Tips for Teams meetings

Enhance and customize your meeting experience in Microsoft Teams with these audio, video, and collaboration tips.

Preview your video

When you're in a meeting, preview your video before you turn on your camera:

Select the dropdown arrow next to Camera

• Select Blur to blur your background.
• Select More background effects to preview a custom background or add your own.

Share your screen

• In your meeting controls, select Share

• Your desktop
• Your windows
• PowerPoint presentation
• Whiteboard

Raise your hand and show reactions

• Select React

to choose a reaction to engage in a meeting: Select Raise

Spotlight a video

When a featured speaker's talking, spotlight their video so it's the main one everyone sees.

Right-click the video or avatar of the presenter you want to spotlight. Then, select Spotlight

. Select People

to see a list of everyone in the meeting. In the list, right-click the name of the person whose video you want to highlight and select Spotlight for everyone

Choose a video layout

There are different video layouts for your meeting. On the meeting controls, select View

Gallery

: This is the default view that shows a 3x3 video layout.

• If there's more than nine people, Teams prioritizes anyone with their video turned on, or those speaking the most.

Together mode

• Together mode is available if there's at least five people in a meeting.

Create breakout rooms

Create and open breakout rooms to let attendees hold smaller, more focused discussions.

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On the meeting controls, select Rooms