Turn in assignments on behalf of in Teams for EDU.
Teachers need a way to turn in an assignment on behalf of students who for some reason aren't able to turn it in themselves, or at least change the status to delivered.
Magnus Sandtorv
shared this idea
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.
78 comments
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Anonymous
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I would love to be able to submit it for my students. At my school we were told that we had to accept assignments anyway they could send them to us. So, most of them weren’t turned in via assignments.
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Anonymous
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The need for the teacher to upload is a necessity.
I have a class with 22 students all work is with me but - 16 pieces are on teams, 3 pieces have been emailed, two are on share-point. It is frustrating not having them all in one place.
Also I agree with the comment regarding uploading needing to be made simpler
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Anonymous
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If would be fantastic if teachers could attach a file in the feedback. If students submit work digitally (eg Word document) and feedback is provided on the actual document (to be saved on the document rather than simply attached to the rubric or general feedback), then we could attach the edited document when returning to students.
Is this feature being investigated at all? -
Lesley Brown
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This feature is absolutely crucial if Teams is going to be a long term option for me. All other aspects are perfect but I need to be able to submit the odd piece of work that comes to me via another means - email, chat etc. Please do something about this. I see it has been an issue raised nearly 3 years ago.
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Natasha
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Some of my students just don't have the Internet capability to upload work to teams. It just makes things so much easier to have everyones work in one place. If a student sends me work another way I need to be able to add that to their teams assesments .
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Anonymous
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I've even looked to see if I can add it directly through the Sharepoint site, and while I can copy the file to the "Turn-in" folder, it does not appear in Teams. Not sure what is missing, but even that would be a big help to many teachers.
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Anonymous
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This is reallly helpful
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Emma Hearn
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Please give us the ability to submit work on behalf of a student. Even with all the workarounds you mention (students uploading photos, etc), some students simply will not be able to submit their work this way, and the inability for teachers to submit work into the Teams workflow is a big problem.
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Anonymous
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I need to be able to upload files on behalf of students.eg They took a written mock exam and I couldn't use Teams to return their scanned in marked work..... The lack of this feature has caused me to stop using Teams assignments.
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Anonymous
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Yes, please create a feature so that I can upload their work. This would save loads of time for ones that cannot do it fir whatever reason!
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Anonymous
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Yes.Please fix.
I have 20% of each class unable to upload ( for a number of reasons) I need to be able to upload their work (emailed or physically dropped off) as well as record that they have submitted whilst waiting to mark and grade. -
Anonymous
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Ditto - we are in a rural mountainous area and 10-15% of students just have no internet. They return the completed hard copy where I then scan to a PDF and need to be able to up-load / turn-in on their behalf.
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Anonymous
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The request is for the teacher to be able to submit/attach the work on behalf of the student so that the work goes into the Teams workflow for that student. This is a fundamental need of teachers because students often have issues with uploading their work in Teams and use alternate means to submit assignment files...
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Jenny Warren
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There are too many issues with students not being able to open Teams at any one time, even when they are already logged into Office365. This means they have to e-mail work to their teachers. We simply MUST be able to add their work back in. This feature would also allow us to add things like personalised help sheets and EBI tasks. The combination of these two issues is stopping Teams being a viable option for teachers to rely on.
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R.Hay
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Please do build in a fix for this. It is really annoying.
Ideally, there would be a way to mark as 'partially complete' or 'incomplete' when something is submitted, but not all parts of the task & or they've not put in sufficient effort.
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GIna Gustafson Faena
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For younger students, Teams should think of having a feature like in Myblueprint where students share their work in one click. I teach students who either 1, have an old device, 2 have trouble navigating through all the steps to submit work, need extra help in all learning, 3. don't type on a device and can't write a word document and so they write on paper and would like to submit their work, 4. don't have extra support at home from a parent, and the list could go on. One touch submission. Teacher reviews the work and sends back some feedback in one touch. Voila! easy for student. Easy for teacher and parents. Parents are emailing me work on their student's behalf. I have assignments in many places and I'm frustrated to look for work and have to organize it and I can't even post on behalf of my students.
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Anonymous
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students are emailing assignments to me or sending photos. How can I submit their assignment to their name on Teams?
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Simon Baldiwn
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Teachers need to be able to turn in work for students. For many, the assignment process is confusing and acts as a barrier for learning. We are supposed to be facilitating them, not putting barriers in their way.
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Geale de Vries
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This is what I miss the most in Teams. It is so annoying not to have all the student's work in one place. And there are always a few who have technical issues of some sort that prevent them from handing in their work in the Assignment in Teams.
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Jamie
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I also would like a feature that allows me the teacher to file an assignment against a student who’s perhaps emailed this in as they aren’t able to use Teams.
