University to ban private communication between students registered at the university

[Balance123]

A student enrolled at UK university is currently participating in a group project with other students, however there was conflict within the group, which culminated in accusations were made of intimidation, shouting etc in a group meeting of the students. All students involved in this meeting made complaints to the course director and learning support staff and were told that a thorough investigation would take place. The staff have said that all communications between group members should be done only through the Microsoft Teams and for the remainder of the project each member is:

• "only allowed to meet with the rest of the team as a whole"
• "send/receive messages on Teams"
• "work on their own - no other option is allowed."

The staff members have told the group members to leave the WhatsApp group chat the team members had used to communicate project related matters. The university doesn't seem interested in investigating the events of the argument that initiated the complaints, claiming conflicting accounts, but have now employed rather restrictive measures on the group of students.

[Scot22]

In my opinion University is entitled to set criteria for the project.
Not impressed by the uncivilized behaviour. You should be able to maintain respectful behaviour.