"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.
184 comments
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Alastair Tams
commented
Like some other commenters still find that students can bypass the lobby rather than waiting for me and start the meeting. Once the meeting is started, then the lobby comes into play. Perhaps a setting that prevents that is missing.
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Anonymous
commented
As others have said, having an "on/off" switch for the lobby inside the meeting would be invaluable.
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Anonymous
commented
I use the "only me" setting yet some students still bypass the lobby
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Edgar Collado
commented
Can we make this an admin setting so that it can be set at the org level and not only at the user level. This is a key feature that many of your competitors offer and should be something that we can make standard for all meetings and not just a setting to select for each meeting. Thank you.
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Anonymous
commented
Is there a way to make it so if someone creates the meetings any owner of the team can start the meeting by passing through the lobby? This way if more than one teacher is on a team they would also be able to start the meeting.
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Anonymous
commented
I have two to three students that can bypass the lobby each time. Any suggestions on ho to fix this. It is set to only me.
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Anonymous
commented
Hi I am facing this same issue that the students are able to join the meeting on their own and talk without my permission though I have changed the setting to only me as who can bypass the lobby but still this issue is there
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Anonymous
commented
The "only me" is a great start! How about an only those I select option. This way an admin or another staff could begin the meeting if necessary.
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Dawn
commented
I set those and when I’m in meeting they just appear...is that because I’ve already started the meeting?
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Jana Bernhardt
commented
Would be great if any owner of the team could bypass the lobby, so co-teachers, admin, sub could also bypass the lobby and start the scheduled meeting if a teacher is absent!
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Dave Gorman
commented
It would be great if this was part of the policy and also included "Selected users"
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John
commented
We also have the same concern. We wish to take off this "burden" from our educators and have it implemented as a global policy instead. Thanks!!!
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Anonymous
commented
This is better; but I've got to rely on every teacher to do this individually for every meeting they organise? Really needs to be a global policy. (Also, I can't get to Meeting Options on my Mac as it doesn't work with Safari, which is very irritating.)
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Chris TW Looi commented
Is there a user voice to vote this as global policy? I can't find any. Can anyone create a user voice for this?
Thanks. Great.
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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.
