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Prevent students from starting a meeting unattended

It would be very useful to be able to prevent students from starting a meeting unattended, regardless of what type of meetings it is.

This because, when working with younger students, the best option is that only teachers can start new meeting (with other teachers and/or with students).

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We set those "Only me" features, but students are starting meetings from other scheduled meetings that remain on their calendar.

  • Some Person commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When kids are in school they can talk before and after class. Teachers do not want kids to talk during class so they should let them talk before and after. Private chats (which have now been disabled in some schools) are also a good thing and I am glad I can use them.

  • Some Person commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is annoying. Our admin changed the default and most of the teachers changed it back. This is not something admin should be in charge of.

  • Ahmad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please remove “meet now” option from students and only they can join when there is an organizer in the meeting.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Me as a student is saying that we should be able to start a meeting unattended because what if u need help and you and your teacher need to do a meeting without everyone else in it

  • shearerka commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need others to be able to start the meeting for teachers who become ill/absent. Also, a secured place to discuss these issues so students can't get just browse and get ideas about how to cause problems by reading these threads! (!!)

  • Amber Williams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a great update. But it still doesn't prevent students from creating chats outside of teacher created meetings. Students are able to send private chats to their classmates, to students outside of their class, and to students in different schools by going into the chat icon and starting a chat group. Teachers have no way of knowing if students are doing this (until it's reported by a student or parent) because it's private chats that can only be seen by those who are invited. This is causing a lot of problems with bullying, etc. The private chat feature needs to be blocked for students.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Gordon Chang. I hope that function will be implemented ASAP. The University is starting again. The opportunity to avoid students to start alternative meetings on the teaching meet "in parallel" with the official meeting opened by the professor, it is essential for the teachers. The option "Only me" for the Lobby is not equivalent because it is avoiding the students to enter in the scheduled lesson, but NOT to start an alternative one and makes jokes. And the best way would be to enable/disable that option, once implemented, on a single basis by the professor (e.g.: a team for the students may require that; a team for the colleagues, not). Thank you! F. G. Pizzetti

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ya know, honestly I as a student have attempted to start a meeting or two that wasn't meant to be started, but instead of starting a meeting I got a blue error screen. So I guess this isn't a problem for my teachers. :)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We also need more than just the meeting organizer to be able to start the meeting. TA's, Admins, any presenters need access to start the class meetings.

  • Lisa West commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Students are able to copy a meeting link (in scheduled meetings or “meet now” meetings) and start a meeting that is completely unattended. Students can even open and join a canceled meeting (that is still visible on the student calendar in Teams).

    The “Coming Soon” update needs a status update. School is back in session and we need this resolved now.

    Thanks!

  • Caleb Reinhardt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teachers can already end the meeting for all attendees...they can either click the menu button on the call controls and select End Meeting, or if they have the new meeting experience, click the down arrow on the hang up button and select End Meeting

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