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Prevent student from leaving a class team

We should be able to lock Team / Office 365 group in such way that students can't leave the team.

This needs to be considered from both an IT-pro as well as team owner perspective

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  • N TK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely important for our School. MS please do something soon!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    But in education, if someone leaves on their own, they miss out on assignments. If they miss out on assignments, they get zeroes, so if you give them the choice, they will have to make a decision.

  • Erik Olsson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Workaround💡: With dynamic membership - team members cannot leave a team.

    Based on rules in the AD - All students with attribute "Class 7B" in the AD would belong to the team "Class 7B" and cannot leave.

    However, because membership is then controlled by rules, you lose the ability to add/remove students manually to the team. You can read everything about it here and see if it's a good fit for your needs:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/dynamic-memberships

  • Nick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For teaching (I teach in Higher Ed.), this is a key and priority feature.

    When we post a formal announcement, we need to know all students have received it (even from a legal perspective). Currently we cannot use Teams for this purpose in case a student leaves.

    Furthermore, we tend to create teams using email groups from our exchange servers. Presumably, when a group is used to populate a team, it queries the list of names at that point in time. However, groups are modified over time as students join and leave.

    Therefore, if a team could use logical groups (which are dynamic in nature), this might be a way to circumvent this limitation? I appreciate this could create issues with orphaned posts, so it is non-trivial.

  • Isabella commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is the case already (at least for me). I am unable to leave my teams. This is, however, very frustrating as I am unable to leave a team from last semester. I am able to hide it and thankfully there is no one that is messaging in there. But there could be a case where someone coould message in there and bombard others with messages. Plus, it could be even MORE frustrating if the teacher is no longer at the school.

  • Ahmad Moussa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please we need this feature, its very important to prevent students from leaving the teams groups. Thank you.

  • Sanjay Dhingra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In Education, it is essential that students(members) should not be able to leave their Class Team. For members it should be locked and only owners can remove them.

  • Naveen Kishore commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are a school as well and we need this feature too, request Microsoft to implement this feature. This feature is definitely needed for education plans because we do not want students to leave their class teams.

  • M Azharuddin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In Education, it is essential that students(members) should not be able to leave their Class Team. For members it should be locked and only owners can remove them.

  • An. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please , please, please MS - add the feature so Admin can block users/students from leaving a group!!

  • Iain commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree this function should be disabled to stop students leaving the teams

  • Ajmal Latif commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Voted, I am Teams Administrator in my University, same issue here, teachers are facing issues with this leave team option as students are leaving the team which should not be allowed.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree, one person, in particular, keeps leaving my class ... so annoying.
    I am lucky it is only 1 person I suppose.

  • Junior commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm a teacher and my studnets keep leaving the Team I create for the class. I want to be able to lock them into the Team where they cant leave. This feature is not possible at the moment

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