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Meet button + Bypass the Lobby
In my educational org, we used Google Classroom + Meet last year. Google implemented a featured that had a unique Meet link that redirected the teacher and students to the same meeting automatically (without lobby), because they had email accounts in our domain.
This year, we decided to move to Microsoft Teams and I'm having a little issue. We want to use the "Meet" (we don't want to schedule the meeting, but start it right away) button in our teams, but everytime a student in our domain tries to join, it sends him/her to the lobby and this sucks, because I have classes with 30+ students and some of them always join late and distract the teacher, since it requires to manually approve everyone.
Example: A teacher starts his/her video lesson at 7:00 PM and then Student X asks to join at 7:01 PM. Student Y tries to join at 7:04 PM and then at 7:12, Student Z also asks to join.
Is there anyway I can disable the lobby and make everyone in our domain to automatically join the meeting, without having to schedule and setting the configuration to bypass the meeting?
I tried to start a meeting and then change the config to allow people to join automatically, but after ending it and clicking in the "Meet" button again, my previous config was lost and people had to ask to join again.
andref19 Hello, yes it's possible with the use of a Teams meeting policy. When you select Meet now it defaults to the configured settings in that policy. In other words your org. has set up different settings from what you're choosing. As this is a per-organizer policy you can reach out to your IT to see if they can set one up for you and then assign the policy to your user account.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams?WT.mc_id=TeamsAdminCenterCSH#automatically-admit-people
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andref19 Hello, yes it's possible with the use of a Teams meeting policy. When you select Meet now it defaults to the configured settings in that policy. In other words your org. has set up different settings from what you're choosing. As this is a per-organizer policy you can reach out to your IT to see if they can set one up for you and then assign the policy to your user account.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams?WT.mc_id=TeamsAdminCenterCSH#automatically-admit-people
- Thank you.
