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When in a teams meeting - I would like to see both participants and chat at the same time

When in a teams meeting - I would like to see both participants and chat at the same time. Right now - its one or the other. in Skype for Business meetings - that was not the case, we could see chat and participants in one view

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if we could pop out the meeting chat the way we can now pop out individual or group chats. Then we could look at the participant list within the meeting and have the chat pop-out on the side somewhere.

  • Kyle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    also be able to undock the lists, on zoom and other apps you can put the chat and participants on a second screen

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Microsoft - can you tally all the votes together, I have seen this added by multiple people!

  • BSMS TEL Help commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! In a teaching context, it is necessary to have both the management of participants and monitor the chat at the same time. This is even more necessary now that the helpful Raise Hand feature has been released because this requires the Presenter to have the participant list open but they need to monitor the chat. Simply having the ability to show both panes would be fine for the UI - surely most people have the screen real estate to have the choice of two verticle side panes if they need them. These panes are just as important as the video display so need equal priority.

  • Айрат Хабибуллин commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, this is so crucial! I would also add the need to turn off auto hide of share/mute/video_onoff bar - it is so annoying that you have to hover the mouse all the time to check if you are muted or not

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very much needed. When I am working multi-hour workshops, it is hard to know if colleagues are present to field certain questions when they arise in the chat.

    Currently, I have to use the web version and my desktop version simultaneously.

  • M. Sieb commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We also miss this very much needed feature. Please roll this out asap. Thanks.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We transitioned from Skype to Teams for 9500 users. One of the top complaints from our user base is not being able to see both Chat and Participants at the same time. Our company has deployed multi-screen to all users and meeting rooms. Having Teams functions modular in optional breakout windows would add very useful functionality, including video windows, Chat, Participants, Meeting Info, and windows with custom layouts. (e.g. Video stickiness, video layouts, chat layouts, notes layouts, etc)

  • Matt Sirko commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Looking for this functionality as well after migrating from WebEx (and previously skype for business/lync) . Not sure why Teams would not allow this.

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