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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 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed. This needs to be a high priority. More so than some of the file sharing and other features, as this is core to using Teams as a communication platform.

  • Jason Hall commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree that this should be a high priority addition. When hosting a meeting with large numbers of users, organizers should not have to moderate which individual users are appropriately using webcams and not. Even having to manage this one user at a time would be impractical for large meetings. As a meeting organizer, I do not want to be liable for an attendee "broadcasting" inappropriate content via their webcam, nor do I want other attendee's to be distracted by cameras that have no value in the meeting. This should be a meeting wide setting to disallow "attendee's" from using their webcam, as we can already do for disallowing attendee's from unmuting themselves.

  • EricW commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    One of those "why is this a thing". +1 to give presenters / organizers the ability to control meetings. As an IT Admin its painful to have to tell my users that they can't in larger meetings keep people from being distracting with video. Its great they can be forced to mute now but why wasn't video taken into consideration at the same time?

  • cHM commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Definitely important for businesses as well! There are often times where we do not want participants to share their webcams and the organizer needs to be able to disable it for participants.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree. Would be great to be able to turn off a participants video, if they are unaware their camera is on or if what is being displayed is not appropriate. Same as Mute Participant during an active meeting when hovering over participant, except the option would be Disable Video.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is something we can do in Zoom and in WebEx. The option to share files and emojis in Teams is great and we would love to make use of it for our classes, but not being able to cut off a video when a participant is distracting others - is a showstopper.

  • Carla commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We've had students doing inappropriate things on camera and teachers would just like to disable to the student's webcam like they are currently able to disable audio by participant.

  • Craig commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    defiantly necessary - this is stopping certain functions of our organisation moving from Zoom to Teams for their events.

  • John Bergeron commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a necessary feature for the same reason that being able to mute an individual participant is necessary. Disruptions/bad faith participation will happen, stopping all video input is not an acceptable solution.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As many have already said this is essential for education settings and should be implemented as soon as possible whilst remote teaching is taking place through COVID.

  • Shannon Orr commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree. In the educational setting it can become necessary to shut down a students video feed without having to remove them from the class. Please work on this for the next update.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As others have stated, as an educator using Teams, the ability to turn off the video camera of a student is imperative. Whether it be a button to click to turn off ALL camera feeds of the students while at the same time allowing the presenters video feed staying on or whether there is a button to turn off individual student's camera, this is needed.
    Microsoft, get on this quick; I cannot believe this has taken place yet.

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