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Only owner of the Team to start the meeting call
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!
hhbadarin Would you mind describing your issue in detail please. I do not understand this.
"anyone in the meeting is able to start a meeting, students are still able to start a meeting anytime"
- Sorry to hear that, but as the support pages say.
”IT Admins play a crucial role in setting up safe policies for students and educators in Teams for Education. We've broken down the best practices in this guide with explanations for different policies and configurations.” ChristianBergstrom I have seen the answer to this is a setting but that setting usually lives at the district level in the IT department. Our IT department can barely help with simple issues (yes, it is as insanely frustrating as it sounds) and have pretty much ignored requests or suggestions for what could make Teams run better for us. I'm hoping there is something Microsoft can do to bring that setting down to owners, maybe overriding whatever a district has in place. Considering this program was born to be used in the workplace, I can't imagine that there would be anything that would be risked by giving teachers all the settings they need to run their classes effectively.
- Hi, use this for guidance https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keeping-students-safe-while-using-teams-for-distance-learning-f00fa399-0473-4d31-ab72-644c137e11c8
As I understand the issue...
In a team, set up for classroom use, it is possible for students (team members) to sschedule or start and ad-hoc meeting without the permission of teh team owner.
This creates a scenario where students may be meeting online, using school provided technology, and issues around online bullying etc. may arise.
Could you restate the issue, there are lots of answers above and they meet every scenario I can imagine. For a long way up you wanted to prevent People using Meet Now to create a channel meeting, that's a setting in the Meeting Policy called "Allow Meet Now in Channels".
hhbadarin have you figured out the answer to this? I get your frustration in people not answering your question. Maybe I understand you because I came here looking for the same answer but it doesn't seem like it was addressed.
I have kids starting meeting 15 minutes before they start, I don't care whether they are talking to each other or not (which they can't because they are all in the lobby) I don't want my meetings starting that early. One student told me she starts all her meetings for the day at the beginning of the day so she "won't be late" (there is no tardy policy right now because of DL so I don't buy it). Students start the meeting on their end and walk away.
If I don't want kids in my classroom before class starts, I don't open the door, I want that same option in Teams.
hhbadarin no one here is Microsoft, everyone is giving up their own time and experience, but even Microsoft are just normal folks doing a job.
If you do not want your students creating new meetings you can set a meeting policy for them to prevent all forms of meetings, meet now, outlook, scheduled etc.
If you want to ensure that students can't enter a meeting before the teacher as already shown this is also now possible by setting so that Owners only can enter directly. You need to set this using Skype for Business Powershell, for example to change the Students meeting policy you would
Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Student -AutoAdmittedUsers OrganizerOnlyTeams does meet the requirements you've explained so far.
hhbadarin No worries. But even if I worked for Microsoft it wouldn't be appropriate. Just turn off the "Meet now" that you attached as a picture previously to prevent users from starting ad-hoc meetings, to begin with. Then while you're in the admin portal you can submit a proper service request directly to Microsoft support if necessary.
ChristianBergstrom Sorry, I thought you work for Microsoft! thanks for your feedback, i still haven't found an answer to my question.
Thanks again
hhbadarin I do this on my spare time besides my ordinary job. I have no association with Microsoft. I just like to help others out, so I do not appreciate your reply.
Several people in this conversation have replied as how to control and manage Teams meeting behavior. I have attached direct links with details and descriptions as how to do accomplish this. Do you really expect us to do all the necessary work for you? I suggest you read the documentation thoroughly and then configure the meeting policies to suit your needs. As you're obviously stressed out go ahead and turn off 'Allow Meet now in channels'.
If you are not able to configure the policies yourself perhaps the official Microsoft support are willing to guide you step-by-step.
ChristianBergstrom You avoided my question and went back to something totally different! I have classes scheduled for tomorrow 10 am, i wake up tomorrow at 8 am to find out that 3 or 4 meetings have been started by students in the team. The student goes to the team he's part of, clicks on" meet now" in the top right corner and easily starts a meeting! students join other student's meetings thinking it's the intended class meeting supposed to start at 10!
Do you have a specific answer to how can i stop this as the teacher of the class!!? specific answer PLEASE!
hhbadarin No. "This setting controls whether a user can start an ad hoc meeting in a Teams channel. If you turn this on, when a user posts a message in a Teams channel, the user can click Meet now under the compose box to start an ad hoc meeting in the channel."
To begin with, which I believe is your biggest issue (?) you want to control who can start a scheduled meeting? To do so you need to configure the previously mentioned -AutoAdmittedUsers parameter using PowerShell with the switch 'OrganizerOnly'.
Now I'm off to a meeting myself. Hope the info and links helps getting you started!
ChristianBergstrom so if i disable "Allow Meet now in channels", does this mean (only team owners ) are then able to start a meeting or schedule a meeting?
hhbadarin I understand. This you can control with the Teams meeting policies.
Meeting policy settings - General
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams#meeting-policy-settings---general
Using these https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps
Do note that -AutoAdmittedUsers (OrganizerOnly, if you would like that only meeting organizers can bypass the lobby) is quite new and isn't updated on the official Teams meeting policy page.
Let me know if I misunderstand your scenario or if you have additional questions.
ChristianBergstrom imagine you have a math team of 30 students, when the teacher who's also the owner of the team schedule a class for 10 am tomorrow, any student is able to " join" the scheduled meeting anytime now. also any student in the class can click on "Meet now" in the top left corner of the team and start a meeting, you end up having 3 or 4 separate meetings in the team!
