{"id":1360,"date":"2021-01-07T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2021\/01\/07\/introducing-new-policy-wizard-to-easily-apply-admin-policies-in-teams-for-education\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:45:48","slug":"introducing-new-policy-wizard-to-easily-apply-admin-policies-in-teams-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2021\/01\/introducing-new-policy-wizard-to-easily-apply-admin-policies-in-teams-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing new policy wizard to easily apply admin policies in Teams for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re excited to introduce the Microsoft Teams for Education policy wizard<\/a>, now available in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center. IT admins can now easily apply education tailored policies for a safe learning environment for students, educators and staff. The policy wizard enables you to quickly and easily apply the most relevant set of policies for students at a global (Org-wide default) level and apply a custom policy set to a group of educators and staff tailored to their needs.<\/p>\n

To control how Teams behaves in your environment and meet your educational requirements, it is necessary to apply policies in Teams, such as calling policies, meeting policies, and messaging policies. Each policy area can be customized to reflect your special needs. Previously IT Admins needed to gain familiarity with the relevant policies and granularity of applying these policies.<\/p>\n

Now the policy wizard identifies the most relevant set of education tailored policies to help reduce your operation time to apply these policies and ensure a safe and focused learning environment.<\/p>\n

There are two sets of policies. One is for students, who will have more restrictive policies, reducing their risks of receiving inappropriate levels of access. And second is for educators and staff, who will have more permissive policies to enable them to be successful in the class. For example, allow educators to schedule meetings and restrict students from doing so.<\/p>\n

If your school or university is new to Teams, the wizard automatically starts. Otherwise, you can start the wizard any time from the Teams admin center dashboard by clicking on Quick Setup<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"Quick<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting into the policy wizard, you can choose between set of policies based on educational institution type (Primary or Secondary<\/strong> or Higher education<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\"Create<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Search for and select a group that contains your educators and staff, and then click Next. If you don\u2019t have any groups set up yet for your educators and staff, create a group<\/a> and then re-run the wizard.<\/p>\n

\"Select<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, you can only select one group. Educators and staff in the group you selected will be assigned a set of custom policies<\/a> tailored to their needs. This set of policies is separate from the policies applied to students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review your selections and click \u201cApply\u201d \u2013 simple as that.<\/p>\n

\"Review<\/span><\/p>\n

A few other key pieces of information to know and consider:<\/p>\n