hi everyone kevin here today i want to show you how you can disable chat in a microsoft teams meeting i’ll show you how you can do it while a meeting is ongoing and also how you can configure that before the meeting even starts lastly i’ll also show you how you can set it so people can only chat when you yourself are in the meeting all right well let’s jump into microsoft teams to see how we can do this here i am in microsoft teams and today i’m presenting on employee benefits at the kevin cookie company here if i click on chat it looks like a few different chat messages have been coming through it looks like a bunch of people have some questions and some feedback but i want everyone to focus on the deck over here on the left so i think i’m just going to turn off the chat altogether now by default chat is enabled and while i’m presenting anyone can come in here to chat if i want to change that i’ll go up to the top bar and click on the ellipsis right here i see an option for meeting options let’s click on this this opens up meeting options now and at the very bottom there is now a new option and it says allow meeting chat and currently it’s enabled this means that anyone can chat a message while i’m presenting now once again i want everyone to pay attention to all the great things i have to say and i want it to be more of a one-way communication if i click on this drop-down list i can disable the meeting chat next let’s click on save i’ve now successfully disabled the meeting chat and if i click back over on chat here i see a message letting me know that chat has been turned off for this meeting and no one should be able to send any more questions here for example i am now in nestor’s view and he has his chat open he can see my slides but if he tries to type anything in he sees this message down here telling him that the chat has been turned off for this meeting now once i finish going through the whole presentation it might make sense to turn chat back on now just like i turned it off i could go back to the same place to turn chat back on here i’ll go to the meeting controls on top and click on the ellipsis right here again i’ll go into meeting options and down below where it says allow meeting chat i can click on this and i can re-enable the chat next let’s click on save now that i’ve turned meeting chat back on here within nestor’s view he sees a notification letting him know that chat is now re-enabled and here nester could come down and he could send through a question now along with being able to disable or enable the meeting chat while a meeting is going on you can also set this up ahead of time here in my calendar i see the meeting on employee benefits i can click into the meeting details and here within meeting details up on the top there’s meeting options let’s click on this this brings us into the meeting options and here too also at the very bottom we see the option for allow meeting chat by default it’s set to enable meaning that anyone who joins in is able to chat now i could also set it to disabled this way when people join the meeting chat will be turned off from the very start within this menu there’s also a third option and it’s called in meeting only what this means is participants are only able to chat if they’re actually in the meeting let’s try turning this on to see what type of impact it has here i’ll select in meeting only and now i’ll click on save i’m now here within paddy’s view and i’m looking at the meeting details here if i go over and click on chat because i said it so you can only chat within the meeting here you’ll see that chat is turned off so patty has to join the meeting before she’s able to chat patty has now joined the meeting and you’ll see that she’s now able to chat over here because she’s now in the meeting next i want to show you how you can set it up so people can only chat when you yourself are in the meeting back within my view let’s go right back up to meeting details and then click on meeting options back within meeting options once again i can confirm that my attendees can only chat when they’re in the meeting but like we just saw with patty she was able to join the meeting and then she could start chatting now i want to be in the meeting for anyone to chat up on top there’s the option that says who can bypass the lobby with the lobby people can’t join the meeting until i let them in so here if i select only me i have to let people into the meeting and once i let them in then they could start chatting this effectively gives me complete control over the chat people can only chat when i am present i’m now in the meeting and no one else has joined yet here i can see that two people are waiting in the lobby since no one else has joined the meeting yet and you can only chat when you’re in the meeting no one’s been able to contribute to the chat yet here if i click over on participants here i can see that both nestor and patty are waiting so let me go ahead and admit everyone into this meeting now that both nestor and patty are in the meeting and i set it so they could only type while they’re in the meeting here now if i click on the chat i could see that nestor said hey thanks for letting me in once the meeting’s over if i no longer want people to be able to chat let’s say i’m leaving and i don’t want a conversation to continue without me right up on the top right hand corner where we have the leave button i can click on this drop down and then i can click on end meeting this will end the meeting for everyone and once again if i have it configured so there’s a lobby and i have to let people in this effectively means that no one can chat before or after the meeting and i have to be present for all conversations to occur alright if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up to see more videos like this in the future make sure to hit that subscribe button also if you want to see me cover any other topics on this channel 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