Hi folks,
I'm happy to see Microsoft integrating Teams into an improved live event platform like this and my organization is excited to move over to it, but in our testing stages, we encountered a number of organizational frustrations and feature requests that we would love to see ironed out:
- In our testing, half of the presenters couldn't see any of the Q&As that were being posted. The questions would be submitted by attendees and answered by the organizer, but the affected presenters' Q&A tab would be blank. They were only able to see it after closing Teams and re-joining the event. Hopefully glitches like this are ironed out in the future.
- The 3 content sharing layout options other than "Content Only" don't seem to work at all. When selecting "Standout", "Side-by-side" or "Reporter", the presenter sharing contents video feed would be shut off and moved to the "Off Screen" section, and the presenter's video would not be visible to anyone on the far end. The presenter sharing the content, however, could see their video properly superimposed over the content in the "Edit your view" window, but the presenters camera would be invisible to everyone on the far end. When selecting" "Side-by-Side" or "Reporter", the content with the new borders would be visible to the far end, but the area where the presenters' camera should be was empty.
- Reading through this thread I saw that the Green Room function is being worked on to be used while the event is live. I just want to add my voice to support this functionality as it does not have much use to us as a pre-event feature.
- Please allow for the ability for organizers and presenters to see the names of attendees
- The ability to nudge attendees to presenter and/or co-organizer roles is crucial and needs to be included. I have experienced countless times in my managing of other live online event platforms moments when folks that should be presenters end up joining as attendees by accident and need to be promoted quickly without having to re-send them the email and ensure they click on the right link
- While in the event, a presenter/organizer's personal camera feed appears in landscape mode, but to the far end its cropped into portrait mode. Please either make it so that the far end is seeing landscape mode if the camera is in landscape, or make it so that the presenter/organizer's camera feed matches what the far end is seeing so they can properly frame themselves
- Please make the toolbar that appears when sharing content moveable. Please either make it so that it can be dragged and dropped somewhere else, fully hidden, or able to be locked to a different edge of the screen. It being locked to the middle of the top of the screen makes it very difficult to access tabs in a full-screened web browser
- The event "Details" can be edited in the Microsoft Teams app, but both the "Meeting Options" and the Q&A settings open up in their own separate web browser tabs. Can these all be integrated into the same section within the Teams app that you set the details, theming and email preferences? It's not particularly user friendly having to open up 3 separate locations for different meeting settings.
Please let me know if there's a more effective place to submit these comments and concerns.
Overall the new experience should end up being an improvement for our attendees when we begin to roll out our first events through this platform but for our presenters and organizers its been a bit of a headache so far.
Is there a page I can bookmark or a feed that I can subscribe to that posts all of the new updates and patch notes for Teams Town Hall? I'd love to be given the option to know as soon as new features are included or bugs are worked out.
Microsoft
