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M_SAN04
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Mar 17, 2020
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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...
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  • StevenC365's avatar
    StevenC365
    Mar 30, 2020

    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

     

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StevenC365
MVP
Mar 31, 2020

Jenny_T1450 Install the Teams app rather than using the browser and you'll see 4 participants at a time.

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tonysutherland
Copper Contributor
Apr 07, 2020
What happens if people can't install the Teams app (for instance, if their PC is locked down), or they are using a guest PC, or are reasonably IT illiterate with respect to installing new apps like Teams?
  • Jeff_Williams's avatar
    Jeff_Williams
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 07, 2020
    you can use the web version of teams at https://teams.microsoft.com and log in with your account credentials
    • tonysutherland's avatar
      tonysutherland
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 07, 2020

      Hi Jeff_Williams - my comment was in relation to the fact that 4 video windows can only be seen in the Teams app itself and the web browser version can only see 1 video window - from a post by StevenC365 as follows: "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."

      There are a number of situations where guest participants only using a web browser need to be in a meeting and see the others in the meeting.

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