Add Q&A to a Teams Meeting or Webinar
You can add Q&A at any time in a Teams meeting. The instructions that follow are for adding Q&A when you create a meeting.
Use the Teams or Outlook calendar to create a meeting. If you’re in Outlook, make this a Teams meeting by clicking the Teams Meeting button on the toolbar.
Select the Meeting Options button.
Select the checkbox next to the Q&A option.
4. Select Save to save your settings and return to the calendar event.
It’s a good idea to enter a first comment in the Q&A thread to help people get started. To do this, select Q&A from the top menu of the meeting, and then add a post.
Moderated or unmoderated meetings
In an unmoderated meeting, attendees’ questions will appear in the Q&A feed immediately. If you’ve turned on moderation, you (as an organizer or presenter) will see three headings in the Q&A thread. They are:
In review (all new questions)
Published (questions that can be seen by attendees)
Dismissed (questions that have been reviewed but not published and so won’t be seen by attendees).
Configure the presenter role
Q&A roles mirror the roles set for the meeting itself. Meeting roles can be configured in Meeting Options, which only the meeting organizer and co-organizer can access. To learn more about configuring meeting roles in Teams, see Change participant settings for a Teams meeting.
Run a moderated meeting
When moderating is enabled, all new questions will appear in the In review tab. Any moderator (the organizer or the presenter) can review and either publish or dismiss questions. Published questions will be moved to the Published tab and visible to all attendees. Dismissed question will be moved to the Dismissed tab. Dismissed questions can be published later, if desired.
Organizer and presenter experience
There are two types of core experiences – Unmoderated and Moderated Q&A:
Unmoderated Q&A—enables all attendee questions to be immediately posted to the Q&A feed.
Moderated Q&A—requires questions to be reviewed by a moderator (the meeting presenter or organizer) before being published for everyone to see and comment on.
When moderation is enabled, all inbound questions go to the In review tab. Here, they can be published (and moved to the Published feed for all attendees to see) or dismissed, where they will move to the Dismissed tab. If needed, they can later be restored or published.
Attendee experience
Q&A is designed for meetings that require more structure. Whether a meeting is moderated or not, attendees will always see only a single Q&A feed. They can post, reply (if replies are enabled), and react to any question in the Q&A feed.
If moderation is enabled, when attendees submit questions, they will be notified that the question has been received and will be published if the moderator approves.
After the meeting
The questions and answers in your Q&A session will continue to be available for review in the Q&A tab in the Teams calendar event after the meeting.