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Add a "Raise Your Hand" feature in meetings

When in a meeting with multiple people it would be nice to have a way to signal that you would like to speak so that you can be called upon by the meeting organizer.

This would allow users to show they have something to say, but they do not want to interrupt

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  • Usman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also, another very important feature should be introduced in teams that an owner of the meeting can grant access to any participant as the co-host of the meeting who would be able to manage & have options same as the owner.

    This would be highly appreciated if you may consider.

  • Alabi Sefunmi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To minimize interruptions in Teams meetings, it should be possible for all participants to signal that they want to speak by clicking a "Raise Hand" button. All other participants should be able to see who has requested to speak as this is an essential feature that needs to be included.

  • Nikoline commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The feature is critical for us to be albe to use teams for meetings, webinars - and the feature in Live events would be highly appriciated too.

    Please hurry on this one.
    I would gladly help you testing this.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So many more excellent ideas in the feedback relating to the development of the meeting interface. Raising hand has taken months and we now need the ability to automate the counting of votes. Now that would be a WOW feature for our board members I'm sure!
    Thanks

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Will this feature keep all participants on mute until the organizer unmutes them after they raise their hand? Currently users can unmute themselves which isn't great for classroom style meetings.

  • Sally Fielding commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This will give the presenter the option to unmute individual attendees in an MS Teams meeting which is useful when you have muted everyone. Attendees can indicate they have a question to ask by Raising their Hand

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great to also have a thumbs up to acknowledge understanding, etc. Thank you!

  • Mons Jensen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Great to hear that this it coming. Please consider adding raise hand feature as well as a separate poll/vote feature. Teams is an excellent tool but is behind other conferencing tools in regard to these two features. Thanks.

  • Mick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a simple UI change. Just show a hand next to the user name in the list of attendees. I just searched for this feature because it would be very helpful in daily standup to be able to "raise your hand" when you're ready with your status report, then "lower your hand" when you're done, so that everyone knows who's gone and who hasn't.

    A total count of raised hands at the top of the attendee list would work well for fast voting.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would have been great to have right now for comming board meetings and agree on the comment regarding rais your hand feature should have numbering system for attendees that raised hand.

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