Roles in a teams meeting

If you're organizing a meeting with multiple attendees, you may want to assign roles to each participant to determine who can do what in the meeting. 

There are two roles to choose from: presenter and attendee. Presenters can do just about anything that needs doing in a meeting, while the role of an attendee is more controlled. 

Below are the specific capabilities of each role:

Capability	Organizer	Presenter	Attendee
Speak and share video
Participate in meeting chat
Share content
Privately view a PowerPoint file shared by someone else
Take control of someone else's PowerPoint presentation
Mute other participants
Prevent attendees from unmuting themselves
Remove participants
Admit people from the lobby
Change the roles of other participants
Start or stop recording
Start or stop live transcription
Manage breakout rooms
Change meeting options
Add or remove an app
Use an app*
Change app settings

* – Some apps may limit what certain roles can do.

Change meeting roles

Before a meeting

You'll need to send out the meeting invite before you can assign roles.

Once you've done that, go to Calendar , double-click the meeting you just created, and select Meeting options.

This will bring you to a web page, where you'll see a few choices under Who can present?

Who can present?	What happens
Everyone	Anyone who has access to the meeting link will join the meeting as a presenter.
People in my organization	Only people in your org will be presenters. External participants will join as attendees.
Specific people	Only people you choose from the list of invitees will be presenters. Everyone else will join as attendees.
Only me	Only the organizer will be a presenter. All other participants will join as attendees.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

• You'll need to send your meeting invite directly to anyone you want to select as a presenter.

• The role of the meeting organizer can't be changed.

Note: The ability to select specific presenters isn't yet available for channel meetings. 

During a meeting

There are two ways to change someone's role while a meeting is in progress:

• Go to Calendar ,double-click the meeting, and select Meeting options. Use the dropdown menu for Who can present? to select a new presenter.

Note: If the meeting is recurring, any change you make in Meeting options will apply to all meeting occurrences.

• Select Show participants in the meeting controls to see a list of all the people in the meeting.
  Hover over the name of the person whose role you want to change and select More options. From there, select Make a presenter or Make an attendee.

Notes: 

• If the meeting is recurring, role assignments made in this way will only apply to the current meeting. For future occurrences, participants will keep the role assigned to them on the Meeting options page.

• If someone exits the meeting and then rejoins it later, they'll rejoin with the last role they were assigned.