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Integrate Assignments with calendar

It would be very useful for communication with parents to get a link of the dates assignments that they can add in their Phone Calendar (or Outlook calendar,...). Students also love to be able to see that on their phone home screen. No excuses...! ;)

When an assignment is created in a class, it only shows up in the assignment tab within that class. In Classroom when an assignment was created it also showed in the students’ calendars. This would be a great addition especially if students are in multiple classes they’ll be able to see all their assignments in their calendar.

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Julie shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
working on it  ·  Adminjfederic (Admin, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Hello wonderful educators and students! I read a report recently that nearly 750M students (of the worlds 1.6B students) attend schools that were closed in October due to the global pandemic. Please know that your Microsoft team is listening hard to the needs of this community.

Regarding assignments integration with Calendar, we have made significant progress and look forward to making this available everyone as soon as possible.

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  • Tamjidul Abedin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be an absolute game changer. We are currently getting our students to install Outlook, Office and Teams apps on their home devices as a whole school push. To be able to set 'assignments' where the deadline syncs with their calendar would be the dream ... I am sure they will do this, its a no brainer

  • eleonora commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be really usefull for both students and teachers to integrate teh assignments in calendar. students would have a big help in their organization and could better control the deadlines!!
    hopefully it willbe possible soon!

  • Mark Burbidge commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @jfederic

    1) Students should be able to drag assignments around a bit (never pushing them back beyond due date, or before now). By default, putting them on the calendar the day BEFORE due date would be ideal (with an exception for an overnight task)

    2) If a task is not marked as complete and the deadline is passed, students should be prompted 'is this done, if so mark as complete; if not - hand it in!'

    3) A 'request extension' button for the student would be nice!

    4) It'd be good if a teacher could set a 'mark by' date which would inform how things were displayed on THEIR calendar/task list... if using a task list model, then de-emphasise until due date is past.

    5) Also, default dates are good, e.g. For THIS class, work is ALWAYS due on thursday and must be marked by 6pm Friday. For THAT class, if set on weds, default is due friday, if set on monday, default is due weds (Etc)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Sur Skype, le parametrage permet de fixer la periode a l'issu de laquelle le statut change en "absent", dommage de ne pas avoir prevu le meme parametrage pour Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I hope this feature is something teachers can toggle on or off with options for showing by date assigned or date due.

  • Tracey Rowley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is great news! Thank you for the update, our hope is that this is available when we resume school in January! Crossing my fingers!

  • Hannah Pettit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this function? This would be excellent for students as we roll our teams to replace specific homework platforms like SMHW

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