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Disable the chat function between students but allow them to chat with staff
Hi There everyone, This is my first ever post on this community. I'm an IT Technician for a school. I need to be able to disallow groups of students (Years 9 and 10) from chatting with each o...
- Hello,
It seems like you are trying to achieve the feature functionality that can be provided by Information barrier. Check if you have the proper licenses you could build the policies for the same.
Information Barrier in Microsoft Teams
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/information-barriers-in-teams
With Regards,
Satish Upadhyaya
Hi, there are so many great things you can do in a school environment. There are policies, a wizard and packages for Teams education.
When it comes to your specific question there are two policies for chats. One in the Meeting policy and another in the Messaging policy. If you disable the latter they will not be able to group chat or do 1:1 but can chat in team channels, and at the same time if you're allowing the former, they will be able to chat during the meeting.
Start at the landing page here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/expand-teams-across-your-org/teams-for-education-landing-page and look to the left in the navigation field for all articles.
When it comes to your specific question there are two policies for chats. One in the Meeting policy and another in the Messaging policy. If you disable the latter they will not be able to group chat or do 1:1 but can chat in team channels, and at the same time if you're allowing the former, they will be able to chat during the meeting.
Start at the landing page here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/expand-teams-across-your-org/teams-for-education-landing-page and look to the left in the navigation field for all articles.
