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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
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.
Have you read some of the other comments to this post? I think what he said pales in comparison to some earlier ones. I don't think my own District gets Microsoft free (but I could be wrong) It's frustrating to try to teach, manage 20 students remotely, and figure out the technology at the same time. I have received great advice and some frustration. I will take them both. It's a rough life out here. Let's be kind to each other. Hopefully we will have solutions to these dilemmas soon. I don't use zoom in my instruction, but do attend zoom meetings and there's definitely a better feeling of community, which is sorely needed in Teams. Thank you ALL!
