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Disable Chat Messaging in Teams Meeting
Hi all,
We've been having issues with students misusing the chat section during remote learning (Teams Meeting).
It would be great to have the ability to disallow chat in meetings either during the meeting setup, or in the admin portal.
Regards
Dan
You can disable chat for users in a Meeting policy, this will stop them from chatting in all meetings. Set MeetingChatEnabledType to Disabled using powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-psYou can't disable meeting chats per meeting, but there is an uservoice requesting this. You can vote for it here:
This appeared in our tenant today; however, In meeting doesn't seem to work like it's worded, when it's set to this, only the Organizer can chat, but no presenters or attendees. BUT it does mean that it can be disabled to stop chat after the meeting is done.
bryanm-imh Hey can I ask where you found those settings? I see similar ones but not those exact ones. Thanks
NVM I found it. Is there a way to set the defaults for those meeting options?
Microsoft is rolling out chat moderation settings which allows an organizer of meeting to manage participant’s ability to chat prior to, during and after a meeting.
If you select In-meeting only, participants can send message during the meeting only and the organizer can send messages all the time (after meeting as well).
Check this article for more information: How to disable chat in Microsoft Teams meeting
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All: one of our MVPs just wrote this blog - thought I'd share: How to Disable Chat in Microsoft Teams Meeting + “hardening” the meeting with Meeting Options – Vesa Nopanen – My Teams & Microsoft 365 Day (myteamsday.com)
You can mute all students or individual students and they won't be able to post in the chat during meetings. Meetings have to be hosted on a team channel.
- TechTeachTyner when you mute the pupils this way does this disable the chat. When I say chat, I am referring to the conversation that they can have when the lesson/meeting is running.
What are the different ways to mute them from talking and stop them chatting whilst lesson is running.
Thanks- Muting students in the Team prevents them from posting on a channel and typing in a meeting chat that is hosted in the Team channel. Students who are muted in the Team can still unmute in a meeting and speak, but can't type. The teacher can mute or hard mute a student in a meeting to restrict speaking.
TechTeachTyner Can muted students still raise their hands?
TechTeachTyner I have always done what you said and muted the students and that fixed it. However, no matter what setting I have on now, it appears as if they can chat whether I want them to or not. Did something change in the last week or so?
goodtimo ,
Are you still hosting the meeting in the channel? Organizations have admin rights to edit meeting settings too, so it may be that. Also hard mute is a new setting that is being rolled out.
I found this:
It’s going to be under messaging policies now under the newish Teams Admin center. You can apply policies to students and then chat off there in that policy.
You can disable chat for users in a Meeting policy, this will stop them from chatting in all meetings. Set MeetingChatEnabledType to Disabled using powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-psYou can't disable meeting chats per meeting, but there is an uservoice requesting this. You can vote for it here:
I have policy set where 'Allow chat in meetings' is set to disabled in meetings policies. I have tried changing the policy settings both through the Teams Admin Center and powershell. Students are still able to chat during meetings and also reply to the meeting chat after meetings have ended. I have found that the 'mute' option in the manage team setting prevents students from being able to do those, but it also leaves an option to attempt to resend/retry when the 'mute' option is disabled.
Are there any thoughts on why the centralised meetings policy in the Teams Admin Center isn't working for this particular setting? Is the setting bugged? Will there be a fix? I'm just trying every avenue I can.
alice1832 I might be a bit late on this for you. I tested raising hands with a muted student and they were still able to raise their hand during meetings. I hope that is helpful.
I would also like to confirm that we are seeing the same experience as LPackham. The Allow chat in meetings option in the Teams admin centre is still allowing students to chat in meetings. Please could you let us know if this gets addressed.
- Hi Linus,
Perfect, thank you
Dan
