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Microsoft Teams: Muting All The Participants Without Allowing Them To Unmute
- Hi joef1665
Live events are one to many broadcasts. Like a TED Talk or a lecture: you can read more here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/what-are-teams-live-events
Only the presenter can speak, but attendees can Q&A.
You would need A3/A5 licencing to set it up. Pros - no noise, no interruptions, can have large amounts of attendees. Downside, less interaction, harder to setup. In a classroom format I would go with better policing rather than a Live event - as a former secondary school teacher I would have an assistant/LSA to be muting anyone whilst I am talking. That's how Microsoft do it today whilst they develop the appropriate features
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Right now my students in Teams are able to mute each other and even mute me. Is there a function to turn off the abilities for students to mute each other? I can see this as a really big problem in the future. Or if it notified me who was trying to mute someone else, I could deal with it that way. But as it is right now, I have some crafty students muting people who are speaking and it is turning into a "who done it?" scenario. ChrisHoardMVP
Dear Help,
I am running a class and one student is muting other students on and off and also me at times. How can I stop this?
I’ve been told of a solution. You schedule the meeting in the Teams calendar then click on the meeting in the calendar. Go to “meeting options”. This will take you to an online website. Then on the “who can present” drop down menu, change it to “only me”. This will take away all muting capabilities. It also takes away screen sharing though but there are ways to make individual students into presenters. Remember to cancel the meeting in the calendar after you are done with video otherwise students can rejoin the video without you.
I would like to suggest that everyone copy this URL and post on their posts about Teams on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MicrosoftTeams).
We have business customers asking about that.
we have users complain about meetings without anyone - since they came later than the stablished hour (user mistake/problem).
The main question is: If the meeting had a stablished hour to start and to end, why user are able to enter later??? Make no sense!!!
Hi!
I agree, this is a big issue that needs to get resolved. The temporary solution I found is to cancel the meeting afterwards and that way they can't rejoin the meeting. Here is what I do:
1) Schedule the meeting in the calendar
2) Hold the meeting until it's finished
3) Go back to the meeting on the calendar and cancel it
**It sends a message to all students saying that the meeting is canceled which is confusing but they will get used to the process if you explain it to them.
- For that you have set meeting policy in Microsoft Teams admin panel
- Any details on that?
