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End Team meeting can attendees still chat?
- 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-meetings
The 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.
- Yeah, my response was in regards to the only way you can do it per meeting, in bec064 option will do it for ALL meetings per user level, there isn't any in between other than those two options. The issue is, if you take the ability away from them in the class room to chat, they are just going to revert to Text groups, or other means while sitting there. Throw some pop quizzes on em, they will start listening when their grades tank ;).
- Hey Chris! AFAIK it’s per organizer? So you could just create a new meeting policy with the chat disabled and assign it to the ”organizers” so that their meetings do not have chat enabled. Or am I missing something? (on mobile).