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Additional meeting and call-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for business
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Moving the participants' videos to the top instead of bottom of screen
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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?
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Anonymous
2020-10-12T12:58:27+00:00 -
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2020-10-12T14:18:24+00:00 Nice - thanks for the links. Just voted - can't believe these don't have more votes!
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Anonymous
2020-10-12T20:25:21+00:00 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?
+1 - this is a critical user experience item as we embrace videoconf as the new normal engagement pattern in business.
Totally agree, that's why I prefer Zoom
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Anonymous
2020-10-13T13:19:48+00:00 Please make sure to VOTE below to get this feature! It is not gathering enough votes to make MS move!
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Anonymous
2020-10-19T09:53:24+00:00 Agreed. This really is Video Conferencing 101. The participants should have natural as possible eye-contact with their colleagues. This is a major issue and (at the moment for me) is the key reason why Zoom is better for meetings.
I advise clients on these technologies, and for most of them Teams would make more sense financially (and for integration into the wider collaboration features of M365), but the lack of ability to move and control participant images is a big enough reason to stay with Zoom (esp. during lockdown when we're dependant on this for almost ALL meetings).