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Add ability for Parents/Gaurdians to view assignments, etc.

Can we get a parents' app to see when their child's teacher creates an assignment next please?

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Scott Galloway shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  AdminJustin Chando (Product Manager, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

We’re excited to announce that the Weekly guardian email digest is now available!

With this feature enabled, Teams will automatically send parents/guardians a weekly email summary of past and upcoming assignments.

How to get started:
1. Setup Parent and Guardian Sync on Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) and bulk add all your guardian emails: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/schooldatasync/parent-contact-sync

2. Then O365 Admins can enable the ‘Weekly guardian email digest’ setting inside the new Assignments settings in the Teams Admin Center. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/expand-teams-across-your-org/assignments-in-teams

We can’t wait to hear your feedback.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I hope an update is provided soon. I work for a very larger school system and it is really hard to get teachers to buy in when they don't have a way to connect parents.

  • Rick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Justin, can you please provide an update on the status of releasing this feature?

  • DJMunson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Your "csv" method is too convoluted and difficult to complete. When will this feature be live? We really need this for our parents. And soon.

  • A McPherson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any way it can be done without using School Data Sync???

    School Data Sync isn't available to Vic Department Schools here in Australia. I understand this is a common issue with schools that are among mega large tenants

  • Sam Roberts commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Much looked forward feature! Appreciate the efforts that went into this Justin & the team👍🏽

  • Tino P commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    No new announcements on this feature.
    Has this new feature been abandoned?
    I do remember the September announcement about a guardian mail digest and the announcement of Parent Contact Sync in SDS.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this? You said in September we'd have a update in a couple of weeks... it's now April... 2019.

  • Fleischer Sára commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be really great to have a "Parent" role, as we have Member, owner and Guest. For us, Parent should be more than guest and less than Member.

    It would be great if parents would have contribute to the chat, see some shared documents and participate, alse share them, be able to watch streem chanels (like videos about school events etc). As we see parent are also citizens of the school, but with other interests. This feature would be crutial to migrate school communities from facebook and youtube

  • J Worth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there any news on this? We are really keen on getting this up and running.

  • Robyn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We were hoping this feature would be available before the end of the semester. Any additional updates?

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