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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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Azurden
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Apr 15, 2020

M_SAN04I agree, this is killing me...

 

I have fought the War in my K-12 going against the Google grain to push teams as I feel is is what is right to use in functionality.  Then something this little about derails the whole use for the lack of being able to see everyone in the meeting.  Its like putting paper bags over everyone's head in a classroom and taking it off when it is time to talk. It's a joke.

 

You can integrate to SOME degree Zoom but does not write to the calendar in Teams and you manually have to put in all the meeting information.  If you are going to offer online meetings, the team members want to see everyone and not just the speaker.  This is going to have to change in order to be competitive.   If you want the K-12 space MS Teams has to listen to these type of feature needs ASAP!

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