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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
alitaqvi wrote:
Well explained. Teams is huge collaboration tool whereas zoom you can compare with webex or bluejeans.
Exactly! That's what people are not understanding. People are focusing on one or two things that Teams doesn't do as well as an app/platform that focuses just on those one or two things. If Teams was only about conferencing, then this is all very-well deserved criticism. But look at everything Teams does do and how does that stack up to what WebEx/Zoom do? Would it satisfy people to say "Teams is a jack of all trades. WebEx/Zoom are a master of one."
Teams is a Swiss Army Knife. WebEx/Zoom are German steel scalpels.
That being what it is... Microsoft along with the rest of us understand the Pros & Cons of each platform.
But I doubt that many businesses or their respective IT departments are going to spend the time and money to roll out a completely new infrastructure to address what is hopefully a short-term annoyance as it relates to video conferencing. If we weren't all forced to work remotely, very few would be clamoring to replace Teams with an alternative.
If/When Microsoft releases the update to the 9-box, is it clear that it still won't satisfy most of the people in this thread. So why rush it? If they do rush the 9-box or something larger like a video feed for every Participant, and it doesn't work that well or worse, breaks existing functionality, nobody wins in that scenario.
What's more likely to happen is that your respective businesses/IT department will tell you to "make do" until this passes. Or, they may authorize a switch to some smaller/less expensive offering from WebEx/Zoom. And then once this all passes, you all will revert back to Teams because that's where all your work actually takes place. You need your Swiss Army knife more than a scalpel. The people that control your infrastructure and finances know that. And Microsoft knows that.
Note the main thing that our companies are looking for is feature parity with the existing skype for business platform. This covers not only video but audio PSTN as well. In Skype for business on premise that Gallery view still allows for more than 4 people to be seen at a time. Also the public version of Skype allows for multiple view formats as well. As said previously on this chain, Video of a single large screen equates to the same amount of bandwidth of multiple smaller size screens. Please bring the Hollywood squares view out ASAP to allow better use during this time of remote teleworking.