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End Team meeting can attendees still chat?
I am a teacher who has reoccurring meetings for my classes. If I "End Meeting" and all the students have been set as attendees and the lobby is turned on, can the students continue to use the chat feature for that meeting?
Obviously, I am hoping the answer is no. There would be no way to monitor it.
- Ending meetings only terminates the connected users A/V portion of a meeting, the other parts of the meeting will still function.
Only way at this moment in time to really not have a chat while doing meetings is utilizing Live Events for your classes, however there are some limitations in the tenant for these for concurrent live events, but to my knowledge that is the only current way to restrict chat, but this also will restrict you from interacting with students outside of QA when using Live Events, so probably not a good solution if that's a requirement.
teacher1400 This may not be applicable, certainly not if you want your students to be able to chat during meetings, but I just want to add to the previous reply that there's a meeting policy called "Allow chat in meetings".
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams#allow-chat-in-meetingsThe associated policy parameter:
-MeetingChatEnabledType
Specify if users will be able to chat in meetings. Possible values are: Disabled, Enabled.
For reference.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps
ChristianBergstrom Thank you for that information. Do we have to turn of chat at the account level (district level) or is there a way by user or each teams meeting?
I would really recommend adding this feature. Teachers are very frustrated with chat. Students are chatting during class on other chats. It makes everyone want to go back to Zoom. Thank you.
teacher1400 Hi Lucy, it's a "per-organizer" setting and you control it with Teams meeting policy. For example you can assign a policy with this parameter to individuals that have the need to disable chat in their meetings.
- Ending meetings only terminates the connected users A/V portion of a meeting, the other parts of the meeting will still function.
Only way at this moment in time to really not have a chat while doing meetings is utilizing Live Events for your classes, however there are some limitations in the tenant for these for concurrent live events, but to my knowledge that is the only current way to restrict chat, but this also will restrict you from interacting with students outside of QA when using Live Events, so probably not a good solution if that's a requirement.
