Prevent users from messaging

Question

I am an educator using Teams to teach distance learning. I wanted to know if there is a way to prevent users from sending messages to other users? 

For example, blocking a user(student) who has been invited to join a Team, from starting a chat with another user (student). Only the Owner would be able to message other users, or get a message from any user. 

Is something like this possible? Thank you!

Answer 1

I will try to give you the direct link to go to there, you will need the admin account to do this.

https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/meet...

Answer 2

Im still not quite understanding what steps to follow to turn this off. I wemt to the page you sent, but I never found exactly what you tried fo refer me to.

Answer 3

Hi Pedro

Thanks for participating in Microsoft Community, I'm Skypper G. I'm Independent advisor, let me help you with this.

The thing you can do with MS Teams from the Admin Settings is disable the Meeting Chat within the Meeting Chat Policy

For Example, if you change the default meeting policy to disable the chat feature, that means it will affected to all users; meetings between teachers or meetings between students will be affected on the same way.

There is not option to be controlled by the meeting Organizer

If you want to get more info and how you can do this please see the link below:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams...