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How to Assign the Co-Organizer Role to Microsoft Teams Meetings
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new co-organizer role for meetings. The role allows people to share the workload involved in managing complex meetings, like webinars. The role is optional and li...
Rae_Jay Hello, these are the details of the co-org role.
Co-organizers can do the following:
- Access and change meeting options
- Bypass the lobby
- Admit people from the lobby during a meeting
- Lock the meeting
- Present content
- Change another participant’s meeting role
- End the meeting for all
- Create & manage breakout rooms
To make co-organizers breakout room managers, you must first assign them the breakout room manager role.
Co-organizers cannot do the following:
Create & manage breakout rooms(updated, see above)- View & download attendance reports
- Manage the meeting recording
- Edit the meeting invitation
- Remove or change the Organizer role
This doesn't seem to work for me. I assign someone (a presenter) as a breakout room manager. I then assign them as a co-organiser, and they seem to disappear from their assigned role as a breakout room manager. Or is that how it is supposed to work, and I should trust that they have both permissions?
Secondly, if I am unwell or my laptop fails etc., no one can properly cover my role as organiser. I need a backup person who can cover all functions, including recording the meeting. As it is, if my laptop dies or my internet cuts out, the workshop cannot run properly.
Secondly, if I am unwell or my laptop fails etc., no one can properly cover my role as organiser. I need a backup person who can cover all functions, including recording the meeting. As it is, if my laptop dies or my internet cuts out, the workshop cannot run properly.
jackbrown1986 It looks like the co-organizer role finally includes management of breakout rooms. I wonder if the reason that your breakout room managers disappear when you make them co-organizers is due to this functionality.
I was unable to assign the breakout room presenter role to co-organizers, as I think the new function for co-organisers incorporates this now.
This post gives more recent info on the co-organizer role.