Manage student participation
Use Teams to guide the class conversation and keep meetings on track.
Limit chat in channel meetings
Channel moderation lets you choose who can post to chat in a channel meeting.
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Go to the channel and open More options .
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Select Manage channel.
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Toggle Channel moderation to On.
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Under Team member permissions, select the checkboxes next to the activities you want to allow. If you do not want students to post, select the checkbox next to Allow members to reply to channel messages.
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Select Manage to designate students who can post to chat. Add students and remove them when you need.
Note: You can ask your IT Admin to adjust settings so you can manage chat in both general and channel meetings.
Raise your hand and Live reactions
You and your students can raise your hand virtually or express yourself with an emoji.
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On the meeting toolbar, hover over the icon for Raise your hand/Live reactions.
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If you need to ask a question or make a comment, click the hand icon . You can also choose an emoji to display a response or feeling.
Mute students
To choose when to open class discussion, select Show participants and make your selection:
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Choose Mute all to turn off everyone's microphone but your own.
Note: You cannot unmute students, but you can control when they can unmute.
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Mute one or more students by hovering over their name. Select More options > Mute.
Tip: To keep students from unmuting, select Show participants > Don't allow attendees to unmute > Don't allow. When you want students to be able to unmute, repeat these steps and choose Allow attendees to unmute.
Take attendance
Create a report of students who attended the class meeting.
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Select Show participants .
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Click Download attendee list .
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Your report is saved in your Downloads folder and can be opened in Excel.