/best-community-platform): Bring your members together with posts, events, live sessions, and private spaces.
- [Online Courses](https://vonza.com/free-online-courses-platform): Attach a live stream to a course lecture so students join from the lesson itself.
- [Vonza School](https://vonza.com/school): Seamlessly create, manage and host high-quality live teaching video streams, webinars and trainings.
- [Appointment Scheduling](https://vonza.com/free-online-appointment-scheduling): For one-to-one calls, let people book a time and meet on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.