Q&A Functionality Added To Microsoft Teams Meetings

How do Q&As work in Microsoft Teams?

To enable the Q&A functionality within a meeting you will need to turn the Q&A option in your meeting settings. This can be access by clicking the three dots in the top right of an existing meeting and choosing “Meeting Options” from there you can screen down and turn “Enable Q&A” on.

Once on attendees will be able to see a new Q&A icon in their menu bar which they will be able to use to ask the presenter questions. To encourage people to use this icon Microsoft have created the below image which they encourage you to edit and share with your attendees.

Organisers and presenters are able to answer questions publicly or privately, as well as being able to close messages to prevent further responses, delete duplicate questions and filter questions between all questions, unanswered questions and answered questions.

Attendees are also able to ask questions anonymously if they wish:

All questions can be monitored before they are published and it is good practice that this is used. You should let your attendees know that all questions will be monitored and then you can review questions and discussions before answering them and publishing live, if you wish.

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