Hey guys, in this week were are practicing our presentation in Microsoft Teams for Chairmans, but had delay problems, we noticed that when we share our slides in the screen, it takes 2 or 3 seconds for changing slide to everyone. I think everyone here has a decent internet, so I don’t think that’s just our problem, but a Microsoft Team’s problem too.
You guys are having any delay trouble in Teams too?
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I have seen similar things in the past with Teams. Granted, since it’s an auto-updated app, there’s little guarantee that performance today will correlate to performance historically.
At a minimum, be sure everyone’s got the latest version of the on-computer app (not the web interface) - that should help take out some latency.
But. Having done tons of online presentations in Teams for work over the past year… I’d have to say 2-3 seconds isn’t all that surprising.
Perhaps a more targeted question: is it causing a concrete issue with your ability to present your slides?
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Don’t have any experience with Microsoft Teams so I can’t help there.
But I used to have to do presentations on projector slides, which take a few seconds to switch. (boy am I starting to feel old) My suggestion is just practice, practice, practice. Once you get the hang of the timing, you’ll be able to click the ‘switch’ button a few seconds before you’re finished talking about the current slide so the next one will be up right on time. And if it switches half a second early or late, it’s not the end of the world.
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This may be tangential to what you’re describing, but just to share a couple anecdotes…
The biggest change I’ve noticed in presentations in the last year is that any effort that goes into fancy slide transitions of any kind, even simple ones well recieved IRL, get mangled by webcast interfaces.
I used to “cheat” my overly complex slides by presenting them one piece at a time via Powerpoint transitions so that each thing on the slide was presented separately.
Now I just have to have simple, static slides and can’t “cheat” overcrowding content by drawing out the transitions between slides. So the time I used to put into building transition flows now goes into actually simplifying the slides, and is honestly better spent that way.
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Honestly, 9 times out of 10, I’d take white slides with black text and an image or two. That happens to match pretty much every educator I’ve talked with it about, which is in the high double digits.
No complete sentences on slides, 4 clauses at the most, and a title if necessary.
Some people are on the pulse of how fancy you can get and still add to the presentation (and it’s sometimes necessary to get their point across), but the vast majority simply aren’t.
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Have any of you received communication as to when your team is scheduled to present?
We havent gotten any form of communication after submitting back in mid-late February.
Hoping to avoid the we get an email and have to present just a few days later. >.<
Referring to any judged award, RCA, DL, etc.
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What’d you submit?? Also, good job for submitting early!
Our RCA is scheduled. (IIRC they’re either this weekend or next.)
So far nobody else has a schedule…
Ok, now I’m hearing of teams that got emails of specific dates and times.
Got no such thing as of yet.
Because email takes longer to Hawaii… 
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We heard from one of our JA that we should be ready for as early as one week from today.
Also, separately we have heard wrt our DL candidate.
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We received our chairman’s interview date/time tonight. Deans list was notified last week, interview is tomorrow. We are still waiting to hear about robot interview.
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Clint,
good to know and Good Luck.
Hopefully we hear from someone soon.
-Glenn
I am just wondering, is there any specific reason why FIRST went with Teams instead of something more ubiquitous like Zoom? I don’t think anyone on my team has ever used Teams before.
It’s possible they use Teams internally already, and it covered all the use cases that they needed for these interviews. I thought Microsoft was also a FIRST sponsor, but I can’t seem to find any information about that on FIRST’s website. Edit: They’re listed under “Up to $249,999” in the 2020 Annual Impact Report.
Zoom also has had some security issues in the past that they probably wanted to avoid.
As someone who uses Teams for work…
90% they’ve already got it internally. Teams isn’t just video-conferencing, it’s also project management and office communications and a couple of other things. Given that those are already there, it’s relatively simple to set up a video call (or a bunch of them) and get links out to everyone.
Then you add in Zoom’s past security issues, which leads to school IT departments being leery of Zoom, it’s kind of a perfect storm.
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Except for the fact that you can’t just copy a meeting link from Teams and paste it wherever, because it’s formatted in a huge block of Rich Text…
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I’ve been using teams daily for just over a year, and in daily tel/vidcons since the summer.
Ive noticed poor performance on memory limited machines, or while I have a big memory footprint (100s of web browser tabs (don’t judge me), & virtual machines eating what’s available).
If you’re experiencing bad performance, try checking if you’ve got resource contention (Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up task manager).
Google Meet (formerly sort of Hangouts?) is really the more ubiquitous here, as it’s always been completely browser contained and will run on whatever “laptop” many schools issue their students now by default.
Teams now supports in-browser, but I’d put money on more (highschool) students having an account with Google than Microsoft.
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It’s been interesting switching from the Google Suite in high school to Microsoft Suite in college. The assumption made that Google Meet is easier to adopt I presume relies on the fact that a lot of schools have adopted Chromebooks. Based on what I know from hearing from professors and some internet sleuthing, there seems to be more “supervision” on the end of professors/teachers and administrators Ie things they can view to prevent academic dishonesty, etc. While I prefer Google for email and the functionality of Drive, having used Google Meet a couple times for clubs and organizations, it was a bit harder to figure out. That being said I do have my own gripes with Teams, particularly with the Activity tab essentially doubly notifying me, but other than that it’s worked seemlessly for school and work over the summer. That’s just my two cents though 
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