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Jasmin_Fuchs
Copper Contributor
Feb 20, 2020
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Anonymous chat function

How can I set that only the moderator is able to see the messages of the various participants in the chat function and how is it possible to make the participants anonymous so that only the moderator knows who is participating

  • There’s no way to anonymize users and also now way to hide messages for the members of the Team. Moderation is only to restrict who can post and reply to messages in the corresponding channel.

    You can use private channels to have conversations only accessible to members of that channel - but all members of the private channel will see the messages and who posted them

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  • champ17's avatar
    champ17
    Copper Contributor

    HiJasmin_Fuchs 

    its possible you can use parent and child flow from automate to achieve this. run the parent flow from users id and child flow can be run on fixed connection name(run only user can be different) so going anonymous is possible and i have achieved it as well

    Thanks

  • LindseySudbury's avatar
    LindseySudbury
    Copper Contributor

    Faculty at our institution are also requesting the feature of having a thread or channel be anonymous to participants with the option of the owner of the team being able to see the names of the posters.

  • SGP-JCFC's avatar
    SGP-JCFC
    Brass Contributor

    Jasmin_Fuchs Hi, I am using MS Teams to start a discussion forum. I have many requests by members to have their posts (both questions and replies) made anonymous, as some of the issues may be sensitive. Anonymous posts will also provide them with greater freedom of speech. It will be helpful if this can be done. 

     

    • Eric Watkins's avatar
      Eric Watkins
      Copper Contributor

      SGP-JCFC 

       

      I too have had folks ask for this function in regular teams meetings, now that we have large 300+ meetings there are a lot of folks who want to ask questions that they dont feel comfortable having their names on.  

       

      We can do this with Teams Live Events (there is a check box you can use to make your question anonymous), but not for regular teams meetings. Can we get that same checkbox?

  • There’s no way to anonymize users and also now way to hide messages for the members of the Team. Moderation is only to restrict who can post and reply to messages in the corresponding channel.

    You can use private channels to have conversations only accessible to members of that channel - but all members of the private channel will see the messages and who posted them

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