Forum Discussion
Unmute participants as the meeting organizer.
Mrs_Leach Hello Megan, this is coming!
Microsoft Teams: Hard audio mute
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=66575
Hard mute students audio in a meeting (so they cannot unmute themselves)
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39949276-hard-mute-students-audio-in-a-meeting-so-they-can
As a special education teacher I work with students who have multiple disabilities. It would be nice to be able to unmute the participants as a group. Currently after teaching a lesson I need to call individual homes to have another person come and unmute my students who are unable to physically unmute themselves. I understand the original reason for not allowing the unmute all as an option but as this platform becomes a more integral part of teaching it would be nice to have different options. Like the raise your hand option is great but again is limited to those who have physical disabilities. DaveChomi
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40053280-unmuting-a-student
dietcokecrazyI agree. I am virtually teaching Kindergarten-5th grade severe and profound students. It is impossible for them to unmute themselves, but the often need muted so the rest of the class can't hear what is going on in the home. This is a huge hindrance to my teaching as muting is basically not an option. I would think this is a similar concern for many early elementary teachers.
It is a concern and Microsoft Teams does not seem to care about how smoothly early childhood teachers can facilitate a lesson
I assure you, williamkuehnle that this is a priority along with the numerous other features/fixes that customers have requested. I urge you to vote on the Uservoice items: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39949276-hard-mute-students-audio-in-a-meeting-so-they-can
Mrs_Leach Hello Megan, this is coming!
Microsoft Teams: Hard audio mute
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=66575
Hard mute students audio in a meeting (so they cannot unmute themselves)
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39949276-hard-mute-students-audio-in-a-meeting-so-they-can
It is not not about a hard mute, teachers need to be able unmute and mute their students. ChristianBergstrom
I do not know why this is taking so long. I have tweeted, posted here, sent emails, and is increasingly frustrating to have Microsoft Teams not be there to support teachers.
dietcokecrazyI agree!! I am a SPED educator as well and I am running into this problem daily!! I almost want to use ZOOM now because muting and unmuting participants is so quick and easy on ZOOM. I already taught my parents to get on Teams, but may have to also teach them to use ZOOM as muting/unmuting is very important when teaching our SPED population.
Hello all:
Whenever there is a feature that you'd like to see added to Teams, please enter that request on the Uservoice feedback forum at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/, where others can vote on it as well. The more votes a suggestion gets, the more attention it will get from engineering (assuming it's feasible). You can also track its progress from there as well. Thank you for being active members of the Teams community.
ThereseSolimeno Even we think this can enabled for schools and colleges.
Same issue here dietcokecrazy . Also representing providers of a disabled population, unmuting is critical to providing services.
Would a one-time consent each session be an outrageous idea?
We work with dementia patients and they are unable to unmute themselves. We need to be able to mute and unmute them when needed. Can you please add this feature?
