Teams - students able to mute and kick others

[jblackburnHWGA]

I'm getting reports from staff of students being able to do the following in a team meeting

 

Students muting staff during the lesson

And

Students are kicking other students out of the lesson

 

We're using sds to build the groups. Staff are creating the teams using the new suggested team button so the team is being made correctly.

I've created various policies and applied them to the students with a script

 

I'm going to test this during the week as a test account in a few teams.

 

Wondering if anyone had experienced the same issues and what was done to resolve them.

 

Thanks

[Steve21]

Sounds more like user error when making a meeting if I'm honest Are you sure they're making them attendees and not presenters etc which is the default?

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019

 

All what you mention suggest that's the case

 

Many thanks,

Steve

[jblackburnHWGA]

Steve you may be right from the looks of it.

I'll have a dig through the guidance teachers have been given on arranging the meeting. I dont remember seeing this on said guide. As far as I can remember they're just setting the meeting for a time and date and putting it as the team name rather than using attendees

[Liam]

Steve you may be right from the looks of it.

I'll have a dig through the guidance teachers have been given on arranging the meeting. I dont remember seeing this on said guide. As far as I can remember they're just setting the meeting for a time and date and putting it as the team name rather than using attendees

Having similar issues with them recording lessons.

Do you have a guide did for teachers did you say?

[jblackburnHWGA]

The ability to record or not is set in the teams policies. You need to disable it then its greyed out

[Steve21]

Steve you may be right from the looks of it.

I'll have a dig through the guidance teachers have been given on arranging the meeting. I dont remember seeing this on said guide. As far as I can remember they're just setting the meeting for a time and date and putting it as the team name rather than using attendees

 

Yep it's a silly setting, you can't actually change it until the meeting is set. You then need to go back into the meeting and modify the meeting options so "only me" is presenter etc (or other teachers blah blah)

 

Think there are ways to force it org wise, but by default it's not like that

 

Steve

[Liam]

Apparently today a random person joined a live lesson. I assume this is cause everyone are presenters and a kid invited someone else.? Anyone experienced this?

[Steve21]

Could be a number of things really. Did the organiser share a link to join (rather than direct invites) and someone passed it on?

 

If so anyone can join using the link as a guest without being invited directly (You can test it easily, create a meeting, add someone into it with you, and go to copy the link. In another random computer/browser, open said link and it'll be a guest login

 

Steve

[Liam]

Could be a number of things really. Did the organiser share a link to join (rather than direct invites) and someone passed it on?

 

If so anyone can join using the link as a guest without being invited directly (You can test it easily, create a meeting, add someone into it with you, and go to copy the link. In another random computer/browser, open said link and it'll be a guest login

 

Steve

This is my thoughts. It would seem that's the case indeed

Il check later

[jblackburnHWGA]

There are things for ms to work on with teams.

We still get issues here and there but I'd say some of it is behaviour and should be treated a such.

We do have one thing though weve noticed this week as we have some staff off and students off. If a teacher has set a calendar entry for a lesson and we add a teacher to cover the lesson that teacher can't change the restrictions for the presentation.

Not a major problem but I think MS need to have a think about the meeting control parts. They could be better. Maybe a teams admin could override the meeting setting or something

Edited September 26, 2020 by jblackburnHWGA

[Steve21]

Thought you guys might be interested, I actually found the post I saw before about how to do this earlier while looking for something else.

 

https://teams.rocks/2020/05/19/students-as-meeting-attendees-by-default/

 

Steve

[Liam]

Thought you guys might be interested, I actually found the post I saw before about how to do this earlier while looking for something else.

 

https://teams.rocks/2020/05/19/students-as-meeting-attendees-by-default/

 

Steve

Legend.

Had mare this this this week. Have you done it already?

[jblackburnHWGA]

Looks promising!! Thanks

[SteveM555]

We've had the Default "who can present" set to Meeting Organizer by default for a while, had to set with Powershell as the option doesn't exist in the admin panel yet, works really well. Also carries over into the 'Meet now' button if someone want's to quickly start in a channel.

[jblackburnHWGA]

is this article just the control for these options?

 

[Liam]

is this article just the control for these options?

 

No it sets the organiser as presenter and anyone invited as attendees.

[jblackburnHWGA]

Perfect. All setup now so will just see how it goes thanks for the help

[lmrogers]

Morning,

 

I have applied the policy through Powershell and it works that all the users invited are attendees but it does not mute them by default and they are still able to unmute themselves. Have I missed something or is that how it's meant to be? I know you can hard mute them in the meeting but we need to make it default for our teachers.

 

Thanks,