Forum Discussion
the students start the meeting even before the scheduled time. only presenter should start it.
- Currently it is not possible to stop them from joining the meeting early. It is like they meet outside of the classroom and talk before you open up the classroom.
But Microsoft is working on a feature that will force everyone to wait in the lobby until a presenter opens up the meeting and admit lobby users to join. This comes from a uservoice request that you can vote for to make this feature come faster.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38309602--no-one-choice-in-the-lobby
I am using Teams with my students. I set up a meeting in Teams for a specific time. I changed the settings for the lobby to "only me." I had 3 students starting the meeting before I joined. Do you have any advice or maybe something I missed in the settings?
Hello NatalieO Are the students still set as presenters instead of attendees?
Here's another video to review on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dooaJNiSarc
ThereseSolimeno Are you saying that if you set the bypass lobby option to "Only me," but allow students to be presenters, this overrides the lobby setting and lets students join whenever they want anyway? The video you posted was helpful, but when he talks about the presenter setting, he says it's unrelated to the lobby setting.
I personally want to restrict anyone from entering the meeting before me, but I do want to give those I admit the ability to present (and would prefer to have these settings in place before the meeting begins, rather than having to change it once it's begun). However, if I have to, I will change the presenter permissions in real-time, as shown under "During a meeting" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019.
Meg73 If you set Lobby to "Only me" it should be only you even if students are presenters.
Do you create a new meeting each time or have you reused meetings? Can you repeat this error?
