Teams Muted Chat

[petben]

Hello, there is a lot of questions over Teams chat. From what I've found the policies 'disable chat' prevent chat in the channel. You can not prevent chat in a meeting. But just the last weeks a few staff have complained about their classes having the mute message below in the meeting chat.

 

'You've been muted so you can't start a conversation'

 

The meeting is set to 'Anyone can post message' although even if set to 'Owner only' this doesn't seem to make any difference..

 

Any ideas why students (sometimes) get this message?

 

[ajg]

The only way I know of to mute chat for a student in a meeting to get this message is by going to the Team in question, clicking 'Manage Team', then under 'Members and guests' you will see a tickbox called 'Mute students' where you can select all or individual students. I've found that if the student is already in the meeting though it only takes effect if they re-enter the meeting or click on something in Teams and then go back to the meeting screen.