Hello, I am a middle school technology teacher who just recently had to make the switch back to remote learning with my district. We are using Teams as a means to teach classes with our students and so far it has been fantastic. I know that breakout rooms have been recently introduced to the Teams platform, but my district has banned us from using them because we need to be able to monitor every breakout room to avoid bullying, off topic conversations, etc.
Here's my idea: What if the teacher of the course could create breakout rooms for students (and students would be automatically launched into these rooms so they don't have try to find it on their own), then perhaps the teacher can be put into a page that monitors and listens in on all of the breakout rooms and teachers are given a kind of switcher board that we can use to adjust the volume from the different breakout rooms so that we can have an ear on all of them but have the ability to focus in on specific ones when we need to. I would love to see this in action, please let me know if you need more specifics as I have a very good idea of what this should look like from a teacher's perspective.
Thank you all for being awesome and helping us through such a unique time!
