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See participants while sharing screen

Currently, participants can see others while the screen is shared. But the presenter cannot. I would like it to be able to see participants while sharing my screen.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be very helpful to see the children I am teaching whilst sharing my screen.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I bought a second monitor because I wanted to use this feature. Turns out that Teams does not support this..

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think teams are losing business to Zoom over this issue. I'm surprised they haven't sorted out such a basic need yet.

  • Toby commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I tried the 2 monitor suggestion below and it works fine. Once you are sharing, just go to the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and hover over the Teams icon until it shows all the active Teams windows - just click on the one showing all the participants and you have all the options back again: you can see all the participants plus the participants list for raised hands, you have access to the chat etc.
    So, thank you to anonymous below although I don't know why I didn't think to try it before anyway.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I found something that worked for me but requires 2 monitors. Start a meeting and then put that on my secondary monitor. Then screen shared on my primary. It worked so that I could see the participant list and group of people. it's still a little limiting depending on the size of the group, but at least it will show a smaller group who recently spoke.

  • JB commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature is urgently needed. Microsoft, please advise when this will be available.

  • Jacqueline Cacho commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey Microsoft,
    I hope you are listening. Elementary teachers need to be able to see their students faces while in the share screen mode. We need this ASAP. Really doesn't make any sense that participants can see each other during the screen share, but the presenter can't see the participants. I would never leave my 3rd graders in a classroom unattended in a brick and mortar building. Microsoft, don't you realize that elementary teachers are really leaving their students unattended in the virtual classroom when they have to use share screen? You need to take this seriously. This is a security and safety issue as I am unable to monitor my students.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have just used Teams to present - because my client uses Teams. I assumed my inability to present and see the attendees at the same time was due to my incompetence. I can now see that this facility is not available - and no one from MS seems to be listening. I am off back to Zoom,
    .

  • tmfitz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't understand why participants can see everyone at the bottom but not the presenter. Doesn't make sense.

    Microsoft are you listening?

  • Steph Nelson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank you, this function would be so helpful, especially to be able to monitor the chat as a presenter while sharing screen.

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