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Where is disable private chat?
- It’s going to be under messaging policies now under the newish Teams Admin center. You can apply policies to students and then chat off there in that policy.
Info about messaging policies here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/messaging-policies-in-teams
You basically turn off the chat option.
levonclark that is the old admin center. The new one just has the Chat option under messaging policies. I am about to test it to see if it disables all chat or just private chat, as we still want students to be able to converse with each other through the conversations.
Chat is only private chat, but keep in mind, this will effect the ability to chat in Meetings as well. At least teh ability to go to your chat tab to participate in chat history / running chat of a meeting since you will not have a chat tab once turning this off.
Also when you set this, it will take some time to take effect, up to a few hours possibly.
This is so frustrating Chris. We want to be able to chat with our student privately and on the gen
eral page but we do not want pupils to chat amongst themselves as this is prone to abuse. What can we do?
laurash1937 One of our MVPs just posted this blog - thought I'd add it to the thread: How to Disable Chat in Microsoft Teams Meeting + “hardening” the meeting with Meeting Options – Vesa Nopanen – My Teams & Microsoft 365 Day (myteamsday.com)
Hey ChrisWebbTech, thanks for all of the helpful info your share in this forum!
Any word on whether individual meeting organizers will get the ability to control chat settings for their meetings? I'm trying to get teachers on board with using Teams versus Zoom for their remote teaching sessions with students, but they would very much like the ability to control chat for their classes on a group-by-group basis and potentially on the fly in a meeting if it is not going well.
Thanks,
Stuart
This is already kinda possible. If the classes are created in specific channels the Team Owner (Teacher) can set up moderation that limits who can chat, this is carried over into the meeting, as the chat there is really a conversation in the channel.
Hey StevenC365 , that's very helpful to know. I wasn't aware that the Meeting chat followed the moderation settings of the channel! It would allow teachers to schedule meetings in a channel and with moderation enabled to disable chat in their meetings, while still leaving the ability for students to post in another channel.
That being said, with moderation enabled and "Allow members to reply to channel messages", would this also carry over into the meeting, allowing students to respond to a chat message a teacher sends, but not create new messages on their own?
