"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
Thanks again for your feedback on this. The team has begun working on an option requiring everyone other than the meeting organizer to go thru the lobby. We will continue to evaluate our best option to release with increased priority.
If, in addition to a per meeting control, you are looking for admin level control to prevent students from starting any meeting or any calls without educators present, and want to apply this control regardless of whether a meeting organizer remembers to change the lobby option, please vote on this UV item – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39962347
Gordon Chang from Teams
121 comments
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Anonymous
commented
please make change in such a way that team owner can join meeting without waiting in lobby but team members haveto wait in lobby
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Anonymous
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Actually, this is not a bad idea. Kids need time WITHOUT adults, and then they wait until the teacher comes. Microsoft, please don't patch this.
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Neil Constant
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Any update on this as it’s an extremely important feature.
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Gaurav
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ETA please. Urgently Required.
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Anonymous
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This is one of the core safeguarding features to make live lessons effective
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Juan R
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Come on Microsoft! This should not be difficult to do. Just put all participants in the waiting room
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Ian E
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I want ALL participants in the Lobby where I can give them access. This is an obvious requirement to control access to meetings. ZOOM had this functionality
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Eric Redegeld
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As extra option in the meeting options section "all particitants" would be great
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Ivan
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I see this only as optional feature. During quarantine my students don't communicate to each other but to the other friends, so why would we want to strictly control their communication within the group? It is better for the healthy atmosphere in group to be able to communicate without a teacher around.
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Gaurav
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Any tentative dates for the release of this feature? Because this creates a lot of problem even if you cancel meeting after taking class.
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Павел
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This feature is very important for schools.
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Matt
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This is one of the main reasons our users continue to use Zoom. We really need this to be a priority.
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M
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This is rather urgent for schools. Any update? Timeline? Would be really appreciated.
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Anonymous
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As atualizações da Microsoft demoram de mais!! Não temos esse tempo, as coisas estão acontecendo agora..
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Anonymous
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This would be so useful
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Rovin Singh
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Come on MS! this has been put off for way too long already! get this released now!!! Schools need this yesterday!
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Anonymous
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Good idea!
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Anonymous
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ZZZZZZZZzzzz!!!!
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Ralph Boccalini
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It will be helpful if even the 'Guest' users can be added to the lobby until the teacher starts the meeting, When will this be available?
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Anonymous
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Come on Microsoft sureLy it’s not that difficult. Teams is disabled for our students. Cannot use it for class notebooks or assignments. Wasted so much time implementing a system that doesn’t work. Also annoys me that policy packages within teams cannot be deployed to groups. Who wrote this software!!!!