hey guys it's Jack with Kapwing and today i'm going to teach you guys how to make discord stage
channels so discord just released a new feature called stage channels stage channels adopt the
clubhouse model of like live audio communication with speakers and listeners but has made it more
accessible so at this stage clubhouse is invite only so not everyone can get on the app even if
they want to and discord has just made stage channels available to anyone who uses discord
just with a few modifications of your server so pretty much using the stage channel feature
designated speakers are allowed to speak in a room while listeners do not have access to speak unless
they are given permission by the moderator so this is likely a good tool for things like q and a's
or larger events with popular public speakers so if you're ever in a situation where you want
to limit the number of speakers but have a sizable audience that is not limited
stage channels is a great option for you before we begin make sure to subscribe to
the channel and join the queen community discord server by clicking the link in the description
to join an online community of modern creators i'm out of breath that was really long sentence
we also have a video on our channel about creating animated discord server
icons for free using our free online editor kapwing so if you want to take
your discord server to the next level make sure to check out that video after this one
okay hi guys so i'm in discord now and i'm going to show you guys how to make a stage
channel so i am in the kapwing community discord server which you guys can check out by clicking
the link in the description and let's just go ahead and try and make a new stage channel so
i'm just going to click the create channel button and then as you can see here there is the stage
channel button available so i can click that and then just go ahead and continue but if you don't
see that you have the stage channel button there if you only have text channel and voice channel
don't panic i can help you so i'm just going to make a new server just to show you how to fix this
so i'm going to create a new server and then when i try and create a channel you will see that the
stage channel option is not available so click off of here and then you're going to need to go just
to the name of your channel up top and then click the drop down menu and then when you're
there you're going to want to click these server settings okay now you just have to go to the
community tab and then click enable community and then click get started and then it's going to ask
you just to like go through some safety checks and set up your account so i'm just going to do that
i understand and agree and then you should be all set so once you x out of this when you click the
create channel button yep the stage channel button is right there so you can go ahead and do that so
now i'm just going to create a stage channel and i'm just going to call it wing stage and then next
so now it's going to ask you to add your stage moderator moderators are speakers who can add
and remove others from speaking and open the stage channel they don't have to be mods of your server
so you could pretty much invite anyone to be a moderator but obviously it's good to trust the
mods because you know they're going to ultimately control who's allowed to speak and who's not so
you can go through and add any moderators that you want here um i want to be the only moderator
because i'm amazing and then so i'm just going to skip this part and then once it creates you're
just going to click the stage channel and you're able to see which channels are staged channels
because the little icon is like sort of like the little apple podcasts logo and yeah so i see
that so i know that this is the stage so i'm just going to click into this then you're going to type
in whatever you're chatting about so i'm going to say which one of yous is the real dirty dan
and open the stage and then you can see that i am now in the stage and you can see that i am
speaking obviously because of the sort of ripples around my face my icon means that
my audio is on of course you'll want to invite people that's sort of the whole point of the stage
so you can do that by clicking the invite button in the bottom left and then you can invite people
using the link or just through discord invite so i am a moderator which you can see by my little
badge up here and that means that i'm allowed to move myself and others in and out of the speaker
position so i'm gonna do that by clicking this button which will move me to the audience and now
you'll see that i'm just an audience member i'm no longer speaking i no longer have those sort of
audio ripples coming out from my icon and then i can just put myself back by becoming a speaker
of course you can also mute yourself and you can also pick which audio channel picks up your voice
and you can also show requests of people who are requesting to speak so the great thing about stage
channels are that people are not able to speak freely but you can allow others to speak as the
moderator if they request to do so and if you accept so it's a great way if audience members
have like a question they want to ask or something like that they can sort of just raise their hand
um with the request to speak button and then you can go to your requests and then you can either
allow someone to speak or you can do away with that request obviously i don't have any requests
right now because i'm all alone there's no one here beside me but you can use that feature
to contain the room and then of course you can exit the room so because i am the moderator when i
exit and if all the moderators leave it will close the stage so you can see that when the stage is
off the icon is no longer green and when it's on you can see that the icon is green when
it is properly going so that's pretty much how you use the stage channel feature
it's a super great feature i hope this helps you guys and uh clubhouse is over so that's about it
guys i hope this was helpful make sure to check out our other video on how to animate discord
server icons also make sure to subscribe to the channel and join the pointing community discord
server by clicking the link in the description to join an online community of modern creators
again really hard to say like this video if it was helpful comment down below if you have
any questions or any video suggestions and we'll see you guys in the next one