- Hello again, Jeremy Chapman from Microsoft Mechanics,
and I want to share a quick tip
for people managing Teams meetings
and it's one of the top requests that I get,
especially from teachers, who ask
how can they create a meeting
where students aren't allowed to mute each other,
remove each other from the meeting
or even remove the teacher from the meeting?
I'm gonna show you how with just one quick tip
coming up next.
Okay, so let's say I'm the school's IT department
or a teacher's assistant,
and I've set up a meeting between students
and I'll represent Megan as the one student
and Diego who's the teacher,
I'm actually logged in as Adele Vance,
you'll see up here.
All right, so looks like a typical meeting,
now when I join the meeting,
you'll see on my screen
that I have both Megan and Diego
already joined to the meeting.
And I can go into show participants
and as the organizer, I have immunity from being muted
or removed from the meeting.
But you can see I have the ability
to remove the participant,
make them an attendee, or mute the participant
if their microphone's active.
Now, let's say I go into Diego's screen
who's the actual teacher in this case,
in my case now, I can go in as you might expect,
and I would be able to mute,
another attendee if they're not already muted.
I can also remove them, which is okay
because I'm still the teacher,
but now if I switch over and I'm logged in as Megan,
I'm the student now,
you can see I'm logged in as Megan,
so the problem is the teacher here,
Diego and Megan have the same role and the same status,
they're both presenters.
So, Megan if she wants to,
she can remove Diego, who's the teacher.
So I'll go ahead and remove Diego
and now Diego is out of the meeting,
but he's the teacher.
So, how do I fix this,
to make it so people who are either practical joking
or just want to have some fun
I guess during their classroom, can't do that
and let me show you how.
Now here I am back in the edit view of my meeting,
so I have to go into the meeting
to make a few setting changes in order to prevent Megan
from either muting or removing Diego the teacher
from the meetings, so let me do that.
So I go into meeting options
and you can see that I have a couple of controls here
that are super useful.
One, we have the meeting lobby.
So for example, if I give everybody
an invite to the meeting,
I can either have them wait in the lobby,
which is great if you've got some people that
try to join your meetings, but they shouldn't be admitted in
maybe a student forwarded those meetings
to someone they shouldn't have
or, their accounts were compromised, any of that stuff,
but, the one that I want to show you
is actually who can present.
So here in this case,
we can make it so just specific people can present.
So, you remember that we had
three participants in our case
and we want to actually make Megan not be able to present.
So I'm gonna go ahead and select Diego,
who in this case is playing the role of our teacher,
and I'll click Save.
Okay, so now we can close this window down,
now we can all rejoin the meeting.
So I'm gonna go ahead and do that
for the other participants.
Okay, so I've gone and I've joined
the other two participants, the student and the teacher,
now I'll join as the teacher's assistant, Adele.
Okay, so now we can see everyone's in the meeting.
So, as you would expect on my side again,
because I'm the organizer, in this case,
I'm the TA or I'm the IT resource
who's schedule all of these meetings,
I can go in and have the ability
to mute or remove the participant,
for the presenters and attendees.
You can see now though, that we've got two different roles.
We've got presenter roles, the organizer
and Diego the teacher,
and now we have an attendee role.
So if we go and look at what Megan can do now,
now if I want to actually go in
and try to remove my teacher Diego,
you'll see that I can't do that.
So that was just a quick tip of using meeting options
within Microsoft Teams to actually control the presenter
and attendee roles,
and also set up controls around who can attend
and the behavior of the admit lobby as well.
Hopefully you found this useful
and you can check out more tips
at aka.ms/WFHMechanics.
Thanks for watching.