Assign Assignments to specific channels
It should be possible to assign Assignments to specific channel(s). Now, each Assignment is posted in the general channel.
Maurus Birrer
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Now in Teams Assignments, you can choose the channel where you’d like notifications for this assignment to post. This allows you to keep student work and discussion organized by unit, topic, or subject.
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Colin
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This update is great however MS you may not realise the number of lecturers/teachers that use private channels as a means of separating students. If not being considered, please consider the option for assignments to be added to the respective "private" channels.
Keep those changes coming guys, its getting so much better lately.
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Colin
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Is this option going to be associated with Private Channels, it should be!
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ssweeney602
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@Justin Chando, it will be important for Microsoft to continue to develop this aspect as it is a huge limiting feature. Teachers need the ability to either create groups within assignments and assign to groups (typing in 30 kids names each time you want to assign something is not efficient) or to have a separate Assignments Tab in the channels. Here are two examples of why that is important for schools. First, I teach the same content to 120 different students through 6 different class groups. They all need access to the same resources, files and assignments, but I have them in class on different days and at different times. To avoid confusion, I need to have various due dates for various groups of student for one assignment. I also want to look at assignment data from individual class groups rather than trying to find various kids from one group throughout an alphabetical list of 120 kids. The second example is a group of teachers teaching 120 students through one Team, while different groups can work in different channels, there is no way for a teacher to easily assess assignments for just their students unless each time an assignment is created, the teacher has to add each student individually to the assignment, this is too time consuming, so being able to assign to a Group of students or a channel that is private to a specific group of students would be efficient. You might be asking, why not have separate Teams for each class, yes, this is what our school does, but it is very inefficient because we have to share resources across 6 different Teams, we have to distribute OneNote pages to 6 different Notebooks (which also has to be done individually rather than being able to select multiple Notebooks to copy to at once.), we have to post in 6 different Post sections (this one we can at least post to several at once, but not if there is an attachment involved and you want it to be organized into a folder!)
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Anonymous
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Posting to specific Channels is ok, But as Long as we cannot assign to groups, it is neccessary to Post to Private channels.
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Anonymous
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Not so great news, if you can't have an assignment specific to a channel, but only to a team. How do you account for a class of 30 split into 5 different groups where the work (assignment) is different for each?
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Anonymous
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It's crucial to be able to assign to channels rather than a whole class - otherwise every lesson when I set work I'm typing in the names of all 30 students (to select them from the year-group Team) rather than just selecting the channel for their class which would save a *lot* of time. Please fix this!! It's taking 5 minutes per class, so c.20 minutes per day every day, and school policy means we can't have Teams for each class so there's no workaround. You would be my heroes!
ETA - simply posting the notifications to a particular channel isn't a solution, because it means the assignment is still set out to every student in the team, so 150 students get set work they *don't* need to do, and this clogs up their assignments tab making it more difficult for them to see what they *do* need to do! -
Anonymous
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Sadly that does not work if I want to give assignment to specific students and not whole class..
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Anonymous
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Assigning tasks to seperate channels is a GREAT idea. How is the progress about that issue?
Is there any official statement from MS? -
Anonymous
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It is important not to limit the teachers by prohibiting add in of assignemnts for all channels!!!!!!. I can understand Microsoft has the idea how to do it. But if we do not share it.... Please do not force us to do things we do not like doing (again nd again). Assigning tasks is a natural thing to do with teams, sub- teams etc.
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Anonymous
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Just do it Microsoft! I've had to create 3 pointless teams in one day because channels are so half baked. let us use them for differentiation please!
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Kieren Moore
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It is great that you can announce the assignment by Channel, but I think the point is that in an education environment a Team may host several classes each with their own channel and it should be possible to set assignments to a subset of the whole cohort, either within a channel or by using tags, without specifying each student individually
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Anonymous
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I have students working in ability groups. If I want to assign them work that is unique to them, I can only add it to the general page with a unique title. I created the Channels so I could differentiate the learning of my students. The assign feature is too limited. This is frustrating.
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Eve
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I'd like to create an assignment for an individual student who has SEN within a lesson channel. When I created the assignment for this student, I'm unable to select their lesson channel to post this assignment. Instead it's posted in General. This is very fustrating as I need their work 'within' this lesson channel NOT in the General area. Is there a way around this please??
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Anonymous
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I have noticed that when I create an assignment, and forget to assign it to the proper channel right away, I cannot modify it after I have his "assign." I would like to be able to go into the "edit assignment" page and change the channel it is assigned to. Do you know if/when Microsoft might make this possible?
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Anonymous
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Unfortunately this doesn't really help as much as it seems. I would like to be able to assign an assignment to the members of a private channel so that the students in that private channel, and - all additional students that would added before the deadline of the assignment - could automatically be assigned the assignment.
At university we teach more than one group and there are often 50+ students per group. Right now I create teams based on the class I teach (3rd year litterature for instance) and then create private channels for each of my groups.
When I want to assign homework to group 1, I have to pick out the 50 students of group 1 to assign them their work, out of the 150 students who I teach the same class to.
Our students also move around quite a lot. And sometimes our lists aren't exactly up-to-date. Students may arrive in our class when an assignment has already been assigned. I'd like to be able to simply add them to the private channel corresponding to the group they are in and know that all current assignments that have been assigned to the members of that private channel have now also been assigned to my new student.
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Anonymous
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I echo the other requests. Please make it so we can either rename the general channel or we can set up a channel with the assignments tab on it.
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Kjell Antvort
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The "solution" posted on the 16. of June does not fully resove the issue until a class can be properly devided into/assigned a group, thereby doing away with the need to pick students from a list upun assigning an assignment.
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María José Novillo
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But now is not possible to assign assignments to private channels. It would be great if it was possible.
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Amara Koop
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This doesn't quite meet our needs. It would be good to be able to assign an Assignment to all students in a specific channel, rather than having to hunt through a class list to find only the students in that channel.
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Donna Montgomery
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This is great, but it would be better if we could do that for multiple classes at the same time. Currently, we can only change the channel that assignments are posted for if we are posting to one class. I teach 8 classes in a Middle School setting and to put the same assignment in 8 different classes is very tedious. Alternatively, if I could rename the General Channel that could solve the problem of the assignment notification! Changing one of these items would be great.