Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Meetings and calls | Other
Additional meeting and call-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for business
Please include this feature!
Moving the participants' videos to the top instead of bottom of screen
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Anonymous
It would be great if when a user is sharing their screen during a video call, the list of participants and their small video feeds were shown above the shared content rather than below it. Many times people are looking at themselves or other participants when speaking, and it looks to others like their eyes are closed. By moving the user's own image and the images of others to the top of the screen, above the shared content, there's a better likelihood that users will be looking upwards towards the camera rather than down.
Can this be changed in user settings or is this an optimization request?
Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Meetings and calls | Other
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Anonymous
2021-01-07T16:30:24+00:00 -
Anonymous
2021-01-06T23:48:52+00:00 How hard can this be to fix and/or address
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Anonymous
2021-01-06T23:17:55+00:00 Couldn't agree more!
Now I work in a project with only one other person and we meet daily.
Everytime we share a screen and sometimes have a discussion, we see each other by looking to the right bottom.
That is super weird knowing that we want to look at the person to show attention but it is stupid since we're not actually look at each other.
I am surprised microsoft adds together mode as a new feature which is not more essential than this feature.
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Anonymous
2021-01-06T18:14:01+00:00 Another upvote. Zoom does this. I like Teams but it's a meaningful disadvantage that we can't do this. Please add!
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Anonymous
2020-12-17T20:14:49+00:00 Yes, it would be so much better to be able to view the video thumbnails of the participants at the TOP of my computer screen, near my webcam, so that I can show better eye contact with the meeting participants.
In Zoom, I can move all the participant's faces to the top of my screen. But in MS Teams, I can only do that for one person at a time, by minimizing the Teams window and dragging it to the top. But that doesn't work with people are sharing their presentation screens.
Please fix this, Microsoft!! Thank you.