


When using the new meeting chat experience, users will be able to view the main meeting chat message history when they join a breakout room and also view breakout room chat history when they return to the main meeting. Retain chat messages from breakout rooms.Previously, starting a screen share caused the immersive view to be stopped for all. When using an immersive view and a participant begins sharing their screen, the immersive view will shift to provide space for the shared content to be viewed in a modified layout. Screen sharing layouts for immersive view.Participants’ display names are included when placed into immersive view, making it easier to find and manage participants. Show participant names in immersive view.This feature must be enabled for use by an admin in web settings. Hosts can sort the order of video tiles in Gallery view, choosing from options including sorting by first name (ascending and descending), last name (ascending and descending) and meeting entry time (ascending and descending). Additional gallery view sorting options.Hosts can enable their cloud recordings to capture sign language interpretation as an additional video file and view option when watching the recording. Cloud recording support for sign language interpretation.A new notification will appear for those who raised their hand, with the option to immediately open the Participants panel and take action, such as requesting their unmute to ask their question. The visibility of participants that have raised their hand is enhanced to make it easier for hosts to be aware of raised hands and take action to address that participant. Users can customize the width of captions in a meeting or webinar to suit their needs. Meeting participants and webinar attendees can select, through the client accessibility settings, to have automated captioning automatically appear, if captions are available in the meeting or webinar. Auto-start captions when joining meetings and webinars.Users can set their status to Out of Office, better indicating the user is away for an extended period of time and will not likely respond to messages, meeting invitations, phone calls, etc. Previously, video-off tiles would remain on screen next to the shared content. When panelists share their screen or a video, if no panelists have their video enabled, they will be hidden to direct focus on the shared content instead of their video-off tile. Removal of non-video panelists when sharing content.This response is now displayed in the meeting, rather than solely in associated Team Chat 1:1 for those users.

When a user invites another contact to an active meeting, the recipient can decline the invite and include a message to the person inviting them, explaining why they cannot currently attend.
