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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...
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
How can my group at work see at least 4 people? LinusCansby
In a video meeting you should see 4 videos as long as there are 4 other participants in the Teams meeting and you haven't pinned one video. Currently I've seen some problems that only one video is shown due to high usage of Teams, but that should be solved as soon as they scale up Teams services.
Hi-trying to see all my students when I have a group of three. Is it possible? All of my students have district laptops and the Teams app on their devices. Has Teams services been "scaled up?"
Thanks
IllWearAMask If you are in a meeting with three others you should see them all if you are using the desktop client for Teams. (https://teams.microsoft.com/download)
- We learned ours is an issue due we the chromebooks. Our school gave us chromebooks see they we not allow us to see all four in the chat, only whoever is speaking and everyone else as an initial along the bottom. Anyone know if this will be fixed?
Right now we only see whomever is talking and the rest are in the initial bubble at the bottom of the screen along with my mini shot. LinusCansby
- Hi did you find a resolution to this at all? Thank you
- The most you can see is 4 at once, but you must install the desktop app. You’ll be able to see 9 by late April but that’s all. I suppose 9 is better than 4.
- Hi I can only view The person who is speaking and see myself in the corner. Is there a way to change this please? Thank you
- If you download the desktop app you will see 4 -and hopefully up to 9 in the next few weeks.
MartiH Haleym Do you use the desktop client? If not download that and install. https://teams.microsoft.com/download
