Mute individual participants in a meetingģ. In the Participants panel, click the ‘ Mute all‘ button, at the top of the list showing who is in the meeting.Įveryone’s mic is muted and the mic icon beside each participant in the meeting is shown with a line through it to indicate it is muted. On the meeting toolbar, click the Show Participants button.Ģ. It may be necessary to mute everyone in a meeting to prevent unexpected noises or to regain the attention of a large number of participants.ġ. To reverse this, repeat the process and click ‘ Make an attendee’ from the drop down menu. Click ‘ Make a presenter‘ from the the drop down menu. Hover your mouse cursor over the name of the person in the list of attendees and click the More options button that appears.ģ. Go to the Participants panel, and find the person you want to unmute.Ģ. You cannot unmute the mic of an indivudal attendee to allow them to speak when the ‘Don’t allow attendees to unmute’ setting is enabled.ġ. You also need to do this if you have chosen not to allow attendees to unmute their mics and you want an individual student to speak, without allowing others to unmute their mics. If everyone joins the meeting with the role of attendee, you can choose to make individual attendees a Presenter. Give an individual attendee presenter permissions

See MS Teams: controlling who can present. This gives you control of the meeting and prevents students from being able to mute your audio or take control of your presentation. Important: You should edit the Meeting Options to ensure that students join your meeting as ‘attendees’. This can be done before and during the meeting. The Meeting Organiser (the person who set up the meeting) can set the default permissions for particpants in the meeting by going to the Meeting Options.

Control the ability of attendees to unmute their mics (Meeting Organiser only).

Change the role of a individual participant (for example, promote a participant to presenter).

When you’re in the meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More options > Gallery at top.The Meeting Organiser and Presenters in a meeting have the ability to manage the settings of other participants. Dock people to the top of the meeting viewĬhange the orientation of meeting participants to the top of your screen  to maintain better eye contact with others while content is being shared. When you're ready to end the spotlight, right-click on the person's video again and choose Stop spotlighting. Right-click on the person's video itself and select Spotlight from the menu.Īlternatively, you can select Show participants from the meeting controls to see a list of everyone in the meeting. Find the name of the person whose video you want to highlight in the list, right-click on their name, and select Spotlight. If you want to focus on particular people in the meeting, spotlight them to make them appear larger for everyone. There are a couple of different ways to do it: If you change your mind, right click that video again and select Unpin. You can pin as many videos as will fit on your screen.

The video will be pinned to your view regardless of who's talking. To focus on a particular video, right click that video and select Pin. These meeting views will be shown by default, but here are some things you can customize in your meeting.

In Together Mode, Teams increases the size of the video so you can see people’s faces while also viewing shared content. When someone shares content like a presentation, Teams optimizes the layout to make that content as large as possible while also showing more video participants. When you join a Teams meeting, Teams smartly anticipates what you’ll want to see and resizes participant thumbnails and content based on the scenario. Teams meetings have been redesigned to bring shared content front and center and highlight active speakers. Customize your meeting view Customize your meeting view

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