Forum Discussion
Preventing attendees from starting meeting before organiser
NICRU You should be able to change your Teams meeting options and set the 'who can bypass the lobby' to 'Only me'. This means that everyone will wait in the lobby until you join and let them into the meeting
NICRU You should be able to change your Teams meeting options and set the 'who can bypass the lobby' to 'Only me'. This means that everyone will wait in the lobby until you join and let them into the meeting
Deleted Thank for for posting the screen shot. Can you go back even further? I do not know how to get to that--I looked in my scheduled meetings and on the actual Team and did not see those choices.
- You access it from manage permission during meeting or while attendees are joining or from schedule meeting
Deleted I have teachers who have set up their permissions this way and students are still starting the meeting before the teacher.
burrowsa Things in Teams have gotten much better since last year. I have a good friend who was sent to "teacher jail" with pay for a month because students stayed in the class meeting after he left and one of them shared inappropriate content. The option to end the meeting for all users was not available at that time.
burrowsa They cannot start THAT particular scheduled meeting if the permissions are this way...however, they CAN start a new meeting in the channel on their own if they do some digging...the "meet now" still shows up in their chat reply bar, even if you have taken away the "meet now" button at the top.
I have had this issue as well. Teams is NOT friendly for education settings at all...I think we are all learning that together.
Steve880 the right to use Meet Now or schedule their own meeting is controlled by a Meeting Policy in Teams Admin. You can create your own or there is an existing policy called 'Student' that' already set with the policy to prevent students scheduling meetings.
There are lots of great documentation, guides, video and training available to use Teams in education, here's the article on setting these policies https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/policy-packages-edu
