Meeting Settings

PaigeFarrell Just a quick reply from my experience. Perhaps others will still pitch in.

• Is there a way to control who can start a scheduled meeting?
  From my experience - No. The work around is to set up the meeting just before you are about to start, not long before. Ms Teams was built for the corporate environment and still needs a lot of polishing for the school environment. What is also a bit scary is this power in the hands of students - because they can set up their own meetings. The calling policy is separate from the messaging policy. They can have one on one or group calls. This can also be switched off - but then you lose the ability to have live meetings with them, and or sharing your desktop to demonstrate something.
• Is there a way to block people from using the chat feature unless you allow it?
  Again from my (limited) experience. We blocked individual chatting. There is a messaging policy that you can set for that. That does not block the learners from responding in the posts area of a channel in a team. To manage that, you can either mute the learners in the team. You can mute them all or individually. That mutes them across the team in all the channels. Further you can individually manage channels by setting moderation to on. (See Manage Channel Moderation) You can also set individual posts to whether everyone can reply or only you and other moderators. Unfortunately there is no way at present to switch off emojis. You can switch off Giffs.