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Teams Live Event multiple presenters
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I need to produce a live event with 4 presenters. As a producer I thought I would be able to see each presenter's video and also their powerpoint presentation at the same time, i.e. they could all share their screens in the pre-live. I hoped to then be able to queue presenters and their powerpoints as needed. However, when the second presenter shares screen it fully replaces the first presenter's screen in the Live event - is there a way to avoid this?
If I have multiple presenters do they have to share their own screen but only at the right time in the event, i.e. when the previous presenter has finished??
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rach80 Well that was fun trying to simulate a live event with myself as producer and two demo accounts as presenters all from one machine 🙂
So I have come to the conclusion that the closest you could get to what you are after at present and would require all presenters to have a working web cam and video feed turned on. Is to Queue a presenter, send to live, queue content, with or without a video feed using the toggle, send to live and that would keep a continuous feed going.
To get the more preferable scenario, I have found the following user voice that I think fits the bill and has the most votes, so I would spread the word and get voting at the following: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38711833-queue-content-next-to-presenters
It might also be worth keeping an eye on the Road Map at https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&filters=Microsoft%20Teams as sometimes Microsoft are already in the process of working on a desired feature, it is just a question of time.
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rach80 Hey there - did you ever get any resolution on this issue.
I am producing my first event next week and everything is looking good. My only worry is not being able to queue up the presentations to send them live as and when I need to. The presenters being able to share these direct to the live feed doesn't make sense to me but I cannot find anywhere where there is a fix for it.
Let me know how you managed it, I have 1 - 6 hour Live Event, per day for 3 days - all with 12 presenters per day.
JohnMcRI've not found a technical way of doing this. We work around it by careful timing, training the presenters about the software limitations and what they need to do and using the host of the event to fill time between individual presenters.
i.e. Appearing on screen (background activity)
Host introduces Presenter 1 (producer requests content from Presenter 1, Presenter 1 shares screen, Producer queues content)
Presenter 1 presents
Host recaps Presentation 1, introduces Presenter 2 ((producer requests content from Presenter 2, Presenter 2 shares screen, Producer queues content)
Presenter 2 presents
etc.
For presenters who really can't get this, someone else hosts their deck of slides and they have to say "next slide please"
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@HenryPhillipsNimbitechHi you can have multiple presenters on screen at once and make it much easier to have interactive panels and presentations. If you want to learn more and see this working please contact me.
We producer for corporates this functionality using MS teams.
See example MS Teams event with a discussion panel here on my linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6786288262706163712/
We can also provide remote clickers over the internet to presenters. So you don't have to rely on presenters saying Next Slide....
kr Ian
rach80 Might be worth going through https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/produce-a-live-event-using-teams-591bd694-121d-405c-b26d-730315e45a22
And the Screen Sharing Section of https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/best-practices-for-producing-a-teams-live-event-e500370e-4dd1-4187-8b48-af10ef02cf42
But either way you should certainly be able to Queue and commit to Live when ready, not sure how that works in terms of taking the content from another presenter though. Which could be more the issue you are having.
I initially thought it would be more you as the Producer, queue and commit to live and then a presenter steps in and presents on the content that is currently being delivered in Live.
If no one else steps in or you are still struggling, shout up and I will play out the scenario myself to see if I can come up with a solid answer or at least provide a conclusion.
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HenryPhillipsNimbitech thanks for your reply. I want each presenter to be able to control progression of their own presentation so it makes sense that they share it. I just wanted to be able to queue their presentation so I could bring it up for them when they are ready and have introduced themselves via video, therefore saving them stopping their flow and sharing the screen whilst their video is live.
The problem seems to be that I can only have one presenter's screen as my content. As soon as another presenter shares it then takes over any presentation that's currently live.
Just seems strange to me? I guess the simple version of my question is how do I as producer see more than one presenter's content?
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rach80 - We had the same issue and never were satisfied with any of the workarounds - so we made NextSlide. Its a platform agnostic app that lets presenters share control of an uploaded deck. www.nextslide.io. Hope this takes care of the problem for you!
