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Prevent attendees inviting users within an in progress meeting

Currently, attendees are able to use the participants pane in an ongoing meeting to invite users to the meeting. In an education setting, this means disruptive/cheeky students are able to abuse the invite option to call anybody within the school.. There's absolutely no reason in an educational setting for students to be able to invite anybody they like to a live lesson (meeting) - we make them attendees for a reason!

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Ed shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

There are two methods to block students from inviting users to an ongoing meeting: 1) Disable Call Me and 2) Ensure all students are attendees.

Admins: This feature is controlled at the organizer level. To prevent students from using this feature in class meetings, turn this Audio Conferencing setting off for educators organizing class meetings: Dial-out from meetings: Off

Educators: Set Who can present to Only me to ensure that your students and other participants join as meeting attendees.

For more information, please visit: https://support.microsoft.com/office/keeping-students-safe-while-using-teams-for-distance-learning-f00fa399-0473-4d31-ab72-644c137e11c8.

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  • Hadeer Zaki commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Students are still allowed to invited each other, which is very disruptive, even after scheduling a meeting and making only me as a presenter but still, they can invite each other!

  • Madhuri commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even after making the students as attendee they are able to invite other students while the meeting is on. After using the 'only me' feature in the calendar the students should not be able to fiddle with the screen of the presenter but still they are able to mute the presenter.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are facing this issue. The students used to invite other students and they used to create mess in the class. Please enable this feature in order to maintain the discipline

  • RK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In addition to appreciating Microsoft for recognizing this needs to be attended to , I would like them to expedite efforts to incorporate the feature of restricting attendees to invite. Thank you.

  • Sana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I give my opinion and vote to the feature wherein the attendees are able to invite others into the meeting. This feature maybe useful for other forms of organisation but for school setups this is not feasible as empowers the students with simply a tool to play with. We need to conduct our classes peacefully and have been using the Teams platform and shall continue hoping that these changes are brought into the notice of al the concerned personnel and developing team at Microsoft.

  • JC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is currently a big concern in our school students keep calling teachers admin or others to join the current meetings where they're part of. I've tried disabling almost everything and there's currently no way to stop this from happening.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes sure it’s disruptive that the students can invite anyone to attend the meeting

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