Teams Meeting organizer can force mute audio/video for attendees
Give meeting organizers the ability to force mute audio/video for all attendees in the meeting options page. Attendees should not be able to un-mute their audio/video with this option set.
Joshua
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Based on your feedback, we have increased the priority for this feature. The feature team is working on this and are planning to release this quarter. Stay tuned for updates. Thanks.
95 comments
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Anthony
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It should also be possible to mute a specific attendee's video within a meeting.
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Neil Constant
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Is it possible if more then one presenter in room it only forces hard mute on participants so all presenters can still speak as maybe more then one.
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Neil Constant
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Is this quarter before end of June.?
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Merih Torun
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This will help a lot to controll the lessons as they speak at the same time and cause caos
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Anonymous
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Just mark them as attendess i learnt that
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John
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Presenters need to be able to unmute as well as mute attendees.
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Christian
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This is a huge issue with our district, especially with this and not being able to force mute their video too. We have situations where we are recording live lessons and per MA law, cannot have student videos on during that recording. It would be great to be able to force disable/mute both audio and video for attendees.
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Gaurav
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Without this feature teams app is useless for Educators.
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Anthony
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It would be great if this feature could be enabled for not only the meeting organizer but also all presenters.
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Sabal Ach
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Thanks Alex. Please speed up the development of this feature as this is becoming a must have feature for our school to make our classes controllable. We are being compelled to move to Zoom because of this one feature. So please roll out this ASAP.
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Anonymous
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Thank you. Need this function ASAP. I am a teacher and need to be able to force mute audio in particular.
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Anonymous
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Yes, please! While people in a business meeting may be responsible enough to mute/unmute themselves, that is not the case with children. I’d also like the ability to disable use of tools by students on the virtual whiteboard.
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Prathibha. D
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Much needed
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Anonymous
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Very much needed for current situation....
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Anonymous
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Yes but they can unmute themselves.
I even need to find out how can you create a chat within a chat even after the teacher mutes you. And how can you still us the video. Teams please help.
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ramya
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Please note that this feature request with many votes is also for the same feature
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40130068-two-mute-capability-universal-presenter-mute-and?page=4&per_page=20 -
ramya
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Kudos for a great product, MS teams.
As a school management, i feel the lack of this single feature (hardmute) will scare away all schools from MS Teams and back to zoom. Definitelt in India and from what I see in this thread from schools around the world. Its important to note that for many teachers zoom meetings was their first experience - where they had a hard mute option. So the moment they do not find the mute all button, it frustrates them and some educators also loose the confidence because of this. In large classroom, policing NEVER WORKS. And in India its mostly large classrooms.This drives them back to using zoom. It is very difficult as a school administrator to motivate teachers to stay on MS Teams. I am really worried about this. I have already gotten requests from one section of my school that they want to stay on zoom.
This is a deal breaker for all schools! Unless implemented quickly I do not sew teachers staying on it.
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Christian
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Please this is a feature we must have for educators, teacher can't procede with interruptions from attendees, leading to re-schedule the class to try again.
Also an option to "force mute all" even before beginning the meeting is required.
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Anonymous
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I need to be able to control my students' audio so I can both mute or un-mute their mic.
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Anonymous
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agree. nice to have