{"id":14159,"date":"2021-02-03T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2021-02-14T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:56:38","slug":"low-bandwidth-teams-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/low-bandwidth-teams-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Bandwidth Teams Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like half the teachers in Scotland I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time in Teams recently <a id=\"fnr1-2021-02-03\" href=\"#fn1-2021-02-03\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<br \/>\nOne of the problems I&#8217;ve had is pupils not seeing the slides when I use PowerPoint. It is not a PowerPoint problem as we have the same problem with screen sharing and the Whiteboard. Ironically the problem shows up for the children who are in school. I presume a bandwidth problem.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working around the problem by taking screenshots as we go through a presentation and pasting into the chat. Somewhat to my surprise this works well.<\/p>\n<p>On a mac \u2318-shift-4 give me a cross hair and if I hold the control key down then I release the mouse the image goes to the clipboard and can be pasted into the Teams chat with \u2318-v.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found this really quick to do. In fact last session when I ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/simpler-meet\/\">using the chat as a presentation tool<\/a>\u00a0this time around Teams seems more reliable, but this is stll good for the pupils on the end of a poor connection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">1. <a id=\"fn1-2021-02-03\"><\/a>Despite my love of tech I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve enjoyed it particularly, I much prefer the physical classroom, I presume the other half of Scots teachers are in Google Meet. <a href=\"#fnr1-2021-02-03\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like half the teachers in Scotland I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time in Teams recently 1. One of the problems I&#8217;ve had is pupils not seeing the slides when I use PowerPoint. It is not a PowerPoint problem as we have the same problem with screen sharing and the Whiteboard. Ironically the problem shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1140,1122,1118],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-lockdown","8":"tag-microsoftteams","9":"tag-teams","10":"kind-note","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-3Gn","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14216,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}