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More options as Teams meeting organizer, e.g. mute all participants
Hey Harold,
The 'Mute All Participants' feature is coming this quarter.
javornelas You are not missing anything with regard to the mute button being unavailable to unmute a user. Being able to un-mute someone would allow you to invade their privacy and eaves drop on them when they believed they were muted. There should be NO solution that allows a host to un-mute a user due to this privacy concern.
There could be a solution where you can request a user to un-mute, and they receive a pop up on their screen that states who is asking them to un-mute and gives them a simple user interface to activate their audio (for the tech challenged as you state).
That is by far the stupidest thing I have ever heard. If a user is in a meeting means they are following the meeting and not talking to their wife or co worker or bank. lol you know thee is something wrong when people actually start writing about privacy even about meetings you join my friends !! lolMigs
Sankarasubramanian Parameswaran
yes we all are facing such issues and looking for the solution what you stated here
support!
Sankarasubramanian Parameswaran I agree that a participant report would be very useful!
- Whether we have option to create meeting with Mute option in Teams
- I think we don’t have option to unmute the attendees when we mute all. Do you think when we will get the option. We don’t want participant to unmute them selves
- We want only presenter have option of video and audio not attendee . do you have the option
- When the new feature will be released to us and how long it will take
- Do you have report to generate how many people joined – Participant report
I am currently assisting someone who needs to engage in remote schooling as well and we run into the same problem. Is there maybe a way to implement a feature that, after having muted everyone, would allow a participant to request permission to speak again?
I think this should be rather easy to add and it would help a lot to make a Teams chat with children more structured and organized.
Sarki007 - your opinion would change drastically if you were a teacher trying to quickly master Teams in times of remote schooling due to global pandemic. Muting all users and allowing them to talk only when asked is essential, kids love to talk and they are unstoppable without an enforceable policy.
