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Copper Contributor

Dec 05, 2019

Disable teams (group) chat - Is this possible

We are in the process of rolling out teams within our School and have managed to disable private chat. However due to our Teams auto creating and joining members to their classes from our MIS API - ...

MVP

Dec 05, 2019

If you aren't allowing chat anywhere in the system, then why use Teams in the first place? Guess I'm a bit confused by the request as it's a bit unorthodox.

Joko__

Copper Contributor

Dec 05, 2019

Good question Chris.

They have asked me to trial Teams and Google Classroom. They would like teams to be used like Classroom for the classroom so I assume just setting assignments and marking etc.

Google classroom you can turn off all chat so I’m surprised teams is setup like this.

Thanks

ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Dec 06, 2019
You can turn off chat, but you can't turn off Team conversations.
- Joko__
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 09, 2019
  ChrisWebbTech
  
  Thanks for the reply. Shame, i will pass it back to management.
  
  Joe.
  - DIS1885
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 25, 2020
    I am in school as well. I am trying to stop the students from creating their own teams where they are using at as a social forum.Joko__