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Microsoft Teams: Muting All The Participants Without Allowing Them To Unmute
Dear All, Is there any option in Microsoft Teams to mute all the participants without allowing them to unmute back? I mean, Is there is any option for the speaker to mute all the students, and th...
- 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
A new feature is being rolled out now that allows the meeting organiser or presenter roles to stop all users with the Attendee role from unmuting themselves
As the meeting organiser or presenter when in your Teams meeting select the Participants icon and then more actions (...) and you will now see a new option 'Don't allow attendees to unmute'. Just toggle this on or off.