Participant controls in meetings - block attendee video
Just another Skype for Business feature that hasn't been built in Teams yet - need the ability to block / disable all attendee video as part of standard participant controls (including make all participants attendees, mute all, mute lock etc.) This was done really well in Skype for Business, but for some reason we are starting from scratch with meeting participant controls in Teams.
Ben Cromie
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Thank you for your feedback! The team is planning for this work. We will share an update as soon as one is available.
For the separate feature ask to disable attendee audio, we are pleased to announce this has been released. For more information, please see this UserVoice item https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/39784519.
80 comments
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Anonymous
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Similar to being able to mute a participant in a meeting, allow a participants camera to be turned off during a meeting.
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Paul
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Allow organiser to control muting of mic and turn off camera
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mike
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especially during recordings, the focus should be on the presentation, not the viewers
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yos
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some people have a limited bandwidth and it's a shame to use it on people sipping tea*
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Anonymous
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Yes
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yann
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very important. we have some participants doing funny things that may or may not realize everybody can see them. Organizer should be able to have the option to decide whether or not participants can mute/unmute and put their video/not put their video on.
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Kaushal Todi
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Have the capability to Switch off videos in a meeting.
Since Teams meeting are used for external event, business meetings and others, we need a capability to switch off videos such that only required people videos are shown in the meeting -
LUZME VASQUEZ
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Yes, please!!
It would be really good for organizers to be able to turn cameras off the same way we can close the mics. -
Alex G
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Yes please!
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Anonymous
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Strongly agree!!!!!
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Anonymous
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The orgnizer should have the ability to turn off other's video.
sometimes the attendee turn on their video, as the orgnizer, we should have the ability to turn off theor video like mute their voice.
ZOOM already have the feature -
Anthony
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Enable the ability for a presenter to mute any attendee's video at any time during a meeting as well as the ability to mute all attendees' video both prior to the meeting and during the meeting.
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Nathalie Boislard
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I find it very important.
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Denise
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Yes! This is much needed. We have this need as well. We have Members and alternates and listeners - we need to be able to turn off the video and mic of the listeners and keep the video on for Members and their alternates.
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Gary Huber
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I agree, this could save embarrassments if a participant does not realize they are being shown in a display panel when another person is presenting.
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Mark Norman
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Some schools will not use videoconferencing "for safeguarding reasons". If the teacher was able to 'mute the video' of other participants, this may overcome this fear. (A possible later refinement may be to have the speaker/teacher see the participant's video before deciding if others should see it.)
The fear appears to be that one of the students may have something inappropriate in their video (or behind them) that other students should not see. -
Marie-Eve Gravel
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Would be nice if meeting organizers could turn off attendee's cameras and microphones but also that they can turn them back on whenever needed. I am working with children so it would make class meeting really easier.
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Steven
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Hoping to bump this up to get more votes
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Dominique Neam
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During a Teams meeting, it would be beneficial to allow the organizer to turn off certain attendee's cameras (just like how an organizer can currently mute an attendee).
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Ron Garcia
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We have adopted Teams as our unified client. We use it a lot for meetings where every joins with the teams client and we have meetings where we bridge Polycom endpoints via Polycom realconnect. We have some meetings that users are asked to mute their camera but unfortunately teams does not remove the participant from the screen it leaves a shadow image. In skype and other vendors, bluejeans, zoom, etc. When you mute the video the person shows as a participant but there is no shadow image. This is forcing us to look at Zoom as a replacement for teams. We would hate to move to zoom but we don't see to a choice.