Microsoft Teams - Anyone using in a school environment?

[maxrebo]

Just setting teams up myself, going through all the policies...does anyone know how long the policies take to apply?

Is it a case of Log out then Log in?

[MartinT]

They can take a while, depending on the Azure workload.

 

Even adding myself as an owner to a Team so that I can bulk move files can take 1-2 hours.

[maxrebo]

I need to hide the "Chat" tab on the menu on the left - could someone tell me which policy it comes under (ive disabled it in the "Messaging Policy" but it still shows.

As it stands they can message all staff, which wouldn't go down well!

[robyholmes]

I need to hide the "Chat" tab on the menu on the left - could someone tell me which policy it comes under (ive disabled it in the "Messaging Policy" but it still shows.

As it stands they can message all staff, which wouldn't go down well!

 

Messaging Policy is correct and disabling 'Chat' in that policy. However have you don this on the global policy or a student one. If a student one make sure its applied to students as by default the 'EduStudent' policy Microsoft creates isn't. I created my own policy and applied that to students.

[maxrebo]

Messaging Policy is correct and disabling 'Chat' in that policy. However have you don this on the global policy or a student one. If a student one make sure its applied to students as by default the 'EduStudent' policy Microsoft creates isn't. I created my own policy and applied that to students.

thanks yes ive just found it

 

On another note - how do you go about hiding teachers names and email addresses? I guess this is pulled from AD/Office 365 so it would mean changing in there? or is there another way in Teams where you can do an alias?

[robyholmes]

thanks yes ive just found it

 

On another note - how do you go about hiding teachers names and email addresses? I guess this is pulled from AD/Office 365 so it would mean changing in there? or is there another way in Teams where you can do an alias?

 

What do you have in your 'Display Name' for your staff? We use Mr J Bloggs for example so students (and staff) see this in teams.

[maxrebo]

What do you have in your 'Display Name' for your staff? We use Mr J Bloggs for example so students (and staff) see this in teams.

Full name - I thought it might be coming from here, i will change this I think.

 

Any way of hiding their email address?

[butlerad]

I need to hide the "Chat" tab on the menu on the left - could someone tell me which policy it comes under (ive disabled it in the "Messaging Policy" but it still shows.

As it stands they can message all staff, which wouldn't go down well!

 

 

Max as well as disabling chat you can remove the Chat icon from the right hand side under Team Apps > Setup Polices

 

Create a new policy for your students and remove the chat app out of it.

[RobFuller]

When applying policies, can you apply to a group or do you have to apply to individual users? I know can be done en-mass but I want to avoid repeatedly applying the setting to new students and applying to the group would make this automatic. Interested to know how others are doing it. Thanks

[MartinT]

Teams is our key pandemic remote teaching solution and I have been doing training, helping departments with trial video calls, making student helpsheets etc. We're just about ready but giving IT support from home will be somewhat novel. We're watching the news and waiting.

[Gongalong]

I was expecting a Class type team to automatically set student chat to be moderated as per this link, but I've tested with a student account and can seemingly chat freely in a Class team: "Teachers moderate student conversations and who can post where." https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/choose-a-team-type-to-collaborate-in-microsoft-teams-0a971053-d640-4555-9fd7-f785c2b99e67

 

Can you set moderation via a messaging policy? Although I'm not sure teaching staff will want to moderate every bit of chat in a team, and we're being up front with student that they need to abide by the acceptable use policy.

[MartinT]

I think education is always better than enforcement. We have just done the basics to prevent students from creating Teams.

[Gongalong]

Could you do that through a policy in the admin center, or does it need to be via PowerShell?

[Gongalong]

Found it. PowerShell, but straightforward to do https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide

 

Trying to disable Calls now. I seem to have disabled everything in the global Calling policy, but it's still enabled for the moment...

[Ditto]

Found it. PowerShell, but straightforward to do https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide

 

Trying to disable Calls now. I seem to have disabled everything in the global Calling policy, but it's still enabled for the moment...

Is it the case PowerShell is the 'only' way? I'd always thought of PS as a useful tool to help in many ways, especially with automated tasks, but it doesn't feel right if it's the sole means of implementing a policy.

[Gongalong]

It does appear to be the only way.

 

The Teams Admin Centre is also rubbish for making mass user changes. Seems to be targeted at just the odd user change here and there, so presumably they then expect us all to be PowerShell experts...

 

Calls has now disabled for me. A waiting game.

[MartinT]

Using the Teams Admin Centre you can only apply the policy to (I think) 20 or 25 users at a time. Very annoying.

[3s-gtech]

The Teams Admin Centre appears to be designed for:

Form over function

Changing settings one user at a time

Staring perplexed at the screen as to why they did it that way.

 

It still beats the old SfB admin centre, which is slightly more advanced than the MFA admin centre.

 

These things will improve in time and with feedback!

[robyholmes]

Using the Teams Admin Centre you can only apply the policy to (I think) 20 or 25 users at a time. Very annoying.

If you use the select all feature it selects 20, however if you then pick 30 more making it 50 it'll apply policies.

[theadmin]

Moderator note. This post OKed by @elsiegee40

 

 

Hi,

I am really sorry to do this, but the main forum discussiong coronavirus is only avaliable to people who can access the red door forum.

I need to post twice to be able to enter.

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Once again, apologies

Edited March 15, 2020 by elsiegee40