🌦️ How to activate weatherman mode in Teams? [Presenter mode] ☀️

Meeting participants are usually more focused and have a better experience when they see the presenter during a presentation. An interactive presenter helps to engage the target audience more when delivering sessions, classes, seminars or demonstrations. Just like during a class, it is more pleasant for the students to be able to see the board and the instructor as in the physical world, next to or in front of the board.

In this blog, I explain how to activate this presenter mode before or during a Teams meeting.

How to activate presenter mode in Microsoft Teams?

1. After your meeting has started, in the upper right corner of Teams select : Share Content.

2. Under Presentation Mode, select the desired mode. Also, make sure your camera is turned on.

Select customize and choose a background image before starting the presentation.

3. To start your presentation, choose a screen or window on your PC or device.

4. When your presentation begins, the presenter toolbar appears briefly at the top of your screen. In the toolbar, you can change presenter modes, give control to another person, and record computer sound.

5. Press the 2nd button to activate presenter mode.

How can you activate weatherman mode without closing the meeting?

You can change the presenter mode without closing the meeting.

Presenter view - video explanation by Kevin

Kevin brought this renewed functionality in a YouTube video. Check it out below.

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