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Allow non-hosts to view activity statuses of participants in breakout rooms

bmosp
Newcomer
Newcomer

What enhancement would you like implemented? Describe in as much detail as possible, providing specific use cases.
What: 1) Allow non-hosts and non-co-hosts to see each others statuses even when in different breakout rooms.  2) Allow them to see the full participant list.

In a zoom meeting with 20 staff, 10 are in breakout room A and 10 are in breakout room B. 

1. If the participant is not a host or co-host in room A, they cannot see other participants status (be right back, away, muted, screen sharing ...) in room B.

2. No participants can see the full list of attendees which is the second tab in the breakout rooms modal.

 

Who in your organization will use this functionality?
Who:  All who use Zoom with more than 1 breakout room.


How will they benefit from it?
How:  It let's them know if people are active before they enter the room and possibly interrupt and will also indicate if they are away from keyboard if status is set to "away" and jumping into that room with them will not get their attention.

 

Why is this request important to you, and how will it achieve your business needs?
Why:  It better enables Zoom to provide remote work coordination that is more similar to an in office experience with conference rooms and offices.

 

This is the closest setting I can find relating to this issue, but is specifically addressing host/co-host status, not participants.

  • Allow host to view activity statuses of participants in breakout rooms (for example: share screen, raise hand reaction). This allows hosts and co-hosts to quickly view participants' audio and video status, if they are sharing their screen, and if they are using the raise hand reaction. This feature requires hosts and participants to have client version 5.10.3 or higher for activity statuses to appear, and does not apply to participants joining on certain devices such as phone, H.323, and SIP.

 

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ExpertswhoJohn
Community Champion | Customer
Community Champion | Customer

@bmosp 

thanks for your feature request

 

John