In Google Meet, your teachers can mute a student's microphone using the student tile's
button. But it's a temporarily mute. the student can unmute by themselves with their microphone button at the bottom bar. It does not prevent certain students over-talking and interrupting the class.
The article shows how Safe Doc allows your teachers to force mute annoying talkative students and keep the lecture quiet and smooth. Muted students cannot unmute themselves for the rest of lecture session unless they refresh the page and rejoin the meeting.
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Use the magic /micoff chat command
Safe Doc introduces a magic chat command for your teachers to force mute some students. Here is how it works.
- (Teacher) Find the email address of the talkative student
- (Teacher) Open the chat side panel
- (Teacher) Type /micoff [email protected]. That is the /micoff command, a space and the student email.
- (Teacher) Click send.
- (Student) The microphone is muted and the microphone button is disabled (greyed out). The student cannot unmute by themselves.
You can find a short demo video below. The top window is the teacher. The bottom two windows are 2 students. After the teacher types in the chat command and send. The bottom right student's microphone is muted. The microphone button is disabled, so the muted student cannot unmute them for the rest of the session.
How to configure Safe Doc?
First of all, make sure you have deployed Safe Doc and read Safe Doc Configuration.
The magic command is managed by the policy EnableMeetMicOffCommand. By default the policy is OFF, i.e. the chat command is not activated. You need to add and set the policy with value true in your configuration.
"EnableMeetMicOffCommand": {
"Value": true
}
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