Published Dec 10, 2024
Microsoft Teams is introducing a feature that allows moderators to reply privately to attendee questions during events. The rollout begins in late January 2025 and should be completed by early February 2025. This feature is enabled by default and can be managed in Q&A settings.
Updated January 21, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 417158.
When this will happen:
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late January 2025 (previously early January) and expect to complete in early February 2025 (previously late January).
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.