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Can admin set the default role of meeting participants to attendee instead of presenter?
I have the exact same problem with dahgijsbers ... and my situation maybe even more complicated as most of us need to start lesson in private channels, in which scheduling is not possible.
Our initial deployment is using a subject-based Teams and class-based channels inside. To make things like normal lessons, teachers are required to hold the meetings for their own class. With our initial deployment, as every lesson in NOT visible to all the team members, scheduling for channel meetings seemed not possible, so teachers need to "Meet Now" in respective channels; and in this way, they could not set the "Meeting Settings" and thus could not choose "Only me" in the "Who can present?" section. However, it is really labor intensive for colleagues to do so manually during lesson, since some would need to hold lesson with about 100 students at one time.
I tried to update the "Sharing content" policy for students so that sharing screen shall be "Disabled" for them, but testing shows that the student applied with the policy can still share his screen... so any way out apart from telling student to behave themselves?
- KoenKMar 17, 2020Copper Contributor
mayysyeung Yes, the teacher (as organizer) can Go to Meeting Settings and change who can be the Presenter. If you change this from "Everyone" to "Just me" the students can only see everything and can't edit.
- mayysyeungMar 17, 2020Copper Contributor
KoenK Thanks for your reply... But can teachers still do so if they have to use the "Meet Now" function in private channels?
- Daniele IngrassiaMar 20, 2020Copper Contributor
mayysyeung They can do this in private channels, but only with planned meetings (plan a meeting, click on the dots and select details, then select meeting options), but not when they use 'meet now'. We're facing the exact same problems. Because everyone is presenter by default, students are muting teachers and taking over presentations. The only thing a teacher can do during a 'meet now' meeting is:
Click Show participants in the meeting controls to see a list of the people in the people in the meeting. Hover over the name of the person whose role you want to change and click More options. From there, select Make a presenter or Make an attendee.
More info: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019I'm really hoping that 'Attendee as default' will become an option in the global policy in the Teams admin center.