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Group Assignments

Sometimes I like to have my students turn in their assignment as a group, so I only read and grade one paper from a group of 3 or 4 students. It would be great if Teams Assignments could support that. So that either the students or the teacher (or best them both) can choose who this assignment is for/from.

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  • Helena commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    On a university level, it is extremely common for students to work in groups and turn in a shared output. At the moment, Teams offers no support whatsoever for this: not tracking of groups, no shared submissions, no shared grading. If you look at LMS, it is a standard feature there, because they actually understand the needs of their target group.

  • William Sullivan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For sure this would be stunning, when we're completely learning and working from home in higher education, we're very much more dependent upon groups working together to complete assignments, though of course, only one student submits their assignment. In this case, we need to duplicate, triplicate marks accordingly for their peers, when the idea of a group submission and group marking, would significantly streamline these processes.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    YES!! I can only distribute to the whole class individually or to the whole class to collaborate. I would like to be able to create groups (or students be able to) and then distribute (or even send assignments) to the GROUPS. And these groups should be able to change, since there are several group activities and not always the same group. Gets complicated with the current setup.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    An advanced feature would be a rubrik for the group as a whole and a seperate rubrik for group members.

  • Emma commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm also hoping for a group assignment function. Would be great if the students themselves can register who is in the group when they submit their assignment (this would help us in situations where you divide into groups, but maybe one person is ill or for antoher reason not taken part in the groupwork). Then you can write feedback to the whole group and the assignment will appear in the overall assignment overview. Please please please fix this!

  • Maggie McDonnell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Another vote/plea for group assignment functionality. I teach in a university Professional Writing program, and part of the program profile is collaborative work. After all, as another commenter has observed, in the "real world" of professional writing and content creation, everyone works in groups. Our educational platforms should reflect the learning objectives--we need group assignments.

  • Ted Mackay commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have multiple group projects and it would be great to be able to give a grade and comment to the group as well as the ability to make individual comments to someone in the group.

  • N.L. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Implementing this would make my life as a teacher so much easier. Please make sure that this is implemented soon as it makes using other apps we are technically not allowed to use in our classrooms obsolete.

  • Wendy Healy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be great. I put together a bit of a work around by using a link to the Class Notebook Collaboration space, but that isn't as easy to use. I would rather this as an option.

  • Fabian Bartsch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If this is finally implemented, I would ditch most of the other learning platforms. Currently, the lack of group assignments is a major barrier for Teams in higher education.

  • Ezra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As a student, this seems really fun, but I feel like the group should be able to create video and voice chats if this is implemented. It would get really confusing otherwise.

  • Becky Gentile commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In business, we are always collaborating, but to think that we are still pushing for individual participation in the classroom is archaic. If we want to ensure our students understand how to collaborate and partner well and prepare them for higher ed as well as the job market, we need to have them working more as teams and less as individuals. Please update the application to make this a feasible option.

  • Ted Mackay commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Assignments are typically done in small groups in vocational training. This feature would be very valuable for quickly assessing the groups.

  • Marcus Schultz-Bergin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I currently give each student group its own 'private channel' within our class 'Team'. It seems the system should be able to allow us to select "channel submission" or something like that, which would require just 1 assignment from someone in the channel (or 'from the channel' collectively) and evaluating it would be reflected on every member of the group's grade

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