Meetings - Hands Up

Meetings - Hands Up

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What is ‘Hands Up’?

This is a way of raising a “virtual hand” to indicate you wish to talk during a Teams call.

How do I use the ‘Hands Up’ feature?

  1. Reactions button.  Hands Up iconClick the ‘Reactions’ button in the toolbar.
  2. Click the ‘Hands up’ icon.

How do you know if someone has their ‘Hands Up’?

example of how the hands up icon appears during a meetingIf you have the participants window open a yellow hand icon will be displayed at the right hand side of the name.

example of how the hands up icon appears in the toolbar during a meetingIf you have the toolbar open the number of ‘hand up’ and who they belong to will be displayed.