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Have you ever been on a work call presentation and heard the phrase “Is person x” on the call?
To answer this question, the presenter often has to manoeuvre out of their presentation mode in order to see the list of participants or wait for someone to respond. This is an unpleasant experience.
Unpleasant as it is incongruous with real life situations. That is, if you are presenting to people in a room in an office, this question will never come up as you can see who is in the room with you. I believe the same should be true for presentations on Microsoft Teams.
Presentation Mode
Whenever a user is presenting their screen I believe they should be given a set of tools that will enable them to present well. Microsoft Teams already has presentation mode but this is a special mode that is often visible in specific situations. E.g. presenting a powerpoint deck. I believe presentation mode should be present at all times and a set of tools should be available to the presenter at all times.
Reverse L layout
In presentation mode, I believe a reverse L layout works best in providing the tools presenters need when sharing their screen. In the reverse L layout, the tools needed (participants, mute, etc) are shown at the bottom whilst the expansion of that option is shown on the right of the screen. So if the presenter selects “Raised Hands”, they will be able to see those who raised their hands on the right of the screen.
The presenter should also be able to see themselves at the bottom of the screen especially if they have their video camera on
Is Person X on the call
The toolkit at the bottom will include Participants, which will open the drawer to the right of the screen. In this drawer, a presenter can quickly search for a participant to see if they are on the call and their status (e.g. on mute, or on hold etc).
If the participant is not on the call, then the presenter can be given the option to invite them to the call
Pining people in your participants list
Often times, searching to see if someone is on the call is a bit cumbersome, so a better option would be to give the presenter the ability to pin participants they want to see first at the top of the list
Minimising the toolkit space
Sometimes the presenter actually wants to be in full screen mode, therefore the toolkit mode can be unpinned to allow the users to present their screen in full screen rather than show a smaller view.
