Moving the participants' videos to the top instead of bottom of screen

Anonymous
2020-03-31T22:34:19+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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-28T09:51:16+00:00

    Microsoft has obviously not done any User-centred testing on this issue.  I studied usability and it's beyond belief that you can't determine where each field of the screen is positioned.

    To have the video streams at the bottom is absolutely ridiculous (as everyone else has said).  It needs to be at the top so that you are appearing to have eye contact with other participants.

    PLEASE FIX THIS MICROSOFT!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T23:05:04+00:00

    Yes, please make sure to VOTE at the Teams User Feedback Forum below to get this feature! We need to gather enough votes to make MS move!

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/41235238-rearrange-video-pane-window-in-teams

    and here:

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40457692-adjust-position-of-self-view-video-in-meetings

    Clicked all of the vote buttons I could find!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T17:00:44+00:00

    Done and done! 👍🏼

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T15:35:09+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T15:34:48+00:00

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