Thanks to Andrew Hatchett I was alerted to the Zoom Webinar yesterday which was about the new features implemented on the latest version just released. I joined the webinar mostly out of curiosity. As some of you might recall I have been unable to use Zoom for my live webcasts because it lacked the ability to have a director stop someone else's screenshare and switch to another participant in the session. I made a request about a year ago for this feature and in November they said it was being looked at for a future release. Boy was I shocked to see this new ability pop up on the feature list during the webinar yesterday!
So now I will have to gather a few folks together to test this out. If it works as described I am a happy camper and will seriously consider moving my platform from HOAs to Zoom.
I've linked the entire feature list below which is quite substantial.
*Screen Sharing Enhancements
Ability to Stop a Participant’s Share
The host can now stop a participant’s screen share by going to the Participant List and selecting More next to the sharing participant’s name.*
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361953-New-Updates-for-Windows
I moved to Zoom from Hangouts over a year ago. Very pleased.
ReplyDeleteRoosevelt Gist that's good to know. To be clear I've played around with Zoom for a couple of years. My show requires the use of a slideshow to accompany our guests presentation or interview. I have a "director" who switches the presented view to the guest and back to the slideshow being run by a second panelist. Zoom previously required the person sharing their screen to stop sharing before a host or co-host could move the spotlight to another person in the session. Now this looks like it may be fixed.
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ReplyDeleteGlad Zoom is coming closer to fitting your needs. Just yell If I can help in any way.
Andrew Hatchett Thanks! Will do.
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