Microsoft Teams will allow participants in meetings to vote the most important questions in chats

Microsoft Teams will allow users to vote on the most critical questions and sort them by the highest votes in meetings and Q&As. According to a recent entry to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the new capability will allow moderators to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and answer them.

The capability will also allow moderators of these meetings to move outdated or irrelevant questions to a separate feed so as not to disturb the meeting.

Here’s what the entry says:

Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees.

One advantage of this new capability is that the Redmond-based tech giant will make it available to all devices, including desktop, iOS, Android, and Macs. This will ensure that no one gets left behind in such a meeting and that users from all places can vote on important questions.

Another perk is that the ability to vote questions in Microsoft Teams will save a lot of time and unnecessary feedback or back-and-forth with participants to decide which questions are more important.

However, we’ll have to wait a few months before it becomes available, as Microsoft states that the feature will only be released in January 2025.

In other news, regarding essential capabilities, Microsoft will make the useful Intelligent Meeting Recap optional and admins can disable it from meetings entirely.