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Only owner of the Team to start the meeting call
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.
StevenC365 We have recently deployed teams in all schools here in Palestine, this is by far the only problem that many teachers are complaining about, it's terrible and Microsoft knows it! would appreciate if you work on a fix asap, stop calling it a good feature please!
hhbadarin Hello, this topic goes back a couple of months. As previously mentioned you can control the behavior either with meeting policies or manage it per scheduled meeting.
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps
Change participant settings for a Teams meeting
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e
ChristianBergstrom go back to my comment, i was talking about something different! i know meeting options and i made a tutorial on YouTube about how to change them. As of now, anyone in the meeting is able to start a meeting, students are still able to start a meeting anytime from the team and there's no option available for team owners to stop them!
