"Wait in lobby" for student (participants) in scheduled meetings
In order to use scheduled meetings for teaching is necessary that the meeting organizer can force student to "wait in lobby" if they try to enter the meeting before the teacher.
In my case, students are part of the organization, they are not guests. For this reason, this functionality for my school is not possible.
The possibility to force participants (even if part of the organization) in the lobby is necessary, because otherwise students could use the scheduled meeting to enter by their own and talk privately without the teacher.
Letizia Pernigotti
shared this idea
We are happy to announce the “Only me” option for “Who can bypass lobby?” setting is now available for Teams meetings. Details on the new lobby option can be found here, https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e.
170 comments
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Aaron
commented
When will Admins be able to apply this as a Global policy?
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Paul
commented
Yes! Thanks for adding this important function. Just tested it with my class and it worked well.
What would take it to the next level would be to have a teacher-only switch inside the meeting that auto-admits students for a specified time period (say 2, 3 or 5 minutes).
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Anonymous
commented
Yay! Thank you for adding this feature. This will be very helpful for teachers.
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Mr P Stiles
commented
This is great news, moving forward how as an Admin can I set this as a default for the whole school?
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Rishabh
commented
Hi,
Does the IT Admin has any option to enable this option for the whole organisation?
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Michael Pariona Alfaro
commented
La gran sugerencia es , que , para el sector educativo. deben de estar deshabilitados esas opciones.
aun con la actualización del Lobby, los alumnos pueden iniciar las reuniones programadas y esto genera un caos en las clases. -
Michael Pariona Alfaro
commented
Como lo realizamos por power shell para todos los usuarios que programan reuniones?
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Tony Hoye
commented
Yes, thankyou! This is working really well.
Cheers
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Amol
commented
Is there any setting in Microsoft teams to make student wait in looby.
Student will enter in meeting only after teacher join the meeting -
Keerthi
commented
Respond ASAP
When will this option roll out
We are very disappointed with this service
Students start meeting with out a teacher
Scheduled meeting starts before time and no lobby
Unrealistic
Can it be rolled out fast
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Anonymous
commented
This is a really important feature that needs to be added to make this appropriate for use in a schools setting. This will create another problem though which is probably even worse than the problem it solves.
If a student forwards on a meeting request to someone outside your organisation, they can join as a guest and wait in the lobby alongside the other students and the teacher will have to try and spot that one stranger among the 30 other people waiting in the lobby. I think this will be really hard to spot.
I think there needs to be more granular controls where guests can join meetings. Realistically, we need to allow guests to access meetings or we will never be able to have an online meeting with a parent (who won't have a Teams or Skype for Business account). -
Hermine Turner
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I hope that you are making this option to be based on the assigned license type, i.e. student license. If teachers and students are in the same organization, your options do not do much to restrict students from starting the meeting. Student License users should stay in the lobby while faculty license users should be able to start the meeting, print meeting list and end the meeting.
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Paul
commented
Hey team, it's been two months since the last update. Can we please have a progress update on this very important function?
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Jhan LaTulippe
commented
We are a K-12 school that just rolled out teams. This really needs to be implemented quickly. It is very difficult convincing Google people that Teams is better and more secure when seemingly small things such as a lobby and only teachers can start and end meetings is not available. Fix it!!
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Anonymous
commented
Please roll this out on all versions (desktop and app) soon. We have had to resort to scheduling the meeting just before the lesson starts, wait for everyone to leave at the end before ending the meeting and cancelling it so students can't go back in and talk without the teacher present. Not ideal at all
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Anonymous
commented
when you make this can you ensure that students are always placed in the lobby before the lesson starts and the teacher has to admit them one by one. If they are automatically added if the teacher is present then if you need to remove a student from the lesson due to inappropriate behaviour then they will continue to be able to rejoin the lesson
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Anonymous
commented
How Soon can we expect the release of this?
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Anonymous
commented
Is Microsoft still developing this as it is not working for us?
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Charbel Yuwashima
commented
A pior coisa que a MIcrosoft já criou. Estou totalmente desamparado com isso
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[Deleted User]
commented
UPDATE EVERYONE: I used my student testing account in my organisation in Teams, and figured that this is now live! There is no option visible to enable or disable it though - it is just there. Students/nobody can join the meeting without presence of the meeting organiser.
