MS Teams | Roles of participants and options
The MS Teams has three distinct user roles: Owner, Member, and Guest. Each role comes with different permissions and rights within the team.
In this article you will find information about:
Brightspace user roles in MS Teams team
The roles of participants in Microsoft Teams team are based on the roles that the users have in Brightspace:
| Role in Brightspace course | Default role in MS Teams team |
|---|---|
| Viewer | No role |
| Re-exam student |
Member |
| Student | Member |
| Guest account | Guest |
| Teaching Assistant | Owner |
| Lecturer | Owner |
| Course coordinator | Owner |
|
Course administrator |
Owner |
|
Chair Group Edu Office |
Owner |
For further information about the differences in permissions, please visit: Team owner, member and guest capabilities in teams
Participant roles in MS Teams meeting and their options
Different user roles in MS Teams offer varying options during meetings.
All the participants in a meeting are Presenters, unless you change them from Participants to Attendees.
Organizers can add 10 co-organizers in the meeting. If you want to now more about how to do it and the capabilities that co-organizers have, please visit: Add co-organizers to a meeting in Teams
If you want to now more about how to do it and the capabilities that co-organizers have, please visit: Add co-organizers to a meeting in Teams
The table below is an overview of participant options based on user role in Microsoft Teams as provided by Microsoft (the developer of the tool):
| Options in the MS Teams meeting | Organiser | Presenter | Attendee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can share their webcam and audio | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Can participate in meeting chat | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Can share content | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can privately view a PowerPoint file shared by someone else | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Can take control of someone else's PowerPoint presentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can mute other participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can prevent attendees from unmuting themselves | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can remove participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can admit people from the lobby | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can change the roles of other participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Can start or stop recording | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
For more information on Roles in teams and how to change them, please visit: Roles in a Teams meeting
Rights creating an MS Teams meeting
Each role has different options available when creating a meeting via MS Teams. The table below is an overview of them as provided by Microsoft (the developer of the tool):
| Rights when creating a Meeting | Organiser | Presenter | Attendee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting options | |||
|
✔ |
✖ |
✖ |
|
who can be presenter |
✔ |
✖ |
✖ |
| Polling with MS Forms | |||
|
✔ |
✖ |
✖ |
Rights during an MS Teams meeting
Each role has different options available during a meeting via MS Teams. The table below is an overview of them as provided by Microsoft (the developer of the tool):
| Rights during an MS Teams meeting | Organiser | Presenter | Attendee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakout rooms | |||
|
✔ |
✖ |
✖ |
|
✔ |
✖ |
✖ |
| Polling with MS Forms | |||
|
✔ |
✔ |
✖ |
|
✔ |
✔ |
✖ |
For further information about MS Teams Meeting, please visit: Web-conferencing tool | MS Teams meeting
Creating a meeting in Brightspace, Teams channel or Outlook
The following table shows the different possibilities that you have when you create a meeting in Brightspace, Teams Channel or Outlook:
|
Brightspace |
Teams channel |
Outlook |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Access |
BS Classlist |
Members in the MS Team |
Students & lecturers must be invited |
| Pre-assigning co-organizers |
Not possible |
Possible |
Possible |
| Pre-assigning breakout rooms |
Not possible |
Possible |
Possible |
|
Pre-creating MS Polls |
Possible |
Not possible |
Possible |
|
Integration with Wooclap |
Possible |
Not possible |
Possible |
|
Recording |
In Onedrive of the organizer |
In the Teams file |
In the meeting chat |
|
Chat, sharing screen, raising hand |
Available |
Available |
Available |
Now you know about the participant roles and permissions of MS Teams meetings!
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