In Webex, users can alter how Participants appear on their screen. The default view is Grid View, colloquially referred to as the Brady Bunch view. The other views are Active Speaker, and Thumbnail View. The Active Speaker view shows only the Participant currently speaking and you can see yourself in the bottom corner. The Thumbnail View gives priority to the Participant currently speaking and shows the last six Participants who spoke as thumbnails above or below the active speaker.
You cannot change your view layout when using "Join with your Browser". Therefore, this guide does not apply to Chromebooks, any other ChromeOS devices, or computers running Linux.
This layout is independent of the recording layout. To learn how to set your recording layout, visit this page: Webex Recording Options
- Start the Meeting, or click on the Join link.
- Once the Meeting has begun, you will have to wait for at least 2 Participants to join before you can alter your view layout. Once there are at least 3 Participants, including yourself, you may alter the view layout.
- Move the cursor to the top-right of the video portion of the screen. If you have the Participants Panel open, the buttons will be directly to the left of "Participants (x)".
- Hover over the button on the left and it will expand to show three options.
- Choose the option on the right to switch to Grid View (the Brady Bunch view).
- Choose the left option to see only the Active Speaker.
- Choose the middle option to have the Active Speaker take precedence, while the last six Participants who spoke appear in small windows along the bottom of the Meeting window.