Introduction
In Teams, the meeting organizer can now add a questions and answers component to a meeting or webinar. The Q&A app is a robust solution for structured scenarios that organizers can customize with just a few clicks. You can add open or moderated Q&A, mark the best answer for a question, filter responses, enable replies, and more.
Add the Q&A app to your meeting
If you are the meeting organizer, you can add the Q&A component to your existing meeting or webinar by doing the following:
- Select Calendar from the Teams menu.
- From your Teams calendar, locate the meeting/webinar you would like to add a Q&A to and double-click on it to open it.
- From the meeting menu, click on the plus sign icon. This will open the Add a tab menu.
- From the Add a tab menu, select Q&A.
- Click Add.
Q&A App settings
- Select your Q&A options. The checkbox options are:
- Allow attendees to:
- Ask new questions
- Respond to conversations
- Allow organizers to:
- Moderate attendee conversations
- When you are finished, click Save.
- Note: You can enable Moderate attendee conversations at any time but can’t disable it once it’s active. In an unmoderated meeting, attendees’ questions will appear in the Q&A feed immediately.
- The settings can be found afterwards in a panel to the right, if you which to make changes.
Create a Q&A
- Click on Ask a question.
- Type in your question in the Ask a question text field and click on Post.
- The question will be posted. Meeting participants can now Like and Comment with responses to the question.
- After the question is posted, you can still make changes. Click on the More icon (three dots) in the post. The dropdown gives you the option to:
- Edit
- Delete
- Close conversation
- Pin conversation (so the post stays on the top)
Create a discussion
- Click on the Ask a Question icon to find a dropdown where the Start a discussion option is located. Click on Start a discussion.
- Type in a discussion prompt in the Start a discussion text field and click on Post.
- The discussion prompt will be posted. Meeting participants can now Like and Comment with responses to the prompt.
- After the prompt is posted, you can still make changes. Click on the More icon (three dots) in the post. The dropdown gives you the option to:
- Edit
- Delete
- Close conversation
- Pin conversation (so the post stays on the top)