Manage questions from attendees with Q&A. Q&A is great for large, structured meetings, like town halls or webinars. Presenters can take questions from attendees and answer them in real time.
As an organizer, you can choose whether you want the Q&A to be controlled or uncontrolled. Enable replies, anonymous posts, and more from the Q&A settings. Answers to questions will be linked to the original question. To get more help moderating, make someone in the meeting a co-organizer.
Note: Q&A moderation capabilities are limited to organizers and co-organizers.
Enable Q&A in a meeting
From Outlook
-
Open a new calendar event.
-
Select Meeting Options at the top of the window.
-
Go to Enable Q&A and select the Yes toggle.
From Teams
Before a meeting
-
Open a meeting you organized in your Teams calendar.
-
Select More options
-
In Engagement
-
Select Save.
During a meeting
-
Join a meeting you organized in Teams.
-
Select More actions
-
Select Settings
-
In Engagement
-
Select Save.
Note: Q&A is available to attendees during the meeting in the meeting window and as a tab in meeting chat.
Best practices for setting up Q&A
In your meeting options, there are additional settings you can apply for a smoother Q&A experience:
-
In Roles
-
Turn the meeting chat off (optional): If you don’t want attendees to use the meeting chat in addition to Q&A, select Off from the Meeting chat dropdown menu.
Moderate Q&A questions
In an unmoderated meeting, attendees’ questions will appear in the Q&A feed immediately. Turn on moderation to review and approve questions before they appear in the Q&A feed.
To turn on moderation for Q&A:
-
Select Q&A
-
In the Q&A pane, select Q&A settings
-
Turn on the Moderate questions toggle.
-
Select Save.
Replies to questions won't be moderated.
Note: Moderation can't be turned off once it's turned on.
If you've turned on moderation, you’ll see three headings in the Q&A thread:
-
In review: All new questions will appear in the In review tab. Any moderator (organizer or co-organizer) can review and either publish or dismiss questions.
-
Published: Published questions will be moved to the Published tab and visible to all attendees.
-
Dismissed: Dismissed questions can be published later, if desired.
Attendee Q&A experience
Attendees can engage with Q&A in the Teams meeting on Teams for desktop, mobile and web. Q&A is useful in meetings that require more structure. Whether or not a meeting is moderated, attendees will only see a single Q&A feed. There, they can post, reply, and react to questions.
In moderated Q&As, people who post questions will be notified after they post that their question was received and will be published after a moderator approves it.
Note: Q&A won’t be available to view-only attendees who joined past the meeting capacity.
Allow anonymous questions
After you turn on Q&A, you can choose whether to allow attendees to ask questions anonymously.
To allow anonymous questions:
-
Select Q&A
-
In the Q&A pane, select Q&A settings
-
Turn on the Anonymous posts toggle.
. The posted question is not associated with the attendee. Moderators can turn off anonymous posting at any time. Questions that were previously anonymously will continue to show up as anonymous.
Note: Replies and reactions on anonymous questions are not anonymous.
Related topics
Get started with Microsoft Teams webinars
Get started with town hall in Microsoft Teams
Best practices for a large meeting in Microsoft Teams
