Forum Discussion
Unmute participants as the meeting organizer.
- Sep 11, 2020
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
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.
- ThereseSolimenoJun 12, 2020Former Employee
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.
- diskompallyJun 15, 2020Copper Contributor
ThereseSolimeno Even we think this can enabled for schools and colleges.