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Ability to schedule meetings in private channels

private channels need to be able to schedule meetings.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need to meet with subgroups of students, such as those with particular requirements, and to do so separately from other students. It would be much easier to just schedule a meeting with that group rather than invite each one separately. Thank you!

  • Kendra Bishop commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be extremely helpful. Where we have two separate divisions within a team, and we only want those in each division to be invited to each meeting, not the entire team.

  • Caleb commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would definitely be useful for me, as I have a large number of guests in the team and when I schedule meetings I need to enter each of their email addresses.

  • Justin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This truly is essential in the management of classes, especially larger classes. Please make this happen.

  • Monika commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    with all of online learning demands, it is necessary to organize and manage students in smaller groups. Having the scheduling and recording option in private channels is very needed. Otherwise it creates a chaos!

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm thinking that instead of this for schools we need a type of "Hybrid" channel perhaps called "Class Channel" I'm understanding the need for private channels even in a class team, but we also need semi-private teams for either an entire class or a sub-section of a class where meetings can be scheduled and recorded.

  • Ashwini K Pandey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It does not make sense to be able to create private channels but not able to schedule meetings for those channels. Scheduling channel specific meeting/s is a must feature. Currently meetings can only be scheduled for the General channel or specify IDs of members every time to schedule meetings.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please! This is necessary in order to more skillfully manage online teaching and learning.

  • Juliana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please, this is crucial for all of us teaching remotely right now and even going forward after that.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is essential in education use of teams - we have child protection issues we need to be able to record all meetings, we need to put kids in private teams otherwise they mess about in other groups, but then we lose the ability to schedule meetings and record them!

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