Microsoft boosting visible Teams meeting participants to 49

Microsoft Teams is set to boost the number of meeting participants you tin can view at once to 49. The company appear the feature will be coming to preview later in June in an education-focused blog postal service today, showing off the new seven-by-seven grid view that will accompany it. Microsoft says information technology plans to coil the feature out to anybody this fall.

The new limit is something Microsoft confirmed was on its roadmap in early June, but we didn't have a house timeline for its inflow at the time. Bumping to 49 viewable participants also puts Teams on role with Zoom, whose limit is also 49 viewable participants. The announcements also comes after Microsoft increased the overall limit for meeting participants to 300.

Taking feedback from education users, Microsoft also announced that educators volition be able to create breakout room for smaller groups of students to run into this fall. That's in addition to the "raise paw" characteristic for class meetings, attendance reports, and intelligent class insights to show how students engage with classes and assignments.

Additionally, new meeting options for educators are coming to give teachers more than control. One new option will prevent students from starting meetings unattended, while another lets teachers set who is allowed to present in meetings. At that place's too a "Meeting Lobby" coming that allows educators to make sure that only assigned students will be able to join a meeting.

Because many classrooms are likely to keep remote learning this autumn, all of these features should make things a bit easier for educators. For more on Microsoft's insights from the shift to virtual learning, check out Microsoft's full weblog postal service.

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