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Inability for External Presenters to Manage Breakouts is hurting our business in the L&D industry
JBeales I'm in the Teams org and have shared these details with our product team. Thank you for posting here. If other small businesses here want to share their experience and provide further examples, please tag me and I will continue to discuss with the team.
Yes, this is a massive challenge for many. I partner with learning & development departments in organizations around the globe, and hear this complaint frequently. Trying to work with external partners (vendors, contractors, freelancers, and the like) who need to run Teams meetings is a frustrating experience because they don't have access to basic needed functions like managing breakout rooms.
Other collaboration platforms (WebEx, Zoom, Adobe Connect, etc, etc.) easily allow you to promote anyone in the meeting to a "co-host" role, which gives them most meeting management privileges (including breakout rooms). This is a missing feature in Teams. In order to work effectively with freelancers, contractors, vendors, and others who are "external" presenters, we need this functionality.
Happy to chat more and share additional examples.