Allow users to upload/add/change background images without having to be on a video call in the app. Currently, the only way to update your background in the app is while you are on an actual video call. Otherwise you have to go through a ridiculous number of steps to save it so you can access the image in teams. Also, I want to try out background images before selecting them for a meeting. Sometimes the image resolution is not great or my head blends in with the background too much, but I cannot tell that until I am actively using the background in a meeting.

I am running 3 organizations -- all 3 on teams except for chat ...:-(
Teams-chat iUI s so clunky compared to Slack Chat.
Can you try to do the following:
Left bar:
1) Implement channels: let me have a selection of pinned channels at the top of my list of chats
2) Implement DM: let me have a set
3) Below that have all other team-chats that are largely meeting-driven - I suspect for most people. Collapse by default. On top of that I have multiple chats with the same person just based on meetings organized -- that shouldn't even be possible.

Right Chatwindow:
1) keep my own comments slightly right aligned
2) get rid of cards design -- takes too much space as do many other features
3) make more clean by removing for example dates from timestamps: do dates Slack style or Telegram style

Other:
- Keep it easy to be signed in into multipe orgs in parallel: and make them accessible in 1 click, not a 2 click dropdown, so I can also always see my unreads per organization

Have much more input .. but let me know if anyone likes this

It would be great if there was a visible microphone input meter, similar to what you see in Windows microphone settings: a little line that goes up and down.

Currently we can see an indicator of when other people are talking (the circle around their photo) but not for ourselves.

I'm not really concerned about how loud my voice is to other people (I know Teams is very good at auto-adjusting these days) but I'm curious how loud other noises are. For example, I know Teams tries to filter out keyboard noises, but I don't know how much gets through anyway. (I'm a loud typist.)

Current situation:
When in a video meeting with multiple participants, Teams shows the person who is speaking in large, and small video feeds of those who are not speaking in a row at the bottom.

Problem:
It is natural human behaviour to look at someone when you speak to them, so you would probably look at their miniature video at the bottom of your screen.
To the other person, this looks like you are looking at your keyboard. For them, it would feel natural if you "look them in the eyes" when talking to them. But that means you have to look into the webcam, usually above you laptop screen.

Proposed solution:
Limit the distance between the webcam and the video by moving the row of video miniatures to the top of the screen. This would improve video conversations and make them feel more natural. This new layout could be the new default, or a setting.

Upon entering the dedicated assignments tab, I must choose which team's assignments I would like to look at. It makes no sense that I have to select one and then click next when I'm not allowed to select more than one, either allow the option to select multiple teams or just make it one click

As an alternative to the above, I would prefer if the assignments tab by default just showed all my assignments from all my classes together with the option narrowing them down through some sort of a filter, a similar feature for the feed would be greatly appreciated

Hi Team,

First of all, I really love teams as it enables good communication and collaboration. But, i believe that there are some potential changes which could be done around well being of the end user (Digital Well Being). I understand and really appreciate features like Focusing, Do Not Disturb and MyAnalytics etc. I was wondering if we could have features like : 1) Let's say you put on Focus mode and you get zero messages (not notifications) during that time (So that you really focus). If people have really urgent messages, only then can they send it to you (emergency). 2) There is a mode called "Unplugging/time off/lunch" where in end users know that you're not available 3) During presenting mode, you don't get incoming messages. The idea is that we have power to choose these options and decide our own well being. 4) Teams giving you pings/notification that it's time to "Take a break" since you've been on the screen too long. These are some rough ideas I have and would love to discuss it in detail. 5) Screen time for Teams (Quantity and Quality). What are you doing exactly on teams on a day to day basis and how can you improve it? Would also like to know the upcoming features related to well being of the end user. Looking forward to discuss and see some Digital Well Being in action