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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 th...
- 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
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 ChrisHoardMVP I second (third?) the request to push "hard-muting" options in Teams. Today, we are using a Skype meeting to broadcast periodic in-house audio meetings to internal staff only. NOBODY gets to unmute themselves, and the only live mic is the presenter one (which is actually 50-mics mixed down and fed as a mic input to Skype).
We would like to re-create this scenario in Teams.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
I hope that my message gets to you. Actually, I hope that you quickly got this answered already. Students can make things difficult sometimes.
If you go to the meeting settings in Teams, after you have created the meeting and well before any students join the meeting. In the meeting settings, make yourself the only presenter. This will make them not able to mute others, including the teacher.
There is also a way for you to control who enters the meeting. This is achieved in the same settings screen that I mentioned above.
I hope this is helpful to someone. Let me know if you would like a deeper explanation or pictures.
hey I am a student and we were facing a similar problem.The solution to this is to make the students attendee.We can make them attendee by doing a right click on their name in participants and then make them an attendee.now if you are late due to any reason the children may fight for becoming a presenter and by default the setting is that the new joiners will be presenters. So in order to prevent the fight between students you can make only yourself a presenter. We can do that as after scheduling a meeting there is an option of editing the settings there you will see an option of meeting options on the bottom of the screen.by opening the link of meeting options scroll down and you will see an option of who can present.by clicking the dropdown in front that you will see options like specific people,only me,people in my organisation. Click anyone you want to and it is done.if you selct only me still you can make anyone presenter if you want to.
From Aryan Tapadia
Dear Help,
I am running a class and one student is muting other students on and off and also me at times. How can I stop this?
- For that you have set meeting policy in Microsoft Teams admin panel
- This function is easy in ZOOM, but difficult in MS Teams.
Anh_Hien_Nguyen, how is helping with the MS Teams issue?
Anandh-Rao schedule a meeting in the calendar, then go inside the meeting again to change meeting option.
You have now completed scheduling. When it's time for class, just go to your calendar and open the scheduled lesson and select "join" to start your lesson. And ask your students to do the same.
Do not click “meet now” or answering a call to start your lesson because you can not control your class. Always start by “join” in your calendar.
Anh_Hien_Nguyen It is not only difficult, it is non-existent.
- Hi Christopher,
Thank you so much for your prompt reply, I really appreciate it.
Regarding the Live Events, could you please give me more details?
Do you think it can be applied in classrooms? or what are the pro & cons of this option?
Sincerely,
JOE- 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, ChrisHi ChrisHoardMVP,
accordingly to this MS doc, the 'LIVE EVENT' feature is available to:- An Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, or E5 license or an Office 365 A3 or A5 license
- A Microsoft Teams license
- A Microsoft Stream license
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/teams-live-events/plan-for-teams-live-events
ChrisHoardMVP
Hi Christopher,Thank you so much for your prompt reply, I really appreciate it.
Regarding the Live Events, could you please give me more details?
Do you think it can be applied in classrooms? or what are the pro & cons of this option?
Sincerely,
JOE
