Audiovisual means using both sound and pictures together.

When your teacher plays an educational video in class, that's audiovisual learning: you're watching images on the screen while listening to narration or music. A movie is audiovisual entertainment. A video game combines audiovisual elements: graphics you see and sound effects you hear work together to create the experience.

Schools often have an audiovisual department or AV club that manages projectors, microphones, speakers, and screens for assemblies and presentations. Museums use audiovisual displays that show films with accompanying soundtracks to help explain exhibits.

Before modern technology, most learning relied only on books (visual) or lectures (audio), but rarely both at once. Today, audiovisual technology is everywhere: tablets, computers, smartphones, and televisions all deliver audiovisual content. The combination of sound and images can communicate ideas more powerfully than either one alone, which is why documentaries, news broadcasts, and online lessons use audiovisual formats to help people understand and remember information.