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VIEW ALL PARTICIPANTS IN VIDEO MEETING
We have 8 people on a daily video meeting in Teams. Default setup gives 3 or 4 video screens and then rest only appear as small icons in the bottom corner. We need it so all 8 can be seen with th...
Right, lots in this thread to unpack.
1. The 4 video view will work in the desktop app on Windows, Mac, Linux or the mobile app on Apple or Android. It is not possible in the browser. I don't believe this is likely to change in any useful time period.
2. The 9 video view is in development, and Microsoft have heard loud and clear from MVPs that it's important. As far as I know it won't be here during April.
3. The view you see will always be the students that talked most recently. If you keep your students muted and unmute to speak it shouldn't be confusing to work out who is speaking.
4. As the teacher you can select any of the students in your meeting to view their video by clicking on the ... next to their name in the list of attendees and selecting pin, once you have finished unpin to get back to active speakers.
4. Your school districts are probably wise to not permit the use of Zoom, they have a responsibility to not allow your student data to be accessed by third parties or several other risks. Look up zoom bombing if you think it'll be fine, or when zoom were sending data to Facebook without permission, or when hackers worked out how to access private meetings.
5. Teams has very good controls to allow you to keep order during a meeting, controlling who can speak, present etc. It's harder to achieve this in Zoom. Tips in my video attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKdlyf_KDCg
In a video meeting you should see 4 videos as long as there are 4 other participants in the Teams meeting and you haven't pinned one video. Currently I've seen some problems that only one video is shown due to high usage of Teams, but that should be solved as soon as they scale up Teams services.
Right now we only see whomever is talking and the rest are in the initial bubble at the bottom of the screen along with my mini shot. LinusCansby
- Hi did you find a resolution to this at all? Thank you
- The most you can see is 4 at once, but you must install the desktop app. You’ll be able to see 9 by late April but that’s all. I suppose 9 is better than 4.
- Hi I can only view The person who is speaking and see myself in the corner. Is there a way to change this please? Thank you
MartiH Haleym Do you use the desktop client? If not download that and install. https://teams.microsoft.com/download
Hello! I was actually asked this by a co-worker and I have reached out to him, but I am 99% sure it was the desktop client. The person speaking was large, with the others across the bottom of the screen. LinusCansby
I've seen that there are some problems currently that only one active speaker is visible (instead of four). If you are using Teams Web App, try the desktop client instead.
I did a video meeting this morning with 3 participants and only my video showed in the bottom right corner. The other participants only had a profile pic showing, not their video - until they spoke and popped up on the large screen.
Bonnie2020 Did you use the desktop client? (https://teams.microsoft.com/download).
did you find the answer how to see all four? LinusCansby
We also need all participant viewable. I am trying to wean my organisation of zoom, but when the capabilities are not equivalent it’s difficult.
With so many remote workers and groups due to Covid19 this is more important to us than ever.
Edineen2020 I have found it really embarrassing, as an IT department, that we have been shouting out about the exiting collaboration abilities that we would have using Teams, especially if we ever need to work remotely, then along comes Covid 19 and i have my CEO promoting zoom and absolutely rubbishing Teams specifically for this issue! Come on Microsoft, how can you just sit there and not realise this is a major business loss for you if you don't make a change that is equivalent to your major competitors!!
