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Grzegrzyk
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May 26, 2020
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Students chat privacy in Teams for education

Recently I heard that teachers in Teams app have access to private messages exchanged between students. Is it possible?
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    ChristianBergstrom
    May 27, 2020

    Grzegrzyk A private chat is a private chat. Now this is very easily explained, but as an admin for org/school/business you could configure settings to see almost everything. So technically yes, but then you would violate all kinds of regulations and policies and be entitled to legal actions and penalties.

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ChristianBergstrom
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May 27, 2020

Grzegrzyk A private chat is a private chat. Now this is very easily explained, but as an admin for org/school/business you could configure settings to see almost everything. So technically yes, but then you would violate all kinds of regulations and policies and be entitled to legal actions and penalties.

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jcormier
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Oct 06, 2020

As a teacher and the "owner: of the channel, how could I go about viewing chats between students?  Also is there a way to mute private chats without muting the student's ability to post on the general feed?ChristianBergstrom 

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    ChristianBergstrom
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    Oct 06, 2020
    Hello, start here. Excellent support page with guidance for Teams edu https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keeping-students-safe-while-using-teams-for-distance-learning-f00fa399-0473-4d31-ab72-644c137e11c8