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VIEW ALL PARTICIPANTS IN VIDEO MEETING
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
Please tell me the update will be sooner than April ...
I am using this for my entire class and need it for 25-30 students. What can be done so that I can see and monitor all my students?
Daniel-Howell absolutely agree, it’s critical for all members to appear
We use Teams at work for quick updates during the day with coworkers, but bosses like to see everyone in a meeting, so we use Zoom for staff meetings.
I really dislike using Zoom!
Please update Teams to have an "all participants" view. I thought Teams would be the end of third-party conferencing apps with meeting invites sent via email links, like Webex and Gotomeeting, but here we are with Zoom.
I agree. I'm assisting teachers using Teams, and teachers have told me that they would like to see all students in their classes. And, yes, that could be 25-30 students.
Daniel-Howell I agree 100%! Today I tried a Teams Meeting with my 30 students. It was confusing and hard to figure out who was talking. The students suggested we use Zoom but unfortunately it's not an approved app for our school board so we are stuck with Teams.
With the need to teach remotely for the foreseeable future there must be a way for Microsoft to allow all participants to be seen at once!
