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J3SS
Aug 19, 2025Copper Contributor
HELP! I teach kindergarten..
Hi! Teams newbie here! We will be using Teams this upcoming school year for when we have a weather related day. The biggest thing that scares me is that they have access on the bottom part of their ...
VasilMichev
Aug 20, 2025MVP
The admins and the meeting organizer can control these settings. For your scenario, it's likely more appropriate to have such restrictions centrally configured by your IT staff, so talk to them. As the meeting organizer, you can also control some of these settings, via the Meeting options dialog. For example, this article guides you over how to disable mic and camera access for attendees: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-attendee-audio-and-video-permissions-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-f9db15e1-f46f-46da-95c6-34f9f39e671a
In the same dialog, you will find some additional settings that might be relevant to your scenario, such as disabling the chat and adjusting the meeting roles (for the mute issue).