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Settings for students
Can someone advise me what the best setting are to allow students to have when enabling Teams for the first time?
Don't allow them to chat, and don't allow them to set up channels. These were the most requested controls by teachers when we started using Teams.
I use channels as subgroups because my students work in groups for the year, initially we gave students global permission to private message but have since turned this off, they can still post in conversations in the Team general conversations and the different channels and they use @ to alert someone if the message if for a particular person. Also have permission to delete and edit their messages.
Thanks Naomi Chapman when your IT department turned on Teams, did they change any settings as the Admin. My IT admin team are worried before we turn it on.
Natalie Williams initially no, we tested it with full permissions, but we have since turned off private chat via Admin. We've run it with private chat disable for 4 months and no complaints as yet. It is easy for students to use @nametag to alert someone to a conversation.