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> * Why can I only see 5 people if someone is sharing their screen?

This reminds me of my two huge pet peeves:

* Why am I forced to see people? If I'm deep into helping someone else out, I want to make their screen as big as possible, I'm not looking at their face at all.

* Zoom spends some effort making my lips and voice sync up. Why don't you make my clicks sync up as well when I'm sharing?

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All these problems come from these video call services trying to serve a million masters. If you're in a meeting it might be nice to have a big red X while you're muted, but it's distracting in an online class when you're always muted. If you're in a class or doing a demonstration you might always want to see the screen, but if you're doing a presentation you may want to see both the face and the screen. How many people should you show while someone is sharing their screen? In my online class I would say 0, and in my meetings I would say everybody.

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