Allow organizer to close participant video in Teams meeting
When having multiple persons participating Teams meeting often it is nice to join with video on. Sometimes others may suffer a poor-quality connection or have their webcam pointed in other direction than it supposed. Is there a roadmap to allow the meeting organizer to switch off the participants video like you can mute other persons?
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Anonymous
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Having the ability to turn off partcipants' video is a must. All other meeting platforms off this as an option. Teams Live allows to not have partcipants video shown, but does not allow the partcipant to actually speak, only communicate via the chat.
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Giovanni W.
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We need this
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Anonymous
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This feature needs to be implemented asap for the meeting organizer so we can turn off cameras when needed. Thanks.
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yann
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If that feature is not made available, will have to switch away from MS Teams for our conferences/seminars - unmanageable without it.
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Ted
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we need to have a way for teachers to turn off a student's video if there is inappropriate behavior or activities - this is an issue for student safety.
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Anonymous
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I find it unbelievable that Microsoft has not implemented this feature. In a meeting with over 200 participants it causes absolute chaos to not be able to turn off video. There is also a safeguarding concern - if somebody does something inappropriate in the video the only way to resolve this is to end the entire meeting. Does that not strike a single person at Microsoft as being absurd?
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Anonymous
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I honestly cannot believe that they are working in schools without this feature. Being unable to mute students could very quickly become a legal concern. Making this possible should be a top priority now that the school year has begun. If I were a parent and something went wrong, I would honestly consider a lawsuit against Microsoft for openly saying in forums that they have no plans to change this. The fact that Teams is marketing to schools and not allowing teachers to turn off a camera is unacceptable.
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Anonymous
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This is a no brainer...especially in this critical time of educators using TEAMS for remote learning...a class of 30 11 year olds and the teacher should be able to host the class with no videos from them and the ability to mute their microphones. Please implement that feature quickly.
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Anonymous
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It is impeditive that a Host or a Moderator can turn off the video of one participant, This is quite mandatory to allow us to perform this type of actoin.
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Anonymous
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As a teacher, I have just learned that it is imperative that I have the ability to turn off the video of a student who is using it to purposely disrupt class. I am left with only the possibility of removing them from the meeting in their entirety.
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Anonymous
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Teams meeting organizers should have the option to block video for non-speaker participants. It can end up that a non-speaking participant's image could take up half of the screen, showing them watching (and doing other things)
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RS
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Allow anyone to hide someone's video, one participant at a time (like pinning, but opposite). I have a few teammates who are always on video (no one else does), and it's really annoying to have to hide half the Teams meeting screen just to hide their distracting videos.
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Landis VanderKarr
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Experienced first-hand today the need for this feature to be added as attendees were joining a live meeting not having their video turned off totally disrupts the presentation and flow of the meeting since their face just pops up on half of the screen. We've communicated in several ways for attendees to turn off their videos when they join a meeting but they still forget. Hope this happens soon! Thank you!
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Anonymous
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This is a must to keep people on this platform. My users are looking to other platforms just to have this ability
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Vishal Shah
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This is a must have.
Especially now that educational institutions are also operating in a virtual environment, it's important the instructors are able to turn off video of all participants.
My daughters school conducts classes through teams and often I see that some of participants forget to switch their video off, which a) hampers the call quality and b) takes away screen estate.