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Prevent: in-meeting invites / joining meetings days before & after
I work at a school so we've disallowed students from voice/video calling and chat, else they'd be calling staff at all times of the day just to say hello / be annoying. However, it appears that stude...
This is a huge deal. There's no way we can use Teams Meetings with students until this is fixed. Any time you add "For Education" to a product name, the developers should understand that to mean "with loads of added controls designed for teachers to benefit students but under the assumption that they will want to ruin everything at any opportunity." Granted, that would be a much less catchy product name.
Mark Burland I haven't used Teams for Education but there are many features for education in this edition of Teams that are not in the regular Teams edition, like Grades and Assignments.
The feature that only allows the organizer of the meeting to bypass the lobby will roll out in June. So if this was the only thing you were waiting for to start using Teams you don't have to wait so much longer. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=64343
BTW, there are many schools using Teams for Education even if this is not "fixed", so maybe there is a way to use Teams with students.