Forum Discussion
Together mode and large gallery functionalities in Teams
- Hi Ricky_Su
1.) The user needs to check the box for the new meeting experience which is under the settings. In the top right of teams, click on user picture > settings > Turn on new meeting experience. Once turned on you'll have the ability to select large gallery and together mode. Currently this isn't turned on by default. Neither is large gallery or together mode, the use has to select them once in the meeting. There is no centralised controls at the moment to set them as default for users
2.) There is no prerequisites in that they work in private meetings, channel meetings or meet now. Together mode AFAIK works with any number of attendees I have seen it done with at least 4 people in the meeting. Large Gallery mode - 3 x 3 is done by how many people are in the meeting but also Teams works out if your bandwidth can cope with it. In other words if you have restricted or congested bandwidth you may not be able to see it
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Melissa Garcia I haven't tested for Large gallery view so it could be that 10 or more have activate their video before Large gallery view is available. So it might not be enough with just 10 users and some of them with video, but I have not checked that yet.
Melissa Garcia I tested it now and Large gallery view is available when there is 10 or more participants and all of them are not required to activate video, the Large Gallery View option should be available anyway.
Thank you for monitoring this chat. I work in public education. Today we are having teachers practice ice breakers and class expectations before our students return on Monday. We have 14 people in the meeting, some with video and some not. When we go to large gallery view it is greyed out and says Large Gallery View (preview). Are we sure there is not a bandwidth factor at play here or a minimum number of video users. For example, we routinely have our teachers tell all participants to turn off their video. If ONE person is using the video, does this affect it? Thank you for any guidance you can provide.
Ryan Milani
I am having the same issue. Was in a meeting today with 11 or 12 people and tried to switch to Large Gallery, which I had used before just fine. After clicking it, there were still only 9 squares and the video quality diminished. When I clicked back to regular gallery, video quality improved.
Was there a recent update that might have affected Large Gallery?
Thanks,
Christine
Same here. Large Gallery and Together Mode had been working fine for me, but not today. Wonder if it's something behind the scenes they disable when the servers are taxed? The options were both there for me, and I could even check them, but my view never changed. Very odd.
