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Because of Corona the school uses Teams meetings.
During the meetings Students can mute the Mic of the Teacher.
Beside of that Students can take over a Powerpoint presentation.
We have assigned the students policy package to a test student. That doesn't work.
How can we prevent students muting teachers Mic and how can we prevent students taking over Powerpoint presentation?
Update: Teachers can change the students from presentators to attendees during the session. That does the trick
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Hi Laurens,
Yes, the teachers can change the role of the meeting participants to restrict their capability.
If you have any further questions on this issue, feel free to share with us.
Regards,
Marvin
Hello,
Still there is a problem in a what you replied. Yesterday I was in class with 10 plus students and one of them discovered he or she was able to mute my microphone. I warned them if it would happen again, I would stop teaching them. Today they started muting each other in the middle of class while a student was asking a genuine question. And one of the students discovered that it was possible to kick students out.
Microsoft Teams is for companies and lets say, grown ups. But the possibility for students to mute and kick out each other should not be possible, as it is impossible in the classroom and stops students for asking questions or speaking their mind.
So please, change Microsoft Teams so it is also possible to be used as a tool to teach. Offcourse i can change roles, but we do not have te time for this. Only the organizer should be able to mute and kickout, and please not the students in anonimity. Students are being bullied by this, and bullying helps no-one, espacially if we can nog see it
Hafid
Hi HafidYACHOU,
Thank you for your feedback. I understand it could be inconvenience for organizer to change every students' roles in a meeting. And I also agree with you. However currently Teams doesn't have such feature to set students as the role of attendee in the meeting by default. If you don't want students to have mute/force quit permissions, you need to manually change the roles in meeting options.
In this scenario, we suppose you to feedback this issue in our Teams UserVoice website. And several users have suggested this issue to our development team. You can also vote for the following ideas. We sincerely appreciate for your kind understanding.
Regards,
Marvin
Hi, is there a way to change all students to attendees in one button rather than changing the role of each student one by one ? And is there a way to mute all of them for a specific time without having the possibility to unmute theirselves ?
Hi,
Found this that may help with students - they need to be attendees not presenters. If you schedule the meeting (a minute before) then you can set all as attendees in one go.
https://alicekeeler.com/2020/03/22/microsoft-teams-meeting-setting-students-as-attendees/
Raise a feature request though!
Jason