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Microsoft Teams: Muting All The Participants Without Allowing Them To Unmute
Dear All,
Is there any option in Microsoft Teams to mute all the participants without allowing them to unmute back? I mean, Is there is any option for the speaker to mute all the students, and then unmute them back when I want them to speak?
Thanks again!
- Hi joef1665
Live events are one to many broadcasts. Like a TED Talk or a lecture: you can read more here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/what-are-teams-live-events
Only the presenter can speak, but attendees can Q&A.
You would need A3/A5 licencing to set it up. Pros - no noise, no interruptions, can have large amounts of attendees. Downside, less interaction, harder to setup. In a classroom format I would go with better policing rather than a Live event - as a former secondary school teacher I would have an assistant/LSA to be muting anyone whilst I am talking. That's how Microsoft do it today whilst they develop the appropriate features
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
- Hi joef1665
See here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/stopping-participants-from-unmuting-themselves/m-p/1235386
Currently, you can't. Whilst Microsoft have made improvements such as joining the meeting muted, and being able to mute someone, Members of Teams meetings can unmute at any time. Policing is therefore needed. There are multiple uservoices for it including this:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/36709033-mute
I would recommend voting to push it up the agenda. Microsoft are very aware of this requirement, and with the development of muting whilst joining I would imagine you may see it on the roadmap relatively soon in the future. Microsoft is also working on other classroom style virtual functionality such as raise hand
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35262385-add-a-raise-your-hand...
You could look at potentially using Live Events in Teams to do this, which are like Ted talks where one person talks and the attendees do Q&A - however, it's not what you need. As a former teacher in secondary I know you need the default to be muted then you unmute either individuals or to the audience as required
As said I believe this will come soon, but not soon enough for Covid-19 which is here now
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris- To those on this thread:
As a teacher as well I agree and desperately want this option please!
The voting Christopher showed us is closed. I did some searching and didn't see a post to get upvoted for a universal presenter mute option. So I created my own! See below. Share it, get it voted. Let's get this option developed ASAP so we can best serve our students during this time!
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40130068-two-mute-capability-universal-presenter-mute-and - This function is easy in ZOOM, but difficult in MS Teams.
Anh_Hien_Nguyen It is not only difficult, it is non-existent.
Right now my students in Teams are able to mute each other and even mute me. Is there a function to turn off the abilities for students to mute each other? I can see this as a really big problem in the future. Or if it notified me who was trying to mute someone else, I could deal with it that way. But as it is right now, I have some crafty students muting people who are speaking and it is turning into a "who done it?" scenario. ChrisHoardMVP
- In einer meiner Klassen ist das auch ein riesen Problem. Ich fände es auch sehr sinnvoll, wenn die Lehrperson eine Art Logbuch zur Hand hätte, in dem sie nachlesen kann, wer wen stumm geschalten hat. Das Logbuch wäre auch sinnvoll für eine Anwesenheitskontrolle.
This Feedback has more of a following and is still open. Please give it a vote if it's something you'd like implemented.
edit: I didn't see this feedback already shared above by the creator no less. please upvote them and their post.
- I have voted too - there are similar ones around on Uservoice. Microsoft are definitely aware of this but more than that I can't say at this time
Best, ChrisChrisHoardMVP As a meeting organizer, if I start the meeting and click the Mute All button, will that Mute everyone who joins, even those who join after I click? Or will it only Mute those who are already in the meeting? Thank you!
A new feature is being rolled out now that allows the meeting organiser or presenter roles to stop all users with the Attendee role from unmuting themselves
As the meeting organiser or presenter when in your Teams meeting select the Participants icon and then more actions (...) and you will now see a new option 'Don't allow attendees to unmute'. Just toggle this on or off.
DeletedThank you, I hope that is not their solution for everyone. In my case, that is not what we are trying to curtail. I am trying to curtail the typing in the chat box of the meet now, not them talking. I want them to be able to talk, just not type in the chat without my permission.
Before I could use the mute settings in teams and it stopped them from typing in the POST of a channel and also the chat of a meeting, but did NOT mute their mics.
Dear
you can do that using the mute option in the Teams members tab
if you select the mute button the students would not be able to access the chat feature and if you want them to do so simple uncheck the option in front of the student you want to access the chat.
You can enable and disable the chat completely from the messaging policy as well in Admin console.
... and if there isn't, it would be grately appreciated! When I am in conference with my 21 adult students, there is a constant background noise from their children now staying at home. When I mute them all, it's about 20 seconds before the background noise is back, and however much I ask them to mute themselves, it does not help ...
MS Teams New Update: How to Stop participants from Unmuting themselves in MS Teams in Microsoft Teams
MS Teams New Update: How to Stop participants from Unmuting themselves in MS Teams in Microsoft Teams
Hi All;
I found a work around that might be helpful at this time!
Once you create the meeting on teams and start it.. in the participants tab, you can find ... (three dots) to have more options, choose manage options, choose "who can present" and change to Me only and save.
then go back to the meeting and choose the three dots again and choose " don't allow others to unmute" by this no one can interrupt you.
Then to allow them again to participate, you need to make it reverse:
Go back to options and choose "who can present" to everyone and save.
then any one can unmute himself again.
Good luck.
