It would be very useful, for a teacher, to have the following features when working with assignments - in addition to the already present "feedback" option:

1. zoom and rotate also images, not only .pdf;


2. write or draw (make annotations) on images and .pdf files;


3. upload a file (image, pdf, office doc,...) together with the feedback - for instance, I could write something in the feedback and then upload a file with the complete solution of a given excercise.

These features could save a teacher a lot of time and, at the same time, make the feedbacks much more effective for students.

See also:
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40035430-be-able-to-rotate-and-zoom-in-on-images-submitted
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/38594053-zoom-when-grading-assignments
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39734716-please-add-hand-writing-marking-to-mark-pdf-and-im

It would be very useful to know the points accumulated per student and the total possible points. It is too cumbersome to download the Excel file and start filtering the score of each activity to make the total sum of points and, furthermore, it is too difficult to know what the total points awarded to all activities are. Thus, if there were 30 activities during a school term and the total of points is 4550, it is too laborious: 1) to know the final score (4550) without having to download the Excel file and find the maximum score for each one of the 30 activities and get the total and 2) know the accumulated score of each student, you have to make a formula and eliminate the columns of the activity feedback. It would be much easier if you gave us a 4000/4550 or 4150/4550 style score for each student

If we have a timed quiz in Teams, the student has no option of knowing how much time is left. When the deadline passes, the student has no option of submitting the form and looses all points.

1. There should be a visible timer / clock showing how much time is left before submission




2. If the student has the form open, at the end of the clock, the form should be auto submitted with the answers that were already given/selected




3. There should be an auto save option for the form, in case the student needs to reload the page/looses connectivity, so that he/she can open the form again and continue answering.

According to current features, opening and closing times & dates can be set for an assignment. It is very useful that if we can set a timer to an assignment. As an example, if we make the assignment available for students from morning 6.00 am to evening 6.00 pm, But the time allocated for the students to complete the assessment is only one hour. so, When ever the students open the Assessment within the available time, a count down timer begins, and what ever they have done is saved automatically and submitted automatically at the end of one hour or if they have completed the assessment before the allocated time period, enable them to submit their assessment.

This method can be used when giving the same assessment for the students in different time zones, then it is not necessary for all the students to log into the system at the same time and doing the test.

In order to assign differentiated tasks or a task to an individual class in a team with multiple classes, we should have the ability to use a Tag to select students instead of having to select them all individually.

This will also mean that if we need to assign assessment notifications and task to the cohort:
- one teacher can quickly create the tasks for each class individually
- each classes teacher and then monitor their class and quickly chase up who hasn't viewed/ submitted items by set dates without having to scroll through all of the students.
- once the task is completed, the classroom teacher can quickly upload feedback/ marks to their students easily

We need to work with handwritten assignments on paper in our college. Though Teams is a great solution for teachers to manage assignments, it accepts digital documents only. Teams also allows freehand correction with a digital pencil in uploaded documents, but this function is lacking for corrections in image-files and pdf-files.

Only 2 functions are missing:

1. We use Microsoft Lens to scan pdf-files. This app is really great, however, scanned pdf-files with this app cannot be submitted or uploaded within the section assignments in Teams.




2. Uploaded pdf-files or images cannot be corrected inline with a digital pencil in Teams.

Note:
We also teach students with migratory background who want to learn German. Amongst these students there are also some who still need to be alphabetized.
Most of these students cannot afford neither a notebook or a tablet nor a digital pencil. Thus, they study using paper and cheap smartphones instead. However, our experience has shown that handwritten assignments are the best training to learn a foreign languages and its alphabet.
Therefore, we would like for our students to use Teams and Lens with whatever device they have to scan and share their texts in the section assignments in Teams.