Forum Discussion
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
This is so immensely frustrating. I'm a teacher, and we've been having wonderful class sessions with my 26 kids via Zoom. I can see all of them, I can respond to their facial expressions and reactions. I can call on their raised hand without them needing to hit the digital 'raise hand' key (and I don't have to 'lower their hand' afterwards). It's better for teaching, management, and community. The 4-person limitation - or even the 9-person limitation - will be a big step backwards. Unfortunately, our district is saying that Zoom is not an approved app and we have to use Teams. PLEASE address this issue ASAP. I can't believe that with all of the brainpower and money that Microsoft has, they can't figure out how to give me the same level of functionality as Zoom.
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
Hi Steve, as a teacher of 26 Year 4 students, point 4 of your post sounds good in theory but is SUPER frustrating in practice. Trying to deliver online content to kids who are 7 years old briefly and succinctly is hard enough without having to view multiple screens,find, click on participants, pin, unpin, find, click on, pin, unpin participants and so on, and so on... along with the added hassle that students can unmute themselves and derail your lesson.
So, we are using Zoom during lockdown which is able to overcome all these issues during lockdown here in NZ.
Just to be clear, this is a community forum, all the people you just tagged with your curt comments are unpaid normal people offering advice and help to Teams users during this lockdown. If you have something valuable to say then please contribute, but if your only mission is to criticise and complain with no constructive input then maybe think about how it might effect others. There's no one here, or I'm sure in Microsoft either, that wouldn't want to do their upmost to support the millions of people working and educating from home to the best of their ability.
It's pretty great that both Microsoft and Zoom are offering their products for free to education.
Please add full participant view ASAP, not just talk but implement please. we moved from Skype to Teams and expected this functionality.
- Sorry, but it is very confusing to figure out who is talking, and the screen switching around 5 times as 6 people try to talk at once. This seems like it should be a priority to fix, since there are thousands of requests for a better feature since mid-March. I would have thought Microsoft would be the leader in this technology, not lagging behind in last place?
