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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
Sorry tonysutherland, think you're reading a bit much into that tbh. @Andre_LeBlanc and I have had a bit of to-and-fro on a couple of issues, and he's never been anything other than genteel. Suspect the worker bee metaphor was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Tugsim OK, I understand.
Probably hit a bit of a trigger for me. Over the last 40-odd years in tech, I have too many times seen tech people talk about those in the "user" community (the "end-users") (itself a somewhat perjorative term, akin to likening people to drug users - which analogy itself is somewhat inflammatory but the terminology labels individuals as undifferentiated objects) as not really worthy of consideration, since they (the tech people) know so much better what the "users" want or should have. It is an underlying attitude that comes out in unsuspecting circumstances, a little like racism (there, I am going to your another hot button), usually due to un-awareness, yet still causes ongoing problems, with the result that delivery of effective results for people is compromised.