It would be great if students could private message teachers, but NOT each other.
It would be great if students could private message teachers, but NOT each other.
Nick
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408 comments
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LunAAA! LOOK OUT!
commented
It would be useful if it could be on a timer like Christmas lights. When you are on a meeting, chatting anyone but the the people in your class is prohibited, but once you and your buddies are all free after their meetings, they can all chat and have fun! Kids who don't have phones use teams as the only way to talk to their friends, it would be a jerk move to take that away.
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ahmad ghibeh
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no i sometimes help some of my friends who dont know how to solve some questions and its important if i miss some subjects i ask them what we took
so keep it like this and dont change anything please
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Anonymous
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As a teacher, I want to have the ability to decide when students can chat with other or not. It would be helpful if in making that choice it did not impact if I, as their teacher, can chat with them as well. This should be a TEACHER choice not an IT choice.
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Kim Rogan
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As a teacher, I would like to have the ability to decide when I want students to be able to chat with one another and when I don't. This should be a TEACHER choice, NOT and IT choice!
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Anonymous
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As a teacher, I would like to have the ability to decide when I want students to be able to chat with one another and when I don't. This should be a TEACHER choice, NOT and IT choice!
I would also want students to be able to chat with teachers.
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Bobby K
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Any updates for this. Our teachers are requesting it.
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Nestor
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Hi is Nestor. This is very appropriate and a great idea. Please update your status and give us more features as soon as possible. Lots of changes NEEDED.
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Tim Lawrence
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Our judgement is that allowing students to use the chat function with each other privately brings with it too many issues, including safeguarding concerns. Yes, they can chat on social media anyway, but only with peers they already have contacts with. Opening up private, unmonitored chat across our large school, on a school-owned platform, is a step too far! However the ability for students and teachers to private chat with each other is really useful and we have missed this since turning the chat off for all students.
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kkuba
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students should be able to talk together to work on projects in group calls in private chats but I feel like removing it will make it harder for students to understand and get better ideas when working together so maybe it should be that students private chats can be accessed by teachers or can be monitored by teachers or the it staff
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Anonymous
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I have a student absent today....it would be so helpful to be able to have a chat window open to help him with our computer technology project today....the entire class doesn't need to see the conversation!!! Instead I'm having to email with him and it's just not as helpful or useful or convenient!
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Anonymous
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Mostly during exams. Having a discussion can be useful for homework management, and if it is completely blocked, students will simply develop other communication tools and be comfortable using them all the time anyways (ex: phone or facebook messaging)
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Alexandre Sadunishvili
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NO!!! Do not take chat from us, which we find very useful, I help some of my classmates with some subjects, so with chat, we can do everything in one place.
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Anonymous
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Sehr wichtig für de Schule
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coconut
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no i strongly disagree students need time to socialize if they cant socialize the become sad which will lead to depression you can see during these nine months my kids have been using teams chat to talk to their friends and their behavior remained normal but at some point like for a month I banned then which led to them becoming more unruly
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Natalie
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Along the same lines we would like to allow teachers to make private calls to students but not allow students to call each other or to call teachers. Right now when the Calling Policy is off, students can neither make nor receive calls. It would be great if you could set that to allow receipt of calls but block the instigation of calls and then allow teachers to make and receive calls. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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This is desperately needed!
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Anonymous
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This should be included as a simple chat with group permissions one way or both ways
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Dave Drahovsky
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Please give us the ability to private chat with students.....ADMIN has turned off all or our private chat capabilities, so now there is no participation in my class. Please, give us the ability to private chat with students, but do not allow students to chat with each other.
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Anonymous
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CLARIFICATION NEEDED: IT WOULD BE BEST IF STUDENTS DID NOT HAVE THE PERMISSION TO PRIVATELY CHAT WITH EACH OTHER DURING A MEETING THAT I AM THE OWNER OF. OTHERWISE WHAT IS THE POINT IF THEY CHAT WITH EACH OTHER WHILE I AM PRESENTING THE LESSON. IN A REAL CLASS WE CAN SEE STUDENTS CHATTING AND GIVE THEM WARNINGS!. HERE WE CANNOT !!!
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Nathan
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This feature would be great. We recently developed a power app with a flow to congratulate students inside of Teams then realised that students couldn't receive the notification.