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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...

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adam deltinger
Feb 20, 2020
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

LindseySudbury

Copper Contributor

Aug 01, 2021

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.

ChristianJBergstrom

MVP

Aug 02, 2021

I would recommend adding this feature request at Teams UserVoice, there are already a couple there but with very limited numbers, see below. Other than that the only (current) way of being anonymous in a meeting while using the chat would be to join anonymously (not being signed in) also referred to as "join as guest" where the user can enter whatever name they like in the enter meeting dialog box. That name will be displayed with the Guest prefix added.

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38260045-anonymously-send-chat-messages

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40184830-anonymous-chat-function