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
DaveChomi I understand the teachers wanting to unmute the students who may have a problem unmuting but as a parent I feel this is an invasion of privacy. If you were to incorporate this feature maybe you can make it an option to allow the host to unmute you just like its asks you to show video or mute yourself before joining the meeting. That way the parents can allow this or not.
As a Kindergarten teacher, it would be very helpful to be able to unmute a student. When I ask a student a question, they may not know how to unmute or may not think to unmute before speaking. They then don't want to repeat what was already said. Also, many of my students would unmute themselves right after I muted them. Not to say anything, mind you, but it was a distraction when there would be a lot of background noise. It would be helpful for teachers to have more control over muting and unmuting.
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
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:
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DaveChomi it makes sense as you said for people but for GW interop it is an issue, at least for Bluejeans it doesn't work (option *4). Does anybody has unmute working on the GW interop?
- Yes sure. I did. For BJ gateway it was #4 as I described. Being the BJ participant and being muted you will get notification about the feature code that will make you again unmuted. Try it 😉
