Students deleting files

I have another issue I would like some feedback on. Logged in as a student, I was able to delete files from the Files Channel that were put there by the teacher (me) a few minutes earlier. And when t...

Dipak Boyed
Jun 08, 2020
MikeBrady : For student read-only files, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-folders-to-create-read-only-files-for-students-or-other-team-members-0e7791d7-8c9c-4749-9bca-984289477988 might be more appropriate.

The Files tab in general mirrors all Documents stored in the underlying SharePoint group site and creates separate folders for Files related to each channel. It was intended for collaboration scenarios and does not put any additional restrictions on who can edit/delete vs not.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-files-in-microsoft-teams-9b200289-dbac-4823-85bd-628a5c7bb0ae

ankit shukla

Iron Contributor

Jun 21, 2020

MikeBrady

Hi Mike,

You need to ensure, you set students as members and in Team settings, Member can delete files (should be unchecked ). The changes should reflect in 5-10 minutes, then post that test please and let me know, if it works.

Thanks

Ankit Shukla

MariusPretorius

Iron Contributor

Jul 02, 2020

ankit shukla

ankit shukla wrote:
Member can delete files (should be unchecked ).

Is this a new setting that is coming out? It is not available in my version. See below for my possible Teams settings for members. "Members can delete files" is not there. I'm using Microsoft Teams for Education, Desktop app.

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