Automated muting of students in Teams meetings

[ifillingham]

Hi there,

 

Can anyone help? I'm trying to see if it is possible to automatically mute all participants (i.e. students) when they enter a meeting in in Microsoft Teams. Teachers have the ability to allow students to unmute themselves from within the meeting via the participants tab and muting/unmuting can be changed from the "meet options" settings but I wanted something that could be centrally set using policies or Power Shell.

 

What I would like is a policy setting that defaults to setting all students to muted, does not allow them to unmute upon entering but the teacher still retains control over of students can unmute themselves. We have numerous staff who are more reluctant than others when attempting a live lesson and I want to provide a standard set of settings so essentially all the teacher needs to do is schedule the meet then go.

 

I hope you are all keeping safe!

Best wishes,

Ian

[gabororsi]

The teacher who makes the meeting can do.

After he/she made the meeting needs to go back to the meeting and in the meeting options there is a row: Allow attendees to unmute

Change it to NO.

When a student want to talk he/she needs to raise hand and the teacher can unmute.

[TechMonkey]

When a student want to talk he/she needs to raise hand and the teacher can unmute.

Just to clarify, the teacher cannot unmute. They can set the pupil to be allowed to unmute and then the pupil can unmute themselves. No VC system allows, or should allow, someone to unmute someone else. It is a major privacy thing.