Q&A in Microsoft Teams conferences

Question and answer( Q&A)lets you manage concerns from attendees as an organizer. Q&A is best for large, structured conferences– like town halls, webinars, all hands, and business trainings– where speakers take questions from attendees and answer them in genuine time. As an organizer, you can pick to have a moderated or unmoderated Q&A. In Q&A settings, you can allow replies, confidential posts, and more. Actions to questions are threaded in a conversation with the initial concern. As an organizer, you can designate the function of co-organizer to someone in the meeting, and they can likewise help screen questions as mediators.

Note: Q&A small amounts capabilities are restricted to organizers and co-organizers. If you desire a person to moderate Q&A for your conference, then add them as a moderator.

How to make it possible for Q&A in your conference

From Outlook:

1. Open a brand-new calendar occasion.

2. Select Satisfying Options at the top of the window.

3. Go to Make It Possible For Q&A and choose the Yes toggle.

1. From Teams, before the conference begins: Set up a meeting

2. and send it. Open the welcome from your calendar and select Fulfilling choices at the top.

3. Go to Allow Q&A and select the Yes toggle.

From Teams, throughout the meeting:

1. Select More actions< img src="https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/208c741e-6b23-4e48-8da9-0f1610db5b85.png" alt="More actions icon"/ > at the top of the meeting window.

2. Select Satisfying alternatives.

3. Go to Make It Possible For Q&A and select the Yes toggle.

Notes:

• Q&A should just be allowed through Satisfying choices. If you have utilized the Q&A app from the Groups app store, then remove the app and rather utilize Fulfilling choices to make it possible for Q&A. See guidelines listed below on how to remove the Q&A app added through the Teams app shop.

• Q&A is available to participants throughout the meeting through the meeting window and as a tab in conference chat.

Finest practices for setting up Q&A

Select the following settings in Satisfying options:

1. Choose co-organizers: Co-organizers can handle Q&A settings, moderate, and carry out actions such as pinning a question and deleting posts.

2. Disable meeting chat [optional]: If you don’t desire attendees to use the meeting chat in addition to Q&A, select Handicapped from the dropdown.

3. Got to Enable Q&A and select Yes.

4. Save your modifications.

Handle Q&A settings

Meeting organizers and co-organizers can handle Q&A settings and the guest experience, such as allowing moderation, picking whether guests can post concerns anonymously, and reply to conversations.

To get to Q&A settings, join your meeting as an organizer or co-organizer and choose the equipments icon.

Select between a moderated and unmoderated meeting

In an unmoderated conference, participants’ questions will appear in the Q&A feed immediately.

If you have turned on small amounts, you will see three headings in the Q&A thread. They are:

• In review: When small amounts is made it possible for, all brand-new concerns will appear in the In review tab. Any moderator (organizer or co-organizer) can examine and either release or dismiss concerns.

• Published: Released questions will be moved to the Publishedtab and noticeable to all guests.

• Dismissed: Dismissed questions will be transferred to the Dismissedtab. Dismissed questions can be published later on, if desired.

Participant Q&A experience

Attendees can engage with Q&A in the Teams conference on Teams Desktop, Mobile and web. Q&A is created for meetings that need more structure. Whether a conference is moderated or not, attendees will just see a single Q&A feed. They can publish, respond, and react to concerns in the Q&A feed.

If moderation is made it possible for, when guests send a question, they will be alerted that the concern has been received and will be released once the moderator authorizes.

Note: Q&A will not be offered to View Just Attendees who sign up with past the meeting capability.

How to post an anonymous concern

If enabled, participants can select to post concerns anonymously when this setting is made it possible for by a mediator. The published question is not related to the guest. Mediators can switch off confidential posting at any time. Questions that were formerly anonymously will continue to show up as anonymous.

Note: Replies and reactions on confidential questions are not anonymous.

Groups Q&A app

What is the distinction in between establishing Q&A through the Teams app store versus using Fulfilling alternatives?

We have streamlined enabling Q&A through Satisfying choices. Moving forward, Q&A needs to just be enabled through Fulfilling choices. The Q&A app in the Groups app store will be eliminated in August 2022, so please only use Meeting choices to set up Q&A in your conferences. If you are the organizer for meetings where Q&A was made it possible for through the Groups app shop, please remove the Q&A app, and rather just allow through Satisfying options.

Why am I seeing 2 Q&A icons in my meeting?

You’re seeing 2 Q&A icons in your conference because Q&A was likewise made it possible for through Fulfilling options. Please get rid of the Q&A app that was added through the Groups app store using the instructions below. Please do this for all your conferences where you had actually previously added Q&A through the Teams app shop.

1. Via the Teams desktop app, join the conference where you formerly added Q&A.

2. Select the 2nd Q&A icon (next to Apps < img src ="https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/9fe5e0f8-170a-4ab0-bdb8-9b5a59e26d2d.png"alt ="Cross icon at top of the screen "/ >) in the Teams conference window– this is the Q&A experience that was added through the Groups app store.

3. With the Q&A tab open, select >

4. Remove. A verification will turn up Select Remove and you’re done. This will completely remove the app from your meetings.

For more details for admins, see https://aka.ms/QnAadmin

Q&A lets you manage questions from participants in bigger meetings, like city center, webinars, all hands, and trainings. As an organizer, you can select to have actually moderated or unmoderated Q&A sessions.