| Announcement ID | MC952893 | Published Date | 12-10-2024 | |
| Service | Microsoft Teams | Last Updated | 12-10-2024 | |
| Category | Stay informed | Expiration Date | 03-10-2025 | |
| Roadmap ID | 417158 | Action Required by Date | ||
| Tags | New feature, User impact | |||
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| A new feature in Microsoft Teams allows moderators to privately reply to attendee questions during events, enhancing communication privacy. It will roll out in January 2025, and meeting organizers should inform their teams. More details will be included in the Q&A documentation update. |
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A new Microsoft Teams feature empowers moderators to respond discreetly to attendee questions during Teams events. This functionality ensures that responses to sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions are not broadcast to the entire audience, allowing for a more tailored and respectful communication experience. When this will happen:General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in early January 2025 and expect to complete in late January 2025. How this will affect your organization:Moderators can privately respond to an attendee's question, and the attendee can reply back to the moderator in private. After this exchange, the moderator can choose to either publish or dismiss the question without the private conversation being visible to other attendees. Moderators also have the option to enable or disable the "Private moderator replies to individual attendees" feature in the Q&A settings, which is only available when Moderation is turned on for the event. By default, this feature is enabled. What you need to do to prepare:Notify the meeting organizers within your organization that this feature will be available for use in meetings, webinars, and town halls. The Q&A public documentation will soon be updated to include further details about this feature. |