Mute student comments in a class team by default

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Mute student comments in a class team by default

Wesley Jones 75

So, we have team's team for each class made automatically from bromcom, this is our first year of doing things this way, as previously we had windows 10 and server 2012...

We locked down teams, so students could not, start chats , talk to each other, or comment in teams.

How ever one of the teachers has been using assignments and the children have been able to comment on that, and we have had an incident. I have gone threw and muted every child in every team, but the new academic year starts next sept and we will have all new teams. I dont want to have to do it manually again.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/teams/education/mute-student-comments-in-a-class-team

This is what i did, but is there no way to do this for all our class teams by default, or have our student users muted by default? I have asked chat gpt which say yes this can be done, but then the link to its source, is just that page or a variation of it which says you can not do it.

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Anonymous

Hello Wesley Jones,

Thank you for your question. I completely understand why this is frustrating, especially if you're creating a large number of Class Teams each academic year and want student commenting to be restricted by default.

Based on the current behavior of Microsoft Teams for Education, there is no built-in setting to automatically mute students in all newly created Class Teams by default. The "Mute students" setting is currently applied on a per-Class Team basis, which means it needs to be configured individually for each team after it has been created.

As things stand today, the quickest available approach is still to open each Class Team and use the "Mute all students" option, rather than muting students one at a time.

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Unfortunately, there isn't currently a tenant-wide setting or default policy that automatically enables this for all future Class Teams.

Personally, I completely agree that it would be very useful to have a setting that allows administrators or educators to define student commenting permissions as a default for newly provisioned Class Teams. If you'd like to help bring visibility to this idea, I'd encourage you to submit feedback through the Microsoft Feedback Portal: Microsoft Teams · Community

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The Product Team is responsible for the feedback site and regularly reviews comments and suggestions from customers. Many features and improvements have been implemented over time based on feedback received from users.

After submitting your suggestion, feel free to return here and post the feedback link in this thread. That way, other educators and administrators who come across this discussion can review it and upvote the request, helping to bring more attention to the feature.

Thank you again for raising the question, and I completely understand the challenge of having to repeat the same configuration across multiple teams each year.

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Wesley Jones 75 Reputation points

2026-07-03T14:38:54.0566667+00:00

Thanks for your help I have done that,

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/234eca80-ec76-f111-9b48-6045bd818e39

My bigger issue with doing it manually is that if a team has 30 or less pupils then you do NOT get the mute all option and have to select each child, the mute all only shows up in classes of 31 or more, like below.
Anonymous

2026-07-03T15:02:23.28+00:00

Hi Wesley Jones,

Thank you for the additional details and for sharing the screenshots. I also appreciate you submitting the feedback request.

Regarding the behavior of mute all option, when I tested this on my side, I was still presented with the "Mute all members" checkbox even in a small class team with only a few members (my test team had just 3 members), so the result appears to be different from what you're seeing.

Could you please let me know whether you're using the Teams desktop application or Teams on the web when this occurs?

If you're using the Teams desktop app, would you mind clearing the Teams cache and then testing again? Microsoft provides instructions here: Clear the Teams client cache - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

It would also be very helpful if you could test the same team in Teams on the web and let me know whether you see the same behavior there.

This will help determine whether we're looking at a client-side issue, a caching issue, or a difference in how the feature is being rendered in your environment.

I look forward to your findings.

Best regards,
Wesley Jones 75 Reputation points

2026-07-06T07:54:05.57+00:00

The desk top app, i reset it like in the instructions and that seems to have solved the issue, smaller teams now have the option.
Anonymous

2026-07-06T10:54:24.5066667+00:00

Hi Wesley Jones,

Thank you for your reply.

I'm glad to hear that resetting the Teams desktop application as described in the instructions resolved the issue and that the option is now appearing for smaller teams as expected.

Thank you as well for taking the time to test the workaround and report back with the results. This information may also be helpful to other community members who encounter a similar behavior.

If you need any further assistance in the future, please feel free to reply to this thread. I'll be happy to help whenever I can.

Best regards,