Inviting Students to Join my Team

Question

I am setting up my Teams for the new school year. I can't figure out why 75 percent of my students have no problems logging in and seeing the Teams I added them to, but each class has a handful of students who are blocked and need my permission to join. I get a separate email for them, and I have to approve. I'm not sure why this isn't a standard setup since I control all of the district devices. Any advice?

Answer 1

@Katie Magyar

It sounds like you have enabled the "Guest Access" feature in Teams, which allows external users to join your Teams. When this feature is enabled, some users may need approval to join the Teams. To disable this feature and allow all users to join the Teams without approval, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to the Teams Admin Center.
2. Click on "Teams" in the left-hand menu.
3. Select the Team that you want to modify.
4. Click on "Settings" in the top menu.
5. Scroll down to "Guest Access" and toggle it off. If you don't want to disable Guest Access entirely, you can also modify the settings to allow certain domains or email addresses to join without approval.

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