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Background Blur or Virtual Backgrounds in Microsoft Teams
- Blurring your background, or adding a virtual background, in Microsoft Teams while in a video call allows meeting attendees to view you, but prevent background distractions for the viewer, while protecting your privacy
How to Change Your Background
- Ensure that you are using the desktop version of Microsoft Teams, not the web version
- Enter into the video call
- Once you are in the call, hover over the video picture in the meeting
- Click on the ellipses in the middle of the call menu
- Select "Show Background Effects"
- You may now select between the blurred background, or any of the virtual backgrounds within Teams
- Select "Preview" to view before changing
- Select "Apply" to allow others to see
WesternU Branded Backgrounds
https://www.westernu.edu/publicaffairs/digital-media-kit/zoom-background/
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Additional Information
- To learn how to connect and use Microsoft Teams, please view this article
- Some older computers do not have the processing power to blur