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NICRU
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Apr 30, 2020

Preventing attendees from starting meeting before organiser

Is there a way to prevent invited attendees from starting the Teams meeting before the organiser starts the meeting? My students are able to start the meeting early without me being there but I'd lik...
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    Deleted
    Aug 06, 2020

    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

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Steve880
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Oct 22, 2020

MDPtusd 

 

I makes the adjustments under "manage channel" in your channel "..."

 

Turn Moderation to "on"....and set so only the moderator can start a new post...this will prevent 99% of unauthorized meetings.

 

If you also unclick the "Allow members to reply to channel messages" box, then it will prevent ALL of them.  You just need to go back and click this box once you start your meeting so the kids can post in the conversation window.

 

I don't know if this is the best way to make all this happen...its just what I do that seems to work.

 

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MDPtusd
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Oct 22, 2020
It didn't work. I think it is something the district has to change and I doubt it will happen any time soon. 😞
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    Steve880
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    Oct 22, 2020

    MDPtusd  Is it a channel you created?  Or the "general" channel that Teams starts you with?

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      MDPtusd
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      Oct 22, 2020
      It's one I created.
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        Steve880
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        Oct 22, 2020

        MDPtusd   Yeah, then it could be settings that your IT dept. has to manage.  We have had to work with our IT to get several of the global settings changed...just in time for us to go back to full school and NOT be using Teams for meetings anymore.  LOL.

         

        Have a great school year!  (in spite of Teams limitations!)

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