Returned assignments should show up as "Graded" or as "Needs Revised."
When I return an assignment to a student for any reason, it just says "Returned." There should be an easy way for the student to see if the assignment has been "Graded" or if it "Needs Revised" so that the student knows there is more they need to do.

Thanks for all your feedback on this request. We are currently looking at this feature , stay tuned for updates
195 comments
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Donna Montgomery commented
This would be awesome! When I start with a new group of students, we go over how they will get the message the assignment is returned after I have looked at it. But I regularly will have students message me asking why it was returned instead of actually checking it themselves! The ability to assign different messages to return to work… Such as graded or do over… Would be awesome
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Diana commented
Redo would be a great option
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Anonymous commented
I totally agree! We need to have a second option when returning. AND returned work for correction/completion should go back into the students "to do" assignments and not stay in completed.
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Anonymous commented
We NEED this ability! Students can't even see the grade and feedback without clicking on the assignment!
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Jo Woodhead commented
This is exactly my problem too. If I don't return the work, the child is not prompted to look at it at all. A lot of wasted time could be eliminated by adding ' Return for Revision' as an aternative to ' Return completed'
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Mark commented
This would be a huge improvement to my use of Teams. As discussed below, so many students submit incomplete work which needs to be returned for improvements. When I do this it still shows as returned, so I have to manually work through each assigment student by student to work out who falls under which category and which student may have updated their work for further review. A workflow cycle which enabled you to push it back to the assigned status (where no work has been completed) or improvement status (where it could be reviewed and updated by the student) would help hugely.
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Anonymous commented
Useful to stop students handing nothing
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Morgan commented
Children are often turning in blank assignments, and trying to keep track of who has ACTUALLY completed an assignment and which assignments are marked as 'completed' because I have sent them back asking for them to complete their work. Work that needs to be completed needs to be put back into the children's 'Assigned' section or else they'll miss it.
The school I'm at has children as young as 7 using Teams for their home learning - it really needs to be as clear as possible to children when they need to go back and complete an assignment.
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Andrew Proffitt commented
Students are frequently turning in blank or incomplete assignments so that it appears to their parents (in the weekly summary email or if they look at the student's assignment list directly) that the assignment has been completed/handed in. We urgently need a way to return incomplete work to the student such that it is moved back into their 'assigned'/to do list and shows up as incomplete (to the student and also parents looking at the summary email).
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Anonymous commented
1) Don’t allow nothing to be handed in.
2) allow teachers to select “redo”. -
Anonymous commented
A great idea! Please.....?
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Di commented
I second that,, many of my students loose track of late assignments as it was moved to (completed) after I return them to fix their work!
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Anonymous commented
Either a REDO or NEEDS Revision Section is needed.
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Anonymous commented
In order for students and their parents to quickly find assignments that need completion or revision, a REDO Assignment section is needed. Currently, if they don't look at the Returned Assignments and feedback, they aren't aware there is a problem unless they view their grades.
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molly commented
Or could be marked "Incomplete" and have a new section for that.
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Anonymous commented
Definitely
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Anonymous commented
Please create this option! Students turning in blank work to fool their parents is becoming a huge problem!
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Jody Branting commented
This is the biggest flaw of assignments in Teams. There must be a clear way to return assignments that then appear in the to-do list of students rather than in completed. It’s far too easy for students to tell their parents they did the work because it’s in completed assignments when nothing was turned in. I can’t hold students accountable with no way to return work for corrections. PLEASE fix this!
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Ryan Wolf commented
Adding the option to return an assignment back to the assigned section would solve so many problems for the students. Please consider doing this.
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Amanda Yates commented
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE allow teachers the option to send a returned assignment back to the Assignment section instead of the Completed section. This would be so beneficial so that students could easily find work that needs fixed or has been turned in blank. Students, parents, and teachers are frustrated. Please fix this.