using a second external camera with microsoft teams

Anonymous
2020-04-06T23:34:50+00:00

I am an educator and will be using Microsoft Teams with students.  Is there a way to use a second external camera and share that image with the people in your meeting at the same time as the primary camera on my laptop?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-07T15:12:43+00:00

    Please Please Please add a multiple camera feature within Teams!!! Zoom and other platforms already have it. As an engineering teacher, I cannot share a screen or use the whiteboard to show how to properly solder a resistor in place, nor can I lift a camera and hold it while doing a demonstration. Physically moving a camera in the middle of a class is very unprofessional, as well as a time waste.

    Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-08T12:43:09+00:00

    Hi 

    There is a workaround that I have been using a few times.  

    In a meeting I configure Teams to use one camera and then I start up the Windows Camera-app connected to the other Camera and then share that App.

    In my case I have a camera showing a projector screen and the teacher.  It works pretty good.

    Good luck, 

    Henrik Andersen

    Technical IT-Strategist

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-12T23:33:18+00:00

    As teachers, we need the secondary camera share feature to teach with.  For instance, if I am demonstrating how to solve an algebra problem with multiple steps, I want to actually solve the problem while interacting with the students.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-13T19:55:12+00:00

    Please add the additional camera feature.   This would be so useful in so many ways.   Thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-14T19:16:57+00:00

    I'm A speech pathologist and it is very important for my students to see me as well the materials I am sharing.  That is why I posted the question about using a second camera.  My school system no longer allows us to use Zoom but I was able to share my materials with a second camera and my students could still see me.

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