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!

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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Anonymous commented
plz provide ASAP
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Anonymous commented
Please provide asap!
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Charoula Constantinou commented
A must have ASAP!!!!
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Anonymous commented
A must feature needed to control discipline in class. Please provide ASAP.
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Fernando Marques commented
This is a must feature to give presenters more control to their meetings. MICROSOFT needs to address this issue as in our schools is becoming a privacy concern.
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John commented
imperative to have this option for EDU - when is this happening?
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Treyon commented
I agree, currently i wish i could create a team and block all new members from inviting others so i can contorl the organization and who comes in. Its a problem that anyone can invite someone and get access to content they shouldnt and didnt pay for
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Fran commented
Important for teams for education, please attend to this soon... and if it is not possible some kind of alternative such as alerting the host when an invite goes out and enabling them to stop it and/or see who invited the other student, preferably live but after the fact would be suitable as a fast and immediate fix for educators. Even if preventing invites isn't possible in the short term there ought to be some sort of quick fix for educators. The ability to access some sort of log with time stamps of when people came in and out of the meeting and who invited them might be more feasible, wouldn't fix student behaviour, but it would allow us to better address it.
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Amit Gupta commented
Dear Admin, Any update on this voice?
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Anonymous commented
Yes - now please. Good grief.
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Kevin Lavelle commented
This seriously needs to happen fast.
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Ramazan Oral commented
Very important...
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Anonymous commented
Yes
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Anonymous commented
Yes
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Anonymous commented
Very important, this issue causes many problems
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Uvani Fernando commented
As educators we like to have a notification if a student joins from other schools for the security and wellbeing of all students based on the school domain so that it is easy to track .
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Anonymous commented
I run a GEMS school with over 10,700 students and I must thank Microsoft for developing TEAMS. The only serious issue is that students can invite other students into the class. This is causing a lot of disturbances. I hope it is rectified and as Principal I will have control over who sits in a class.
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Anonymous commented
This is a problem for us too, we run lessons during school hours and activities during the evening, which is causing problems because students and staff are getting calls when they're not on shift. It would make things so much easier if students didn't the 'invite' option.
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MrNewman commented
We found out the hard way they could do this. Kids just always test loopholes and they have found this one and are exploiting it hard! Please fix this, if not for the children but for teachers' Sanity!!!
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Ritesh Dhanak commented
Absolutely necessary in an education setting to have this feature as teachers should not have classes disrupted by studnets who try and invite their friends.