Enable Q&A in Microsoft Teams

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Q&A in Microsoft Teams allows the meeting organizer to receive questions from audience members and respond to them in real-time in an organized manner.

In a Live Event, the Q&A is already activated. However, in a regular meeting, you must first enable it in the meeting policies before adding it to the meeting settings. Thus, in this post, we will learn How to enable Q&A in Meetings in Microsoft Teams.

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How to Enable Q&A in Microsoft Teams?

To allow organizers to enable Q&A in Meetings in Microsoft Teams, you have to do two main actions as the following:

1. Enable Q&A in Team Policy in Microsoft Teams Admin Center
2. Enable Q&A in Meetings options in Microsoft Teams.

Enable Q&A in Team Policy in Microsoft Teams Admin Center

You can use the Teams admin center to manage which organizers can turn on Q&A in large meetings by doing the following:

Steps

1. As a Team Admin, log in to Microsoft Teams Admin Center
2. From the left menu, click on “Meetings” > “Meetings Policies“.

3. Select “Global Org-Wide” Policy and then click on “Edit“.

Note: In case, you don’t need to apply these settings for all people in your organization, you can create a new separate policy for particular users that allows them to only enable auto join meetings in their Teams meetings.

4. Scroll down to “Meeting Engagement“, then enable “Q&A“ as shown below, then click Save.

Note: By default, the Q&A is enabled in Meeting Policy, and you can disable it if you don’t need to enable this feature in meetings in Microsoft Teams.

Enable Q&A during a running meeting in Microsoft Teams

As the meeting’s organizer, Although the Q&A is enabled in the Meeting Policy in Admin Center, you will notice that the Q&A still not appearing in the Meeting Options toolbar as shown below:

Therefore, you have also to enable the Q&A as you see fit during a running meeting in the Meeting Options by completing the following:

Steps

1. As a meeting organizer or co-organizer, click on the three dots “…” to get more options.
2. At the More menu, click on Settings > Meeting Options.

3. In the Meeting Options, scroll down to find “Enable Q&A“, and tick it to enable it, then click on Save as shown below:

It’s wonderful that the Q&A feature has been activated and is now visible in the meeting toolbar above, as illustrated below.

Note: The meeting data is not deleted when the Q&A is taken out of a meeting. You can see all the meeting conversations if you add the Q&A tab back.

Q&A Settings in Microsoft Teams

Before enabling Q&A in your meetings, there are a few crucial options and settings that you should be aware of:

Question and Discussion in Q&A

In Q&A in Microsoft Teams, you can classify your post as a question or a general discussion as below

Actually, there is no big difference between discussion and question, however, it’s a good way to organize and classify the meeting discussion.

Enable Annonymes Q&A in Teams

By clicking on the settings gear icon, you can control the following:

• Allow attendees to ask questions while this feature is enabled.
• Allow attendees to reply to questions while this feature is enabled.
• Allow attendees to ask anonymous questions while this feature is enabled.

Allow Moderation in Q&A

As an organizer, you can allow Moderate Questions, to review questions before publishing or dismissing them.

Where Q&A is stored in Microsoft Teams?

The Q&A messages created as part of the meeting are stored as Yammer messages, For tenants that don’t have an existing Yammer network, the Q&A Yammer network will be created in the United States Yammer region. 

See Also, Where files saved in Microsoft Teams?

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Conclusion

In conclusion, we have explored all you need to know about Q&A in Meetings, and How to enable Q&A in Microsoft Teams.

See Also

• Allow Auto Join Meetings in Microsoft Teams
• You don’t have access to the Teams Admin Center