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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

    While this latest update is definitely welcome, and is a step in the right direction, as the documentation states, it is ONLY effective for those users that are accessing Teams via the Teams apps.

    If the students are using the Web app in Chrome or Edge.. they still bypass this new feature and go directly into meetings. We need this to be consistent across all methods of accessing Teams as no matter how hard we try, we will never get ALL students to use the apps when they've been using the in-browser experience successfully for a long time.

    When can we expect this to take effect for the web app?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank goodness. Just wish it had been sooner. Teachers will be grateful for this facility. Just read some of the feedback, does this need some more policy changes doing from Teams admin to get it to work. If so I will need to let them see this. Also sounds like it may not work even when I do.. why does it have to be so complex. We need another category for joining meetings. Or indeed when setting up the team - that of student, we have kids in year 3 muting the teacher it’s a joke. Changing the settings from manage team seems to have no affect as I imagine it’s over written by what’s been set at policy level.

  • Gareth Hughes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Same as others - updated to latest Teams version etc and the policies were already set as the instructions explained. No difference? Students could still start the meetings themselves.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have also checked for most recent version of Teams (1.3.00.15561 ref 4.4.63.0).

    Pupils can still join the meetings early, it has not made any difference. Please check.

  • Graeme Thompson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have also downloaded and installed the most recent version of Teams (1.3.00.15561 ref 4.4.63.0) for both the meeting organiser and pupil and ensured all settings for our pupils and staff policies reflect the settings in your link. To be honest they were already setup as you suggest.
    It doesn't seem to have made any difference and the pupils can still join the meetings early.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That all sounds great. Thank you. I've just downloaded the latest versions. It doesn't seem to work for my accounts? (Students have the Education_PrimaryStudent_RemoteLearning policy applied, which doesn't allow them to schedule meetings, they can however today still enter meetings before the teacher and use chat. I'm probably doing something wrong...

  • DonutCat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank you for this, however there is a small bug in the logic. A user with rights to create meetings can start the meeting without the organiser. This is OK when only staff have the rights, however the attendee user with rights to create meetings starting this meeting space can then not end it, as only the organiser can.
    Can we have the logic where anyone who can start the meeting can end it, or only the organiser can start the meeting.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a safeguarding issue, as I don’t want children in a meeting before the teacher has joined. This should take priority over other developments if possible.

  • Sarah Blower commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be useful to be able to remove a student from a meeting who is creating a distraction through the chat or repeatedly muting the teacher. If they are removed form the meeting - at the moment they can immediately rejoin. If they were required to wait in the lobby the teacher could prevent disruptive students returning in that session by not readmitting them from the lobby. As they are members of the organisation that is not possible at the moment.

  • M Loughbrough commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    ASAP please. We are having to resort to starting ad hoc then sending a link. Seems a little backward when we can schedule via teams otherwise.

  • achal jain commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is the biggest facility required to stop students being unattended without the educator.

  • anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This needs to be addressed immediately. It has immense implications if students are in a virtual room without the educator present. We need more control over student accessibility for Teams meetings to be a secure trustworthy tool. There needs to be an additional function that allows ONLY teachers to start meetings regardless of students being a member of the Team or organization.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please do this as soon as you can as I am worried about my students in the lesson without me.

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