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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
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.
anupamkumar No I can't, that's the reason I posted the original thread. That adjustment used to work to stop them from being able to type in the conversation of a Meet Now AND in the POST section of a channel, but doesn't anymore.
What we really all want is a switch on the Meet Now sidebar with the following options to organizers:
- allow all to present (on/off)
- mute all mics (on/off)
- allow all to use Conversation box (on/off)
within each attendee when you right-click
- make presenter
- hard mute/unmute
- remove from meeting
- warn of behavior message
