How to use the Discord App for One-on-One Coaching Sessions

This guide on how to use the the Discord App for one-on-one coaching sessions has been adapted form articles on Discord’s Online Help Centre. Any Discord App related issues or queries should be addressed with Discord directly. Clash School uses the Discord App along with the website and emails for communication and coaching sessions, check out How it Works for more information. Clients and prospective clients should therefore install and familiarize themselves on how to use the Discord App.

Desktop Screen Sharing & Video Calls

In addition to being a voice & text app, Discord offers up to 10 people video and screen sharing too. Both are available simultaneously anytime a video call is enabled.

GETTING STARTED

In your user settings page, you’ll find a “Voice & Video” tab, where you can adjust your settings for voice and video chat.

As long as you have a video device available, you’ll be able to select it from the camera options dropdown: 

In case of cold feet, you can click the “Test Video” button to make sure everything’s in order before making first contact with your coaches/friends.

Note for browser app users: You may need to enable camera access in your browser in order to use the device successfully. You’ll get this popup if Discord senses troubles there…

Just click the “Allow” button that comes up, and you’ll be good to go here.

Using Discord for Coaching Sessions

The next step is to open a private or group DM with the coaches/clients we’re looking to video chat with. You can start a video call directly here. Check out the Video icon up in the header next to the search text box:

ALL THE GADGETS

There’s a few different bits and pieces to maneuver through to get the most out of our face-to-face conversation. Let’s break it down:

1. Video / Screen share swap:

These icons will switch your main view from video calling to screen sharing. You can swap between the two mid call. When selecting screen share, you’ll get a few options of what exactly you’d like to send your friends’ way:

You can either choose which of your screens you’d like to share (yes, even for multiple monitors), or even a specific application window.

Side note: You can switch between application and screen views by clicking the screen share icon again when already screen sharing. Basically, use this button to do anything screen share when… You’re ready to screen share.

2. Expand Down: 

When in a video call, you can expand the view down so the video takes up the maximum height you’ve set for Discord.

3. Video Marquee: 

When you click a user from the normal view, they’ll become in focus leaving the marquee on the right. By clicking on a particular window, you’ll zoom in their feed to the main window.

4. User Settings: 

Like the icons next to your avatar in the bottom left-hand corner of the app, you can access the self-mute and user settings tab functions in the video window as well.

5. Full Screen Toggle:

 Clicking this icon will expand the video call to full screen regardless of which view you’re using. When full screen, clicking either the view selector or collapse icon will return to your normal view. You can also press Esc to do this as well!

If you switch to other DMs or servers while in a video call, the video feed will pop to a picture-in-picture view that you can drag around your screen for maximum convenience:

You’ll be able to access your video options by clicking the icons in the lower left-hand corner of the floating video. To zoom back to the call in progress, click the username list within the video in the top left. 

SOUND HOOK/SOUND SHARE

You can also share your audio while you screenshare.

When you share a specific window only, you’ll need to toggle the Sound Toggle for the sound share feature to work. (If you don’t see the toggle, the feature isn’t available for that application!)

If you’re having some issues sharing audio, try the following steps:

• Double check your Antivirus (AV) programs just in case your AV has flagged Discord. If Discord isn’t flagged in your AV program, try temporarily disabling the AV completely and see if that helps!
• Test out your audio settings and try some general troubleshooting following the steps here.
• Reinstall the app completely using the tips in this article.

Note: This feature is currently only available on the Windows desktop client! It is not available on macOS, the browser, or mobile client!

Mobile Video Calls

You can start a video call on your mobile device from a DM or Group Message. Tap the 3 dots in the top right, then tap start video call.

IOS

ANDROID

THE GADGETS

There’s a few different bits and pieces to maneuver through to get the most out of our face-to-face conversation . Let’s break it down:

IOS

ANDROID

1. Audio Output(iOS Only): Tap this button to change your audio output to your speakers or wireless headset!

2. Switch Camera: Switch between selfie-cam and your rear camera.

3. Toggle Camera: Toggle your camera off/on.

4. Toggle Mute: Toggle your microphone off/on

Tip: If you’re in a video call with somebody on the desktop app, they can screen share with you. However, you can’t screen share back!

Android Tip: If you’re having issues rendering video, try enabling hardware scaling in your User Settings.