How to view all attendees on Microsoft Teams

How to see all attendees on Microsoft Teams. A guide on how to view video conference participants at the same time with Microsoft Teams.

The advantage of Microsoft Teams is exactly that of being able to manage a class remotely by making video calls with groups and sharing a virtual whiteboard. Unfortunately, it has some limitations on the display of the participants.

Let’s see how the Microsoft application works and immediately after we find out how to overcome this limitation.

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Microsoft Teams works
How to see all attendees on Teams

Microsoft Teams works

Microsoft Teams is a video chat, private chat, file sharing, and live virtual meeting platform, created to simplify collective work. It provides you to create a remote work organization with document sharing and integration with Office suite products(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Outlook, Skype, OneNote, and other cloud tools.

You can log into Teams for free with a Microsoft account and use the platform with up to 300 contacts in one chat. The space available with the other members of the organization is 10 GB plus 2 GB for each added user.

You can only take advantage of the free version of Teams if you have a Microsoft account and don’t have a paid Office 365 subscription.

Microsoft Teams are available in two versions: app for Windows or in the online version that you can open on your web browser. In addition, apps for Android and iOS are also available.

To launch a new organization on Microsoft Teams, open the teams.microsoft.com site and log in with your Microsoft account, otherwise, you will have to create it by following the wizard proposed by the site.

How to see all attendees on Teams

I’m sure you’ve wondered why you can’t see all the attendees on Teams conference calls. Unfortunately, Teams has limitations and that is by accessing both the web and the desktop app to collective video calls you can only view a certain number of participants, which you can view from Manage team> members.

By logging in with the desktop app you can see up to 9 participants at the same time, the most active ones or those you can block at the top. Basically, you will see what is talking and the last who have spoken.

While from the web version you can only see one at a time.

The events can still support up to 20 thousand participants. 50 events can take place simultaneously in the same tenant. The duration of the event is increased to 16 hours for each broadcast.

For the web version, if you want to see the grid of all the participants, you can install the Teams Carousel extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. To try it on the browsers indicated you can download it below:

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