Enable Q&A in Teams Meetings via Meeting Options

Q&A in Teams meetings are an excellent way of engaging attendees with structured questions and answers, but adding the Q&A app to the meeting feels a bit clunky. This is about to be solved…

TL;DR:
Teams meetings organisers can soon set up Q&A in their meetings via Meeting Options in advance of the meeting. Great for large or structured meetings and training. Available now on desktop, due November 2022 in the browser.

Details:
Meeting Organisers and Co-organisers can enable Q&A in their meetings through Meeting Options. They can toggle “Enable Q&A” to yes to enable structured conversations in their meeting. When Q&A is enabled, meeting attendees can join their Teams meeting, click the Q&A icon, and ask questions and engage in the discussion.

Moderators (organiser and co-organisers) can choose to enable moderation to review questions before they are published live. 

 Going forward, meeting organisers and co-organisers must use Meeting Options to enable Q&A in their meetings. If there are existing meetings where Q&A was added from the Teams App Store, Microsoft ask that you remove the Q&A app and switch to using Q&A enabled through Meeting Options.

Notes:

• With Q&A available to enabled through Meeting Options, the Q&A app in the Teams App Store will be removed in August 2022
• There is no data lost when switching Q&A from the Teams App Store to enabling via Meeting Options. All questions, conversations, comments, etc. will continue to be available in the Q&A experience enabled via Meeting Options
• Pre-and-post meeting in Teams Calendar: Teams Q&A is only available to attendees during the meeting. Microsoft are working on making Teams Q&A available pre-and-post the meeting and that should be available soon
• Two Q&A icons: If Q&A has been already set up in a meeting via the Teams App Store, then remove the Q&A app that was added from the Teams app store. Instructions on how to remove the Teams App Store Q&A app are below. The Q&A app in the Teams App Store will be removed and Meeting Options will be the only way to add Q&A in Teams meetings

Availability:
Due mid to late July 2022.
Available now on desktop, due November 2022 in the browser.

Related Links and references:
Microsoft Meeting Options Q&A instructions and further information (Microsoft).

Check status:
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97020

Page originally published:
14^th July 2022 and kept up to date.

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