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Popout Chat
Skype for Business 2016 had the ability for separate chats to be in separate windows. It would be cool if this was possible for chats within teams.
274 votesHooray! Multi-Window chat has been a long-awaited feature, and it is rolled out fully to the general public. Please be sure to “check for updates” and restart your client if you aren’t seeing it.
For more information, please visit https://support.office.com/en-us/article/pop-out-a-chat-in-teams-cff95cb0-34af-423f-8f69-fe9106973790.
Note: Multi-Window Meetings is tracked in this item: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/37031683
Enjoy!
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Gradebook/markbook for classes
There should be a gradebook which automatically records results from assignments. A Gradebook is needed to show ALL the students grades for ALL the assignments. Something with weighting and totaling of selected assignments.
212 votesGreat news, the Grades tab is now available worldwide! Each of your class teams now has a Grades tab where you can view assignments at a glance as well as track how individual students in your class are progressing. Use the Grades tab to get an overview of your class, access data quickly, open, and return student work. Try it out today!
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TurnItIn Integration
Please reach out to TurnItIn to develop an app that works with TurnItIn.
The 'assignments' functionality is fine for primary schools. Secondary schools need better integration with TurnItIn.
206 votesTurnitin is available in Microsoft Teams for built-in similarity checks on student assignments. This option streamlines the grading process, while reinforcing to students the importance of creating authentic work.
Note: A Turnitin license is required in order to use the integration with Assignments in Teams. If you have a Turnitin subscription, IT Admins can sign up to enable the integration.
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existing classnotebooks
It would be really helpful to be able to sync Teams with preexisting class notebooks in OneNote.
206 votesYou can now set up a Class/Staff Notebooks in Teams using content from your existing notebooks! Give it a try as you setup a new class or staff team.
Thank you to everyone for your feedback!
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Bring the waffle menu into teams online experience
Every app in O365 should have the waffle menu visible (its the new 'start' button of the online experience so please make sure when you launch a new product/rebrand old ones it has the waffle for navigation.
199 votesThis item has been completed and was released to the public!
Thank you for all the feedback.
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Same functionality as regular Class Notebook
I've set up several class notebooks through both onenote and now in teams. I can't see where I can have a teacher only area in the ones created through teams. Second area of concern is using the class notebook addin in onenote 2016 to edit notebooks created in teams. Lastly I set up a staff notebook in both apps to see the differences. I cannot see the different sections through the teams site on either (I linked my other staff notebook) notebook. So questions are these items still being added?
195 votesThis feature request has been completed and released to the public!! :)
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Teams Meetings split screen with interpreter when screen sharing.
When we are doing a Teams Meeting with students who are deaf or hearing impaired, they pin the interpreter to keep them on their screen. This is works great, but when a screen is shared the screen takes over the whole space. The interpreter and other participants are small and in the bottom of the screen. This doesn't allow the student to still clearly see the interpreter. While live captioning is great, when content is being shared from a classroom, students struggle to read and follow the content that quickly. Having a dedicated space on the screen to see the…
188 votesWe are excited to announce the spotlight feature has been enabled for General Availability. To learn more, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/spotlight-someone-s-video-in-a-teams-meeting-58be74a4-efac-4e89-a212-8d198182081e.
Note: If you record a meeting in which someone’s video is spotlighted, the video won’t be spotlighted in the recording. This is just a temporary limitation, stay tuned for updates.
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Localization of Microsoft Teams in Albanian language
Dear Sir/Madame,
I’m writing on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the Republic of Kosovo, regarding the localization of Office 365 and apps in Albanian language.
Some of the apps in Office 365, such as Outlook are already translated and available in Albanian language, but our request is for Microsoft Teams to be localized in Albanian language.
FYI: the region of South East Europe including countries: Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia have around 7 million citizens who’s mother tongue is Albanian.
In this time of Corona Virus we are facing the language difficulties…
180 votesAlbanian language is available now in Teams!
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See assignments of a student
see assignment by student
There needs to be a way to see the assignments by student. Click on a students name and see the assignments grades and which they have turned in and not. Unfortunately, i have to click each assignment and see my entire class and not individual students. This is a real hassle with the amount of late work i have to grade.170 votes -
If you click on Assignments that you get all of the assignments of all your classes, instead of having to click on every individual class.
