Expanding the availability Gallery view for participants
While all institutions are using Gallery view for moderators, we're continuing to roll out of this feature to participants. As we do this we'll monitor the experience and scaling to ensure the best experience for everyone.
We increased the number of institutions with gallery view for participants during the May release. Now we're activating it for all institutions located in Canada, USA, Europe, Middle East, and Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
We're working closely with several institutions in the LAC region (Latin America and the Caribbean) to validate the experience and performance in their regional context before rolling out to more institutions there.
Activation of the feature will happen gradually for institutions between the 12th and the 18th of June. Users who have devices, performance, or networks that can't support a good gallery view experience will see their number of videos automatically scaled down to 4. Limiting the number of videos they see gives them the most fluid experience for their situation.
Just like for moderators, when participants enter a room, the default view is the usual speaker view with 1 big video along the top and small videos underneath. If participants want to use gallery view, they can pick the view in the top right corner.
More on gallery view for participants
When gallery view is available for participants at the institution level, a new option appears for moderators that allows them to decide to limit the number of videos that participants see to 4, in order to limit distractions, while moderators continue to see all available videos.
More on the Gallery view permission settings
