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verity-20
Copper Contributor
Aug 26, 2020

Pinning and unpinning host on Teams

I would be grateful if someone could please help me. In a teams meeting is it possible for the host to change what the participants are seeing? I would like to start the meeting with everyone able to see each other and say hello but once the meeting starts I would like to be able to pin myself to be full screen so the participants can only see me. I would then like to unpin myself from full screen at the end of the session to allow the participants to see one another again. I have found a way for the participants to manually do this themselves however the people I am working with have disabilities so this is not possible. Therefore I as the host need to be able to change between pinning myself full screen and back to the normal multi participant view. Is this possible? It is possible on Zoom but I am yet to find a way to do this on Teams.

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  • ChristianBergstrom's avatar
    ChristianBergstrom
    Silver Contributor
    Aug 26, 2020

    verity-20 Hello Verity, there's a very similar UserVoice request that you can vote on to stay updated as status changes. In other words it's not possible today I'm afraid.

     

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35796445-lock-the-video-spotlight

     

    Hope that answers your question.

     

    Btw, here's the road map for the feature!

     

    Microsoft Teams: spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams&searchterms=67090

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