Laptop - Meetings & Teams Calls
If you are sharing/presenting your screen to others, whilst in class, in a meeting or using Teams Voice for example, you can negate Teams notifications appearing by switching your user profile on Teams to Do Not Disturb. Follow the Instructions below:
In Microsoft Teams,
Select your user icon in the top right-hand corner
Select 'Available' (or whatever your current status is)
Select 'Do Not Disturb'
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The Microsoft Teams ‘Do ‘Do not disturb‘ status will turn the green ‘Available’ ‘Available’ status indicator to red but but, it will also also block messages and calls from everyone unless they are urgent.
Give users Special Permissions
If you decide that you would like specific people to be able to contact you whilst in Do Not Disturb mode, you can complete this by following the steps below:
Select your user icon again,
Select 'Manage Account'
Next, select 'Privacy'
Then Select 'Manage Priority Access'
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Here you will be able to and users who you would like to receive notifications from whilst in Do Not Disturb mode
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Mobile Phone - Mute Notifications during Non-working Hours
Teams on mobile have a feature called quiet hours; it allows you to specify the hours and days you want to be notified of new messages. For instance, if your workdays end at 5 p.m. and start at 7 a.m., turning on quiet hours from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. will prevent you from being disturbed during those hours.
Turn quiet hours/days on using the following steps:
Open the Teams app and click on the navigation menu on the top left.
Click Notifications.
Click on the bell icon under Block notifications identified as During quiet time in the middle of the screen.
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After you click quite hours, you will have the option to turn it on and a separate option to turn on quiet days
Once you turn on quiet hours, you can set the times you do not want to receive notifications.
Quite days also allows you to choose specific days to keep notifications off.