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notify me (the teacher) when a student turns in an assignment
As a teacher of 7 different classes, I have to go into each assignment individually to see when students turn in assignments. This is very time-consuming! Please allow me to set up a notification when a student turns in an assignment.
1,650 votesThanks for all of the feedback on this one. We are reviewing how we can improve notifications around Assignments in Teams. Please keep the feedback coming!
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It would be great if students could private message teachers, but NOT each other.
It would be great if students could private message teachers, but NOT each other.
1,343 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
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Prevent attendees inviting users within an in progress meeting
Currently, attendees are able to use the participants pane in an ongoing meeting to invite users to the meeting. In an education setting, this means disruptive/cheeky students are able to abuse the invite option to call anybody within the school.. There's absolutely no reason in an educational setting for students to be able to invite anybody they like to a live lesson (meeting) - we make them attendees for a reason!
1,202 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team.
Related to this, our team is working on the “Wait in lobby” feature where it requires everyone other than the meeting organizer to go thru the lobby. Feel free to follow this other UserVoice item:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39962434
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Ability to schedule meetings in private channels
private channels need to be able to schedule meetings.
1,071 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
If you’re looking for the ability to recording meetings in private channels, please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39958744
Gordon Chang from Teams
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Dashboard rather than Conversation as the home page of each Team
Rather than see a conversation as the starting point of each Team, I'd like to see a dashboard. That is, recent conversation activity, Assessments due, calendar events, recent files, homework reminders etc ...
1,029 votesThank you all for your continued feedback on this feature! We are still evaluating options, so for now the ‘Posts’ tab remains the default first tab for every team.
Great suggestions so far in the comments, but please do continue to share how you would use this feature so we can better understand the use case for our planning.
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Track student attendance within Teams
Everything is so cool, I love it, but could be possible to add a tab to keep track of the students attendance?
855 votesHi all, thanks for the feedback thus far on attendance tracking.
We would love further details from you to better understand what you are looking for in an attendance tracking feature and to address this as fast as possible:
- Are you looking to “add a tab”? (original request)
- Are you looking for a Gradebook-like experience to track student attendance throughout the class?
- Will this be used primarily for online classes and online training, or needed for physical classrooms too?
- If you would like the ability to download the student attendance list from within a Teams meeting, could you please upvote this related UserVoice feedback: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/39969796
We look forward to hearing from you!
Gordon Chang from Teams
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Turn in assignments on behalf of in Teams for EDU.
Teachers need a way to turn in an assignment on behalf of students who for some reason aren't able to turn it in themselves, or at least change the status to delivered.
836 votesThank you for all of the feedback around this feature! We are reviewing what the best path forward is for this.
Just so everyone knows in the meantime, teachers can absolutely review any student attached or distributed work in Assignments even if students have not clicked the ‘Turn in’ button. Some of the comments also mention that the work might not be done digitally and submitted a different way, students can also Turn in the assignment without attaching any files/resources or can use the Teams mobile app to take a photo of their paper-based work to submit digitally.
Finally, when you return the assignment as a teacher (even without the student turning in) the feedback loop is also closed. Hope this helps.
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Ability to record meetings in private channels
Holding meetings in private channels is really useful (students don't need to know when instructional staff is meeting), but I want the ability to record them like I can in a general channel. Recording 1-1 meetings would also be helpful to international students who could then review them.
658 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
If you’re looking for the ability to schedule channel meetings in private channels, please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39112060
Gordon Chang from Teams
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LaTeX math input
Allow LaTeX math input into the Teams interface for Education customers.
Currently Edmodo allows some simple LaTeX code (as complex as those that amsmath package recognises!)
596 votesGreat suggestion for all STEM classes! I’ve moved this feature to ‘under review’.
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Group Assignments
Sometimes I like to have my students turn in their assignment as a group, so I only read and grade one paper from a group of 3 or 4 students. It would be great if Teams Assignments could support that. So that either the students or the teacher (or best them both) can choose who this assignment is for/from.
Hope it makes sense?
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I would love for the assignment tab to show up in each channel created. I create a new channel to match each unit of study. I
I would love for the assignment tab to show up in each channel created. I create a new channel to match each unit of study. I use each channel as a module.
460 votesThank you everyone for the additional feedback on this feature request! We’ve read all your comments and are currently investigating what we can do to help.
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Incorporate "Take a Test" app into Teams
Add the functionality of "Take a Test" app into Teams by using Office 365 account. You can use Office 365 login to create a profile on the machine that only allows single application to run. The teacher could then assign a test to a class and would allow for student monitoring by the teacher thru the Office 365 connection.
457 votesThanks everyone for your feedback on this. As more educators look for ways to create secure assessments (especially remotely) this is one of the options we are investigating.
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Read receipt in conversation - see who has read a post in a channel
Now I post a message in a thread/conversation, but I have no idea how many has read it.
386 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
Meanwhile, feel free to share why you need this in class teams / staff teams, and what you need to see (ie # read / list of users read / timestamp of read) and for what purpose.
Gordon Chang from Teams
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Download all assignments button
Almost all schools require the ability to download assignments and upload them to district-systems, print a batch of assignments, provide them to external audits etc.
The functionality is already there (navigate to the correct document library and then click 'download').
Simply add the UI option for a teacher to do this without knowledge of SharePoint libraries.
Surely this wouldn't require too much engineering to make it happen?
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Live event concurrency
Increase the number of concurrent live events to more than 15 per tenant - required to enable large cohort remote teaching which is a massive priority for universities at the time of the Coronavirus worldwide incident.
Universities will often have more than 15 large lectures running at the same time and increasing the number of live events to 30 or 45 will allow universities and colleges to remotely teach large numbers concurrently
281 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
Meanwhile, feel free to share why you need this in schools and universities. And if increasing number of participants in a meeting (see another UV feedback below) would solve your need: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053/suggestions/36681970
Gordon Chang from Teams
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Increase maximum meeting participants to 500
Currently, meetings are limited to 250 participants.
We have several departments within our organization containing 250-500 employees.
Because the current Teams meeting maximum size is 250, we use other applications to host meetings for these departments.
We would like to be able to use Teams for these larger group meetings.
Please increase the number of participants in meetings to 500.279 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
Meanwhile, feel free to share the ideal maximum participants in a meeting, what type of meetings are those (lectures? staff meetings? school wide announcement?) Are all participants students? Thanks,
Gordon Chang from Teams
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Add a Sway
Add the possibilty to add Sways to a Team
265 votesUnfortunately I need to switch this back to Under Review. The feature team is investigating how best this could be implemented.
-Warren
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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…
172 votesThis feature request is being reviewed by the feature team. No new details to share at this time.
Thank you.
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SCORM
Please can you build something so we can use SCORM files in Teams, and pull out the scores of quizzes from within them and completion of the materials?
114 votesThank you for your feedback. We are reviewing this request and will evaluate possible solutions.
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Access to Meetings Options when creating a Meeting
Seems to be that you can only change the options for a meeting once it has been created and scheduled.
Please make them available when creating the meeting.
Especially useful if you're using Meet Now for a classroom of children, and you don't want all of them to be a Presenter.
98 votesWhile this is under review, note that we have enabled meeting options for channel “Meet now” while you’re in the meeting. Check out the UV item on that update: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39994324
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