It’s finally here. You can now set students to the attendee role by default in Microsoft Teams meetings. Today Microsoft released a boat load of additional Microsoft Teams meeting policy settings. Most of them are useful, but the most important one for schools is the Designated presenter role mode setting. This allows administrators to automatically […]
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New feature: change student attendee status during a Teams meeting
Just rolling out is this under reported feature. Until today, if you wanted to set a students the attendee role in a Teams meeting you would either have to do it before the start of the meeting, or manually during the lesson. With this new option, accessible from the participants window during a meeting, you […]
Liven up your Teams tabs with emoji 🤮
We live in a world where an over-enthusiastic bundle of pixels can get their own movie. It’s not right, and it’s not clever, but for some reason people seem to love emoji. Well, you can rejoice, as you can now use emoji in Microsoft Teams to liven up your channel’s tabs: If you choose to […]
Microsoft Teams instant channel meetings – the button is moving!
The updates keep coming. A couple of a weeks ago, Microsoft announced several new features coming to Microsoft Teams designed to improve the experience for teachers and students. Some of these new features have already hit, including background effects in meetings, and the desperately needed end meeting button, but the company has provided further details […]
How to turn off chat for students in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams chat is great for communicating with students and teachers, but it can also be abused. So, if you need to sanction a student or completely remove the chat feature from them, here’s how you do it. Something to be aware of when banning students from chat No school wants students to use their […]
