Teams Add-In: Get the Q&A app and create Q&As for meetings or webinars


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:

  1. Select Calendar from the Teams menu.
  2. 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.
  3. From the meeting menu, click on the plus sign icon. This will open the Add a tab menu.
    Add tab
     
  4. From the Add a tab menu, select Q&A.
    Add a tab
     
     
  5. Click Add.
    Q&A add app.
     
     

Q&A App settings

  1. Select your Q&A options. The checkbox options are:
    1. Allow attendees to:
      1. Ask new questions
      2. Respond to conversations
    2. Allow organizers to:
      1. Moderate attendee conversations
  2. When you are finished, click Save.
    1. 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.
      Q&A options
       
       
  3. The settings can be found afterwards in a panel to the right, if you which to make changes.

Create a Q&A

  1. Click on Ask a question.
    Ask a question
     
     
  2. Type in your question in the Ask a question text field and click on Post.
    Ask a question text box 
     
     
  3. The question will be posted. Meeting participants can now Like and Comment with responses to the question.
    Posted question
     
     
  4. 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:
    1. Edit
    2. Delete
    3. Close conversation
    4. Pin conversation (so the post stays on the top)
      Question post options drop-down
       
       

Create a discussion

  1. Click on the Ask a Question icon to find a dropdown where the Start a discussion option is located. Click on Start a discussion.
    Start a discussion in dropdown.
     
     
  2. Type in a discussion prompt in the Start a discussion text field and click on Post.
    Start a discussion text box.
     
     
  3. The discussion prompt will be posted. Meeting participants can now Like and Comment with responses to the prompt.
    Posted discussion question.
     
     
  4. 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:
    1. Edit
    2. Delete
    3. Close conversation
    4. Pin conversation (so the post stays on the top)
      Discussion post dropdown options.