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I initially tried this when my language learning course had to go remote and the teacher insisted on using Zoom. But I ran into a dealbreaker issue with the web

I initially tried this when my language learning course had to go remote and the teacher insisted on using Zoom. But I ran into a dealbreaker issue with the web view: It does not have the grid view of all participants' cameras, and (to my knowledge) it also does not allow selecting the camera of a single person manually. This is an issue when I need to see a flash card that the teacher is holding up, but someone else is speaking, so the camera switches to them. I'm currently working without this by using a device issued by my employer, where the Zoom app is pre-installed by the IT dept. and therefore using it for the language class does not make things worse.

smichael 5y ago
Try other browsers; grid view still works in some of them (Chrome IIRC).
tedmiston 5y ago
Confusingly, there are 2 different versions of the Zoom web app: 1. The "Join from Your Browser" links take you to the worse version, which I assume is legacy or something. 2. There is also a progressive web app version [1] that has more feature parity to the desktop app. It has the grid view built-in, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to show as many people at a time vs the desktop app grid view. [1]: https://pwa.zoom.us/wc https://pwa.zoom.us/wc
drcongo 5y ago
It definitely lets you pin a single feed, not sure about the grid view though.