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Alert students of feedback when assignment is graded.
Students need an alert telling them, or a direct link to graded assignments so they are prompted to read feedback given by a teacher. As it stands. Teachers can put feedback but students have no prompt to read that information or even know that an assignment has been graded.
279 votesThank you all your feedback, but we have this today! When you click ‘Return’ on your student’s assignments, students will get notified directly in Teams in the Activity feed.
You can see this in action here: https://youtu.be/lKMyVPyudY0?t=94
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Ability to remove the assignment tab
We would like to remove the Assignments Tab from Microsoft Teams so that our more gung ho users do not try and utilize this portion of the tool until it can be properly supported through IT and the departments that would be training end users. If the end user does not see it, they will not know it is even an option so there will be no need to field calls or questions.
87 votesIf you’re not planning on using the class functionality in Teams, O365 IT Admins can remove the Assignments app in the Teams Admin Center under Teams apps > ‘Permission policies’.
You can set a user policy (remove it for a set of users) or a global one that removes the Assignments app for everyone in your tenant.
Before you do this, make sure to double check if any faculty are using Assignments. We’ve seen Assignments be used in all sorts of ways successfully, even without students. You can always add back Assignments by removing the policy.
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Assignment Feedback
It would be great if teachers could offer feedback to assignments without having to enter a grade. The assignments is locked from being able to resubmit. If students can get the feedback, make corrections, and then resubmit the assignment teachers would be able to use it better.
72 votesYou can add feedback to assignments at any time. Students can unsubmit, work on the assignment some more, and turn in their work again as long as the Assignment’s ‘Close date’ has not passed.
Learn more about the feedback loop in Teams Assignments here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/review-return-and-turn-in-assignments-using-the-feedback-loop-63e5efdd-be09-47f0-87ea-e8e4bcb45aa4
Learn how to set a Close Date here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-an-assignment-in-microsoft-teams-23c128d0-ec34-4691-9511-661fba8599be -
Manage Assignments - allow edit/delete
To be able to delete assignments, turn back with feedback to students an allow them to review and turn in again.
When you assign points to student's assignment, be able to modify and turn back the assignment to the student.
72 votesYou can both edit and delete assignments in Teams. Here’s how…
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Add a member to an already set assignment
To use this as a school it really needs to have an option to add members to assignments after the assignment has been set. Currently if I have a new student added to the class then I have to delete the assignment and then send it out again.
72 votesWhen new students get added to a Class team, students will get all the assignments that have been assigned to the class.
Note: it may take several minutes for the assignments to distribute to the newly added student(s).
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Add or share assignment to multiple classes / teams
It would be awesome to be able to share the same assignment with multiple teams. As it is, I have to copy/paste my assignment multiple times - sometimes as many as twenty!
56 votesWe’ve had this for a while! Here’s more info on how this works :) https://support.office.com/en-us/article/assign-work-to-multiple-classes-at-once-e7d4eb6d-f2d8-486f-b412-69789bd9d009
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Assignments - Archiving for Reuse
Make assignments archivable, so that I can create a new assignment from an assignment I had used the previous year.
22 votesThanks all. It’s available in Teams and was released quite a while ago. Apologies on our delay on updating it here. Keep the feedback coming :)
Re-use assignments you’ve created in any team (help doc):
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/repost-an-assignment-in-microsoft-teams-f1c81ec0-ac61-49e5-b551-8d6a792f0d7bGordon Chang from Teams
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10 votes
Thanks all. It’s available in Teams and was released quite a while ago. Apologies on our delay on updating it here. Keep the feedback coming :)
Re-use assignments you’ve created in any team (help doc):
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/repost-an-assignment-in-microsoft-teams-f1c81ec0-ac61-49e5-b551-8d6a792f0d7bGordon Chang from Teams
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