If you click on Assignments that you get all of the assignments of all your classes, instead of having to click on every individual class.
156 votesThank you to everyone who wrote us comments and voted-up this request. We re-built the Assignments personal app to show all assignments in one list. Please do keep the feedback coming!
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Different assessment grade/points formats
I have some course where assignments need to be recorded as Pass, Merit or Distinction (or fail!). It would be really helpful if we could customise the "grade" given to students as this isn't always a percentage or numerical score.
156 votesThis feature request has completed!
You can read more about it on the blog post – https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/back-to-school-microsoft-teams-new-features/
And also see the video summary – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-OjlPAAh04
Thank you all for the feedback and support!
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Make sure the "Leave this team" option is not available to students
Please make sure the "Leave this team" option is not available to students in relation to their membership of a class created by SDS.
154 votesThis feature request has been released awhile ago, though this topic was still open.
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resubmit an assignment after scores have been posted
Right now, it seems like students can only see feedback on an assignment if the scores have been posted. But once the scores are posted students are not allowed to redo that assignment and resubmit the work based off of the teacher's feedback.
153 votesExcited to share we’ve shipped this today thanks to your feedback! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Education-Blog/5-New-Assignments-and-Grading-features-in-Teams-for-Education/ba-p/191367
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Assignments sent to multiple classes at once
In Classroom you could create an assignment and check each class that it would post to at once. In Teams you currently have to recreate that assignment for each class. We need to be able to create the assignment once and send it to multiple classes.
149 votesThank you for your continued feedback. You should now have access to this functionality
https://support.office.com/article/e7d4eb6d-f2d8-486f-b412-69789bd9d009
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Prevent students from muting the teacher and each other
Students are currently able to quiet down the teacher and other students by using a "mute all" button that applies to everyone. A setting to prevent students (members instead of owners) from muting other people for others would be much appreciated!
142 votesThe option to allow only the meeting organizer to mute everyone in a meeting is enabled via presenter & attendee roles:
Presenters can do just about anything that needs doing in a meeting. Attendees have limitations on the actions they can initiate within the meeting, including the following:
- Present
- Mute All
- Remove/Add Users
- Admit Users from Lobby
- Start/Stop RecordingFor more info, please see the documentation below:
https://support.office.com/article/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019.Thanks.
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Sort Files alphabetically or by creation date
Default File Sorting
I cannot find how to change the default file sorting. Currently it defaults to time uploaded. Whilst I would much prefer to sort it by title of file.I spend time ensuring that all my files have good filenames so that they sort. I cannot find how to change this default.
138 votesWe are happy to share that the column sort order can now be preserved in the Files Channel tab!
Please see the below SharePoint documentation for creating and updating custom views of a document library. This is now honored in Microsoft Teams.
Thanks for your feedback!
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Virtual background of the video in a meeting
Add a virtual background feature where you can block out the original background but it is not just blurred, it is fun and exciting.
132 votesWe have completed the roll out for the ability to select different backgrounds during a meeting. To learn more, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-background-for-a-teams-meeting-f77a2381-443a-499d-825e-509a140f4780.
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Ability to delete conversations
We need to have the ability to delete posts in the conversations tab! Even as a teacher, occasionally I want to delete something.
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Integrate OneNote into assignments
I'd like to be able to distribute a page into OneNote as an assignment,. Students should be able to complete the work within OneNote and mark it as submitted within onenote. I can then mark it within OneNote adding the score (to a side panel or equivalent). It feels like this new teams is not encouraging digital inking which for me is one of the major benefits of using OneNote.
98 votesThanks for your feedback. This should be available today . Please check the blog here – https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2017/11/teams-office-365-education-updates-november/
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Assign assignments to individuals or groups
Allow teachers to assign an assignment to a group of students, not the whole class.
95 votesThis feature request has been completed. For more details on this feature please read the support article at: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/assign-work-to-individual-students-37809738-57e6-4176-86c5-751adfe0e03a?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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