Teams - restricting chat between two students

[mark100]

Hi

 

Has anyone had a request to block chat between two students on Teams (safeguarding)? The only control I can find is to turn off chat altogether in the Teams policy for the two students, but this then affects their interaction with other students and teams in general.

 

Has anyone found a granular solution the would limit communication just between two users?

Edited January 21, 2021 by mark100

[mavhc]

Chat in a team, or Chat outside of a team?

[stm-tech]

Hi

 

Unfortunately you cant block chat between two pupils. What you can do is create a policy in Teams that disables CHAT, then add a security group that policy should apply to. However this blocks ALL chat for that pupil. They will just then switch to another wayto abuse. Like e-mail.

 

Rather than a policy or a switch, use education and disciplinary procedures against the abuser.

[mark100]

Chat in a team, or Chat outside of a team?

 

Would be both

[psydii]

It depends on circumstance. But perhaps if one of the students is onside they could mute the other?

[mavhc]

Would be both

 

Outside of a team, in the chat tab, it's just disable or enable. Inside a team it's per channel

[gabororsi]

There is a new settings in Teams now:

 

Sadly it's not visible for me, yet