Sharing Presenter Views in Teams

Stephanie Hutcheson, MCT

October 4, 2021

Engage your audience with presenter modes

Meeting participants tend to be more focused and have a better experience when they see a presenter along with a presentation. An interactive presenter also helps guide an audience along with visual cues while reducing information overload.

By using a presenter mode such as Standout, Side-by-side, or Reporter in a Teams meeting instead of sharing screen or window content only, you become a more engaging and integral part of your presentation.

The following examples show how each presenter mode appears to an audience:

Standout presenter mode
Side-by-side presenter mode
Reporter presenter mode

Use Presenter Mode

  1. Choose a Background
  2. Select Share content button to see customize meeting and presenter modes.
  3. Choose Customize.
  1. Choose one of the backgrounds displayed.
  1. Start your meeting.
  2. Turn on your camera.
  3. Look beneath the presenter mode and choose the mode you would like.
    1. Stand-out
    2. Side-by-Side
    3. Presenter
  1. To start your presentation, choose a screen or window on your PC or device.
  2. To make the toolbar appear again, place your pointer at the top edge of the screen where it first appeared.

Tip: To keep the toolbar on your screen, make it appear again, hover over it, and then select Pin toolbar icon at the upper-right corner. To unpin, select it again.

  1. To stop sharing a screen or window, select Stop presenting in the presenter toolbar, or Stop sharing in meeting controls at the lower-right.

More Tips

  • Interactive presenter modes are only available for the desktop version of Teams.
  • Meeting attendees using the mobile or online versions of Teams will see a shared window or screen and presenter video separately.
  • When you use an interactive presenter mode, a small, moveable picture-in-picture window pops up to show you what your audience sees. If you close this window and need it again, restart the presenter mode.
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