With new Microsoft Teams replace, bosses can “assign seats” in conferences

Picture this. You’re sat down together with your direct stories to your weekly digital assembly over Microsoft Teams. Your presentation is queued. You’re raring to go. But as you scan the ocean of digicam feeds that faces you, you notice that one thing is lacking. No assembly is actually a gathering, you notice, until the taking part plenty are seated earlier than you in a pixelated digital auditorium, organized in an order of your selecting.

Don’t fear. Teams has your again. In a recent post on the Microsoft Teams weblog, product advertising and marketing supervisor Holly Lehman outlined quite a few options which have been added to the software program all through October. These embrace some genuinely helpful additions — dwell translated captions, detailed name historical past, and the power to come out content material into separate home windows — in addition to this gem that I completely missed, which is you could now, if you’re so inclined, pull your video members out of their feeds and as an alternative “assign their seats” in a digital house.

Together Mode (which provides presenters the power to place their viewers in a digital house) has been out for a bit — however beforehand, the order that spectators sat in was outdoors of the organizer’s management. We all know that’s no good. Fortunately, it seems from the GIF Microsoft included in its weblog put up that seat project is as simple as clicking in your assembly members and dragging them to their new quarters.

The intent of the function, Microsoft’s weblog put up implies, appears to be you could make your co-workers “feel like they’re in the same room during virtual meetings.” You know, like the way you demand that your stories sit within the precise seat of your selecting throughout all of your in-person conferences. Good supervisor stuff.