We are excited to announce the 3×3 video view has been rolled out 100% to for Windows and Mac Clients. If you aren’t seeing 3×3 yet, please logout and log back in to the client.

We realize 3×3 is a start, but not good enough… as mentioned, we are continuing to work to include more videos during a meeting, innovating on designing the layout that makes sense to classrooms and other types of meetings, as well as enabling support for mobile devices. Hence, the “partially done” status.

Please see documentation here: https://support.office.com/article/using-video-in-microsoft-teams-3647fc29-7b92-4c26-8c2d-8a596904cdae

Enjoy!
Gordon Chang from Teams

Thank you everyone for the feedback on bringing Assignments to the Teams Calendar! We know how important this is to the experience and are working on how to best deliver this functionality to all the students and educators in our community.

Thanks again for your feedback on this. The team has begun working on an option requiring everyone other than the meeting organizer to go thru the lobby. We will continue to evaluate our best option to release with increased priority.

If, in addition to a per meeting control, you are looking for admin level control to prevent students from starting any meeting or any calls without educators present, and want to apply this control regardless of whether a meeting organizer remembers to change the lobby option, please vote on this UV item – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39962347

Gordon Chang from Teams

This feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.

Thanks for all of the feedback on this one. We are reviewing how we can improve notifications around Assignments in Teams. Please keep the feedback coming!

Thank you for the feedback and waiting for this feature with patience. We have enabled download of a meeting attendance list during a meeting. This is released for general availability. Please note this feature is turned off by default, and needs to be enabled via admin policy.

See documentation for this feature here: https://support.office.com/article/download-attendance-reports-in-teams-ae7cf170-530c-47d3-84c1-3aedac74d310

Note: We are continuing to work on enabling download after a meeting has concluded, as well.

Thanks.

Thank you all for your feedback and comments, we hear you loud and clear. 
 
To best support our Microsoft 365 Education customers worldwide and accommodate the new growth and demand during these unprecedented times we have made a temporary change to the Assignments functionality when accessing from the Assignments tab on the left app bar. When growth stabilizes, we will absolutely revisit the implications of this design and determine the best course of action based on input from you, our community of educators and students. 

Thank you so much for sharing your feedback and for your understanding. Please know that our engineering team is working around the clock to make sure everyone around the world can learn using Microsoft Teams.

You can view more information about this new functionality here: https://support.office.com/article/view-and-navigate-your-assignments-student-a206bde9-8bb3-4e38-a745-0f9a6f9eb6ce.

This feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.

This feature request is being reviewed by the feature team.

Related to this, our team is working on the “Wait in lobby” feature where it requires everyone other than the meeting organizer to go thru the lobby. Feel free to follow this other UserVoice item:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39962434

Thank you all for your continued feedback on this feature! We are still evaluating options, so for now the ‘Posts’ tab remains the default first tab for every team.

Great suggestions so far in the comments, but please do continue to share how you would use this feature so we can better understand the use case for our planning.

This feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.

If you’re looking for the ability to recording meetings in private channels, please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39958744

Gordon Chang from Teams

Hi all, thanks for the feedback thus far on attendance tracking.

We would love further details from you to better understand what you are looking for in an attendance tracking feature and to address this as fast as possible:

1. Are you looking to “add a tab”? (original request)
2. Are you looking for a Gradebook-like experience to track student attendance throughout the class?
3. Will this be used primarily for online classes and online training, or needed for physical classrooms too?
4. If you would like the ability to download the student attendance list from within a Teams meeting, could you please upvote this related UserVoice feedback: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39969796

We look forward to hearing from you!

Gordon Chang from Teams

Thank you for all of the feedback around this feature! We are reviewing what the best path forward is for this.

Just so everyone knows in the meantime, teachers can absolutely review any student attached or distributed work in Assignments even if students have not clicked the ‘Turn in’ button. Some of the comments also mention that the work might not be done digitally and submitted a different way, students can also Turn in the assignment without attaching any files/resources or can use the Teams mobile app to take a photo of their paper-based work to submit digitally.

Finally, when you return the assignment as a teacher (even without the student turning in) the feedback loop is also closed. Hope this helps.

Thanks for sharing your voice and passion. We are actively working on improvements in this area. Stay tuned.

Gordon Chang from Teams

Great suggestion for all STEM classes! I’ve moved this feature to ‘under review’.

The team is making progress on showing Office 365 group calendars in Teams. We will share more details as we have them.

Meanwhile, feel free to share what types of meetings do you create in the group calendars for classes and staff?

Gordon Chang from Teams

I’m very happy to announce that the Class Materials folder is now available on iOS devices! Go to the Microsoft Teams app for iPhone and iPad to now see the Class Materials folder.

We are working on making this available on Android.