> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dfine.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Join a live session

> Open the meeting link, enter your name, set up camera and microphone and join the live session.

A live session opens from a link that contains `/meet/`. You need no account, only a current browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on a computer as well as on iPad and iPhone.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the link">
    Click the link in your invitation. If the access has a password, enter it under **Enter meeting password** and click **Unlock**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter your name">
    Under **Your Name**, type the name the others should see, up to 25 characters.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up camera and microphone">
    Camera and microphone start off. Click **Activate Video** and **Activate Audio**. Your browser then asks whether the page may use your camera and microphone. Allow it. You then see yourself in the preview, and the arrow next to each icon picks another device.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dfineiogmbh/c4BWdwqGreHpa8Hh/images/viewers/review-prejoin.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=c4BWdwqGreHpa8Hh&q=85&s=652efcfe6f61d2fb31b1a147568dbf73" alt="The screen before joining with the name field, the camera preview and the Join Meeting button" width="2400" height="1500" data-path="images/viewers/review-prejoin.jpg" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Join">
    Click **Join Meeting**. You are now in the room and see the other participants.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>
  Watching on a second computer, for example in the grading suite? Turn on **Viewing Mode** before you join. This device then plays no sound from the room and shows no camera pictures, only the stream and the file. Your own camera and microphone stay off.
</Tip>

## When you only watch

Some rooms are pure live streams. Before joining you then see no camera or microphone switches, only your name field and **Join Meeting**. If the host has not started yet, the room shows **Waiting for Stream**. The picture appears by itself as soon as it starts.

## Leave the session

Click the gear at the top (**Meeting settings**), choose **Leave Meeting** and confirm with **Leave**. Your browser's back button asks first as well. **Rejoin Meeting** takes you back in with one click.

## If it does not work

| Message | Meaning |
| - | - |
| **Link Expired** | The access has expired. Ask the person who invited you for a new link. |
| **Not Yet Active** | The access only starts at a later time. |
| **Access Deactivated** | The host has switched the access off. |
| **Room Locked** | The room is locked until the host opens it. |
| **Region Restricted** | The room can only be reached from certain countries. |
| **Meeting is full** | The room has reached its participant limit. |
| **Opened elsewhere** | You opened the same session in another tab. |

If the preview shows **No access to your camera** or **No access to your microphone**, you declined access in the browser. Allow it in your browser's site settings and reload the page. **Another app is using your camera** means another program, such as Zoom or Teams, holds the camera.

<Card title="Camera and microphone in the room" icon="mic" href="/en/review/viewers/camera-and-microphone">
  Mute, turn the camera on and off, switch devices.
</Card>


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