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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348 comments
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N.A.
commented
This is directed toward kids 10 and younger. You may not understand the need especially if you do not teach younger kids. But parents interrupt instruction to screenshot kids inappropriately chatting or asking if the teacher can intervene and make it stop is disruptive. This isn’t what the chat feature is for
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anthony hall
commented
I don't understand this? Surely you can't be trying to prevent students from having private conversations because this doesn't achieve that at all. Also I saw a comment mentioning this preventing bullying but I don't see how this would do that? It would surely just make bullying harder to discover considering the bullies would find methods other than teams.
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Nick Dresang
commented
What if instead of disabling chat, you made chat opt-in instead of opt-out? We have students who are chatting and some of it is constructive, but some isnt. If students could choose to participate in chat by opting-in, rather than muting and hiding a chat they don't want to be involved in, that would be more effective.
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IQNite Technologies
commented
No, it would not. We kids have got rights.
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Anonymous
commented
What this does do: Stop those who don't have social media from being involved with the group; stop group projects from happening effectively; is completely ignorant of the fact that many students are in multiple Teams, not all of which are purely academic.
What this doesn't do: stop students from messaging each other during lessons.
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Luna Arroyo
commented
best day
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N.A.
commented
Sure social media permits kids of all ages and adults to be disrespectful, however MS Teams for Education should permit teachers to at best monitor and disable chat messages between students that are 10 and under. Even if these minors have social media accounts and go back and forth on them that is not the discussion thread. This is only about TEAMS and what should be happening and what should not occur. No students should be threatened or bullied on an educational chat (esp minors). Look at the effects of bullying if you care to.
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Anonymous
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We are very much able to direct chat w/ our profs already and student 2 student chats and teams are highly useful for group projects. If you are talking about a safe online environment, you do not realize today's kids are all over social media and this would definitely not help a bit.
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N.A.
commented
Wow I just added this asking if teachers could disable student to student CHATS. No one understands especially in k-12 where this leads to bullying, and worse. I too would be just as happy with disabling student private chats altogether especially in K-8 and just permitting teacher to student communication
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Francisco R.
commented
As far as I know, if I am not mistaken we can private message anyone by accessing the chat window using @ followed the contact name. That is how I communicate privately with my professors. Maybe I misunderstood this question.....
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Shahid
commented
Much needed feature for education sector.
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Anonymous
commented
Speaking as a tech admin at a primary school, we really need this feature!
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Eric Redegeld
commented
Indeed students don't like this. But reason for this option is that students are misbehaving on the chat. And for online hybride lessons we need chat. So if we disable chat all contact are gone. So student rather giving comment saying it's ugly. What are the right way then
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B Kenny
commented
For schools, an essential for maintaining a safe online environment!
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Tom
commented
Yes as an admin, absolutely need this policy
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Anonymous
commented
Speaking as a student, I believe this is a bad idea. Not everyone has phones, and since people aren't able to contact each other in real life, this is some people's way of staying social. With these chats, the messages can be monitored and there will be consequences for saying mean things so no one will. Even for the students who do have phones, like me, I dont have everyone's phone numbers. I understand why some people might want this, because it could be distrupting class, but for the students who cannot contact people in other ways, think of what this would do for their mental health. Socialization is important, and if kids cannot focus and take their grades into their own hands then hopefully the are too young for their grades to matter in the long run. It is not worth it to kick the private chatting system. Dont do it.
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jibril
commented
nooooo
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Anonymous
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no
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Anonymous Teacher
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I agree that we need to be able to turn off chat for students. We are having issues with students chatting with students in different classrooms. It is disruptive, and there is no way to monitor what students are saying in those chats.
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BOB
commented
this idea is bad