Tefters Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 So as of today my teachers are now slowly starting to receive Microsofts new Teams PowerPoint presenter mode... What a sh*t fest... Works great on large screens, pretty much unusable on laptop screens... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/now-in-public-preview-powerpoint-presenter-view-in-teams/m-p/2115212#M115 1
Davit2005 Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 Yeah it should be optional in public Preview, are MS not aware of the situation with so many people working from home and using their services.
Tefters Posted February 5, 2021 Author Posted February 5, 2021 Yeah it should be optional in public Preview, are MS not aware of the situation with so many people working from home and using their services. So here's the funny parts. 1. I dont have public preview turned on neither do my users so this is actually slowly working its way around in the live system as we speak. 2. Did no-one actually test it on a smaller laptop screen for scaling 3. Its a Friday and luckily i'm pretty much in "meh" mood but come Monday when it hits more businesses and schools this is going to blow up massively 1
chazzy2501 Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 you can turn off the powerpoint presenter in Teams via policy. I was thinking of doing that as it is terrible even in its current form.
NKPaul Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 Which policy? It seems it's started causing problems here.
chazzy2501 Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 meetings policy, if you've not assigned a policy to your users then it'll be the global policy under meetings.
NKPaul Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 It reads like that would stop teachers sharing PowerPoint which would stop them from teaching so can't be turned off.
chazzy2501 Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 I have teachers share the desktop PowerPoint via single window sharing. all the transitions, animations work best and is teacher lead not participant lead. they can still upload pp to files as well.
DrCheese Posted February 5, 2021 Posted February 5, 2021 Most of ours use the powerpoint sharing thing, so I'd have a riot on my hands if I disabled it entirely This is annoying, as this is a public preview feature & shouldn't have been rolled out with no warning - For those of us with large monitors it's fine (& this is much better), but a lot of our staff are working from small laptop machines & not happy.
Tefters Posted February 7, 2021 Author Posted February 7, 2021 So a few people raised a support ticket on Office 365. "Sorry this is how it is now". ...
DrCheese Posted February 7, 2021 Posted February 7, 2021 "Sorry this is how it is now". Which is just stupid, it only went into public preview two weeks ago - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/now-in-public-preview-powerpoint-presenter-view-in-teams/td-p/2062591 All this needs is a way for staff to be able to full screen/zoom in on their slides, it's not exactly a big ask for MS to be aware of smaller screens.
Tefters Posted February 8, 2021 Author Posted February 8, 2021 Has anyone found a Uservoice for it? Nope...
robyholmes Posted February 8, 2021 Posted February 8, 2021 Nope... Now there is: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/42646642-option-for-powerpoint-presenter-mode-feb-2021-upd 1
DrCheese Posted February 8, 2021 Posted February 8, 2021 There's *always* a uservoice. It's where requests go to die. Any feature you can think of, will be buried there. Usually under "Last updated 2018" but with loads of people asking for it.... 1
Techie-v2 Posted February 8, 2021 Posted February 8, 2021 Our staff have started recieving it towards the end of last week and we immediately got requests to turn it off! Erm... sorry..... this is how Microsoft want you to use it. Can't believe they didn't put an option in to turn it on or off, yet!
thimon Posted February 8, 2021 Posted February 8, 2021 Is this a phased roll out? I tested this today and have still got the old / traditional way of presenting using the Teams Desktop App. What version of Teams are you using?
kennysarmy Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 Just had my first staff email asking how to turn it off
DrCheese Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 Is this a phased roll out? I tested this today and have still got the old / traditional way of presenting using the Teams Desktop App. What version of Teams are you using? Who knows? MS were saying it was public preview only! There's no real documentation online anywhere about it being rolled out in general
Techie-v2 Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 Is this a phased roll out? I tested this today and have still got the old / traditional way of presenting using the Teams Desktop App. What version of Teams are you using?Version 1.3.00.34662
browolf Posted February 10, 2021 Posted February 10, 2021 You don't know who reads uservoice but this guy is the product manager for microsoft edu and he just released a new features video with it included this is the tweet to complain on 2
dparry Posted February 11, 2021 Posted February 11, 2021 We are advising staff to download their pptx to their desktop and then run up PowerPoint2016 to share on Teams App. Not a happy bunch of teachers. Also with blended learning - in-class kids and others remote on Teams, the presenter mode gets confused by the 2nd monitor/projector, it seems.
Tefters Posted February 14, 2021 Author Posted February 14, 2021 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/now-in-public-preview-powerpoint-presenter-view-in-teams/m-p/2132286/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufEtMNDM4M1RHOFdWN1k3fDIxMzIyODZ8U1VCU0NSSVBUSU9OU3xoSw#M133 Temporary fix from MS in the next 2 days with further plans later on. Love the fact that they thanked everyone for being part of the public preview and their invaluable feedback, twonks... 4
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