Changing Video Layout

Owned by Nate St George (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 17, 2022 by Adonis Hamad (Unlicensed)
2 min read

Overview

There are three video layouts when no one in the meeting is screen sharing: Active Speaker, Gallery, and Mini. When someone is screen sharing, you can use Side-by-Side Mode or view the screen share with Active Speaker or Gallery View. You can also Hide Non-Video Participants. Any of these layouts can be used in Full Screen or Windowed mode, with the exception of Mini Window. 

You can also pin or spotlight a participant's video. Pin video allows you to disable active speaker view and only view a specific speaker. Pinning another user's video will only affect your computer and local recordings, not the view of other participants or cloud recordings.

Spotlight video puts a user as the primary active speaker for all participants in the meeting and cloud recordings. To spotlight, you need at least 3 participants in the meeting with their video on and can only be done by the host.

Full Screen

Any of the layouts except Mini Window can be put into full screen by clicking the icon with four arrows at the top right corner of the Zoom window. Full screen can be exited by pressing the Exit Full Screen button in the same location or using the Esc key on your keyboard.

Layouts

Active Speaker

Active speaker is the default video layout. It will switch the large video window depending on who's speaking. If it is a one-on-one meeting, the will display your video at the top and the other participant's video below.

Gallery View

When using Gallery View, each user has the same size video output. You will be able to see up to 25 participants at a time with arrows to scroll through the other participants.

  • Click "Gallery View" in the upper right corner of your Zoom window to enter Gallery View

  • This will not change the view for other participants

Mini Window

Mini Window allows you to minimize the Zoom video, but keep it on top of any other applications you have open in your computer, similar to a picture-in-picture view. You can move the window around your screen as needed or hide the video entirely.

  • To switch to Mini Window view, click on the OS minimize icon (top right for Windows, top left for macOS)

  • Once in the Mini Window mode, you can collapse the video by clicking on the arrow on the left side

  • To exit Mini Window mode, click the expand icon in the bottom right

Have an issue or article suggestion?

Email us! lts@boisestate.edu