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Only owner of the Team to start the meeting call
Hi all,
Because of the Covid break-out I can no longer teach my students face to face. The schools here are closed and we have to teach using computers and the internet.
I noticed that Microsoft teams worked very well for this, and thus I started to make classrooms in teams. There is one thing that I do not understand, so I hope someone can help me with this.
The people in the Teams Classroom can all start a conversation with the rest of the classroom. This is unhandy because I can not guarrantee the safety and wellbeing of my students when I am not in the call aswell. Is there a setting that prohibits the students to call for a meeting, and only allow the owner of the Team to make said call?
I would like to thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Sven
- Hi! This is determined with meeting policy’s:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teamsHi! This is determined with meeting policy’s:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teamsThe problem of Policy packages is that it divides the people in organization to teachers and students. It may work for academic educations but in my organization, a trainee is sometimes a trainer in online vocational trainings and the roles swap. On the other hand, the change of policies takes time and it is not done instantaneously.
@SvenBakker is there really a safeguarding issue if your pupils can talk to each other? Don't they talk at school?
Talking of students to each other is not a problem. The problem is that when a teacher (who is also the owner of team) starts a meeting and another student starts another meeting. Then, there will be a few parallel meetings and this is very confusing for the other students which meeting to join in. In other words, the organizer is not necessarily the team owner.
I think the solution is that when the owner restricts posting messages in a channel, there should be another settings for the restriction of meetings. At the moment, when I restrict posting messages in a channel to team owners, the meet button is removed from the channel for members in Desktop app but it still exists in android apps (maybe it is a bug).- I was trying to edit teams policies, but that is available only for organization admin, who is not me. I just want to edit 1 team that i am the owner. In the team options, there is a Manage team -> Settings -> Member permissions menu, it will be very nice if there is a setting that say "Allow members to start/schedule a meeting" yes/no. Just that. Waiting for!
adam deltinger, thank you for your reply.
I have looked at the admin page, but a lot of text is greyed out. Could it be that the schools administrator has locked out these features?
This is the first time I'm working with Teams, and you never know whats up with school computers, so is it possible that the schools administrator did something?
Thank you again.
SvenBakker is there really a safeguarding issue if your pupils can talk to each other? Don't they talk at school?
Are you using an EDU Team, if you click on the ... next to the channel name, choose Manage Channel, and you can limit who is allowed to post in that channel. The General channel is a bit limited, but if you add another channel (e.g. by topic) you get some additional options.
StevenC365, thank you for the reply as well! Of course the students talk at school. But there is always a teacher around to sort things out if it goes south. I just don't want to give the school 'bullies' another platform to disbehave. That's the reason I want to be in the conversation when they are having one. Just to look out for my pupils.
I have found that option, but it only prohibits the students to type messages, not prohibit them to start a mass converation with everyone in the Team.
SvenBakker There are three types of conversations.
Chat - These are 1:1 or groups up to 100 participants. There is a switch that an admin can use to enable or disable this feature on a user-by-user basis. You might want to just turn this off for all students using a messaging policy..
Meeting Chat - Available before, during and after a meeting, useful for people to ask questions. Again your admin can turn this on and off in the Meeting Policies for all or particular users. This will only exist if you do not select a channel for your meeting, if you do then the same polices as below apply.
Channel - These would be your classrooms, the controls I showed you allow you to control who can start or reply to conversations within your classroom.
SvenBakker Hi, I'm a student. I have this problem where my teacher put me in a breakout room but even though she made us owners of it we can't start it ourselves. She has to start it for us.
SvenBakkerhow to make a temas meeting without being a teacher
