Alphabetize students by last name to help with attendance
Please alphabetize students by LAST names as they enter to help with attendance. Thank you
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Anonymous
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS!
Can't we just click on the names and they can order themselves... as per file explorer? I am currently about to check through a list of 222 students on Teams and it's going to take me hours as it is alphabetical.
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Anonymous
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I manage a "team" for every athletic team on our campus. 400 student-athletes, 24 teams. When checking to ensure I have every student-athlete accounted for it is a disaster because I can't sort alphabetically! Please add this ASAP!
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GB
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Why is it taking so long? Get your act together MS
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GillG
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Yes!!!! I have multiple Teams and the manual double-checking required to ensure that everyone is actually an active member is so time consuming - I have members who move from one group to another multiple times a year
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Anonymous
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YES! and what kind of order is used for the 'manage teams' section? That one makes no sense at all!
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Anonymous
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It would be amazing to have an option to sort the participants in a call by alphabetical order. As a teacher we need to mark attendance of a student and sorting them would make this way easier.
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Anonymous
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Oh my god yes! Please!
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M O'Brien
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You can do this without a change in teams. Ask your admin to change the display name of students to surname forename. When it synchronises with teams the participant pane, attendance download and all other areas that display student name will be organised by surname.
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Anonymous
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Allow the list to be sorted and filtered by the teacher, not only in meetings but in Assignments and Grades as well. Plus the ability to do full Boolean search, or at least partial-match search, based on student ID, address, name, nickname, etc would be very helpful.
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Ave Merz
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There should be button where teachers can organize the people list in the meeting in alphabetical order by their last names. A lot of techers have to scramble through the people list because attendance systems like Infinite Campus have people organized by last names. This would make attendance so much easier for teachers.
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Anonymous
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I agree
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Donna Montgomery
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The participant's panel in the meeting as well as the list of members of the team both need to be alphabetized! I don't understand why that is not yet done!
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Stephen Hurst
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Attendance applications display students alphabetically by last name. Teams displays participants alphabetically by first name. This makes it very difficult to take attendance for larger classes. Wastes classroom time.
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Philip Savoie
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The choice to sort by last name or first name is a must have! The sort function of anything should have multiple options.
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Anonymous
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that's unbelievable not to implement such an important function!
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Anonymous
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Yes please alphabetise the names in Teams channels, thank you
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Gwen
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Dear Microsoft engineers:
Could you kindly make the TEAMS meetings 'student participants' list, alphabetical according to SURNAME, not first name. This would help teachers immensely and would align with ALL boards of educations student lists. Every student list is surname first. When we do attendance manually in TEAMS, it takes an absolute eternity and it is driving us all nuts...because in TEAMS meetings, the participants names are currently listed according to first name alphabetically. This makes it very difficult for us when we are dealing with large classes of 35 plus students and we are cross referencing with a manual class list that is ALWAYS alphabetical according to surname.
Thank you kindly for considering these changes. Take good care.
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Anonymous
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Not only students (name and last name), but also the teams' names could be ordened alphabetically.
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Anonymous
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Hello,
I am a teacher using TEAMS to teach virtually
I appreciate how Microsoft has responded to the educational community and made some helpful changes.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can the participant list be rearranged to put participants in order by LAST name so we aren't going crazy trying to transfer attendance into our district SIS -
David Hofman
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I agree with all others below. I have 80+ people teams with staff members that I need to update on a monthly basis. Not having the ability to sort by Name, title or location definitely adds unnecessary complexity to managing members.
Thank you for your consideration