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Linus145
Copper Contributor
Jan 20, 2020

Forum in Microsoft Teams

As a teacher I'm interested in the possibility of using Teams as a forum for class discussions. Is there any add-on that would make this possible? If not, does anybody know whether there are any comi...
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    CatalinStaicuAlex
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 07, 2020

    Hello.

    I use a free Teams instalation.

    I want to invite people and send them invitation on e-mail.

    The people that recive invitation acces the link and they will be  GUEST. They don.t have an accound on teams.

     

    It is possible to let Guest to view and rite messages on chat?

     

    I can;t acces Teams admin center to acctivate gueest chat because i have a free teams app.

     

     

     

    LinusCansby 

    • Jasonkcpi's avatar
      Jasonkcpi
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 29, 2020

      So my IT Services team we have a group we spun off from our daily huddle meeting 2 years ago that is in the chat section.  Our company is going to put on a 90 day retention for a chat but not for any channels under the teams section.  We like our current setup as it is free form and just constant posts without any topics like you can set up with some of the plugin apps.  Is there a forum style that I can be looking for that we can add to our general channel?  

       

      Thanks

      Jason

  • Linus145's avatar
    Linus145
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 20, 2020

    LinusCansby 

    That almost solved my dilemma! I wish there was some way to list the threads (so you don't have to scroll through the chat to reach each "thread"). Is it possible to make the answers/comments on each post not show unless you click on it? If that was possible it would look much neater. 

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Jan 20, 2020
      Nope, I've wanted a way to do this myself and thought it would be a very nice experience to have Topics listed out, but the problem is you would have people not using the reply button etc. So first thing they would need to add would be forced (Required) Subject Line on every post. I wish you could do this anyway.

      But 3 things Teams needs added to make this more a forum.
      1. Require Subject
      2. Customized View Templates, so we can make our own forum looking view.
      3. A way to set the view per channel.

      This would be pretty powerful to give Teams some more flexibility. And a bonus would be to be able to tag / mark as answered like Yammer. Anyway, I'm going to take this feedback with me to Summit, cause I mentioned it before in passing but I think it could be cool. Probably pipe dream stuff, but doesn't hurt to try! lol!

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