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title: "The Live Button"
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The **LIVE** button is used to add or remove webcam participants from stage.

The **LIVE** button indicates the broadcasting status of a participant on stage. It can be located in the participant's list and has two distinct states.

The red button signifies that participants' webcams and/or microphones are enabled for broadcasting. Everyone in the room can see or hear their audio and video streams unless they are muted. On the other hand, when the **LIVE** button is white, it denotes that participants cannot broadcast their audio and video streams into the room. In this state, no one in the room can see or hear them.

![image](media://cf391c05-ae53-48af-ac87-809cb21684a5)

## Participant Is LIVE

- In the LIVE state, the participant's webcam and/or microphone are actively broadcasting to the room, allowing everyone to see and/or hear them.
- Clicking the LIVE button while in this state will "un-LIVE" the participant.
- When the LIVE button is illuminated in red, clicking on it will remove the participant from the stage, thereby terminating their broadcasting capabilities.

## Participant Is Not LIVE

In this state, participants are not broadcasting to the room. This can be for few reasons:

- **Large room mode: **The room operates in Large room mode, which means that participants are not automatically placed on the stage upon entering the session.
- **Instructor or moderator removal: **If an instructor or a moderator clicked the LIVE button while it was illuminated red, the participant is removed from the stage.
- **Stage full: **If the stage has reached its maximum capacity based on the configured limit for the number of participants, adding a participant as **LIVE** will automatically remove the longest-muted participant from the stage.

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