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Organize classwork with four new Assignments features from Teams

September 09, 2021.

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Whether you’re preparing for a new school year or are already in the thick of one, there is no better time than now to recommit to classroom organization with the help of Microsoft Teams. Assignments in Teams has just what the educator ordered—simplified ways to streamline, distribute, manage, and access assignments for classes this year and beyond. 

Here are some of the latest and greatest features Assignments has to offer:

1. Filter assignments by class

Sometimes keeping track of assignments can almost feel like a greater task than reviewing them. Educators can now rest easy and stay organized by filtering student assignments by the classes they teach for a convenient and visual list view.

2. Return an assignment for student revision

Assignments are sometimes a work in progress, requiring ongoing updates, reviews, and edits. After reviewing an assignment, educators can now  return the assignment for revision . The returned assignment will appear in the student’s “active work” list, where they can then turn the work in after making edits. To return an assignment, educators just need to select Return for revision .

3. Assign group work

Collaborative learning just got easier with the new group assignment feature. Educators can give projects to a team of students and have them collaborate on, and submit, one piece of work for their whole group. Once the assignment has been submitted, educators can choose to submit comments and grades to individual students, or the entire group.

4. Manage assignments on a mobile device

Learning can happen from anywhere, and many educators and students rely on a mobile device to check and work on assignments. For their convenience, an upgraded version of Assignments with simplified navigation is now available on Android and iOS mobile devices and tablet devices.

When you’re ready to take advantage of these new features, don’t forget to also sprinkle in some fun and use the latest emojis in Microsoft Teams! With more than 800 emojis that are customizable (including by skin tone now), your students can freely express themselves, feel represented, and bring their full personalities to the classroom. Download Teams today to get started for free.

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Create Assignments In Teams

Teams is great for collaboration and makes it super easy to get students working together on something.

However, it is also great for creating work that students can complete individually.

Using the Assignments features in Teams is easy and is baked into any Classes Teams you’ve created. You can upload documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint (if you want students to add their own ideas) and you also add PDFs or Picture files (if you want students to have them as a reference.) The assignments features allows you to set due dates and schedule to assign later (for those of you who have already planned out your entire year.)

Points can be given and rubrics can be attached. The review tool makes it easy to give feedback and get the assignments returned to students.

You can also create assignments from Microsoft Forms and have them automatically graded.

Read below to learn about getting going with the Assignments feature.

Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Enter a title for this assignment—this is required. Your title will appear on the assignment card in the weekly assignment view.

• Choose multiple classes  or  individual students in one class to assign to.
• Add additional instructions

• Select a due date or time
• Select late turn-in if you’ll allow students to turn in this assignment late.
• Select the amount of points this assignment is worth, if any. You can use points on any number-based scale including whole numbers of 100 and set your own denominator.  Examples:  88/100 or decimals 3.7/4.0.
• Select  Assign . Your students will be notified of the new assignment. A card will also appear in the Conversation tab of the General channel with the due date and a link to the assignment’s details.
• Select  Discard  to discontinue work on this assignment or  Save as draft  to return to the assignment and edit it later.Note: Select the  Expansion icon  (diagonal, double sided arrow) to enter full-screen mode.

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How to Post Assignments to Specific Channels in Teams

Sara Wanasek

Keeping your students organized and on top of their work can get a little chaotic – especially when there is a mix of digital and paper assignments. When working within Microsoft Teams , the General Channel is the default for posting any assignments and updates to students. This leads to a messy Channel if you are posting often. However, we can help you to stay more organized and fix this up – try to post assignments to specific channels instead.

If you have assignments for specific units or groups of students, you can now post these notifications on that specific channel. Unfortunately, Teams doesn’t allow you to do this for private channels, so make sure they are open! If you do have an assignment that is only for a few specific students, you will have to assign the work to them separately. We go through how to post assignments to specific channels and students below. If you are ready to get your Teams organized, start reading!

Assign to a Specific Channel

To start to post assignments to specific channels, go into your Assignments tab in Microsoft Teams and create a new assignment. Fill out all of the assignment details that you want to add. At the bottom of the page, you will notice a line that reads “ Post Assignment Notifications to this Channel: General .” Next to it, click on the Edit button.

You will see the different channel options that you can choose. Choose which channel you will want the assignment notifications to go to, and click done . Then, don’t forget to click Assign to send the assignment to your students. You can go into the channel you chose and see the assignment notification there.

Don’t see all your channels when editing where to post the assignment notifications? Note that you are unable to choose private channels. For a workaround here, you can instead assign work to specific students.

Assign to Specific Students

Many teachers create private channels for students to do group work or to easily separate students and give them different versions of the same assignments. When assigning work, it would be nice to also post the assignment notifications to that channel, but unfortunately, Teams doesn’t allow you to do this in private channels. Instead, we will have to manually choose and assign the work to these groups of students.

To begin, we will create a new assignment from the Assignments tab in your Team. Once all the details are added in, you can choose which Team and which students to assign this to. Instead of choosing All Students , you can pick and choose which students will receive this assignment. You can go through your class list and choose the students. You will notice that you are not able to edit where the notifications are posted after you have done this.

Once the work has been assigned, students will receive a notification on their end that they must complete the work. Unfortunately, they won’t receive a notification in any of their channels, but they will know they still must do the assignment.

There are many different ways to use Teams and make it easier for you and your students to stay on top of their work. Hopefully, to post assignments to specific channels and to specific students are 2 ways that you can implement them in your routine. For other Teams Tips & Tricks, check out the articles below:

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• Step-By-Step Tutorial For Using Class Notebook In Microsoft Teams
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• How to Use the Brand New Breakout Rooms Feature in Microsoft Teams
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Beyond the content that is stored in SharePoint, there is metadata and details about Assignments and Submissions that is stored for Assignments. The export user data is supported for both Student and Teacher users. However, delete data is only supported for Students due to co-mingling and data retention compliance. Teachers can delete their data in app by deleting assignments / classes. For more information review the Assignments Admin documentation .

There are three scripts to use depending upon the scenario:

Shared common step for Export and Delete user data scenario:

Use the Get-UserClasses.ps1 script to create a list of classes that user is part of. If the user has left the class, then a text file containing those class Ids can be provided to include data from those classes. Otherwise data will not be exported/deleted from those classes. Running this script will create a csv file that contains list of classes, role of user in class and whether export / delete for the user has been processed (false by default).

Exporting User data:

Use the Export-EDUAssignments.ps1 script to export data for the user. The csv file generated in the above step is input to this script. Running this script will get assignments and submissions of each assignment and generates two files. The assignment file (assignment.json) contains assignments and submissions and report file(GetAssignmentsReport.csv) - status of running the script. After running the script it updates the GetSubmissionsProcessed column in the csv input file to true for that specific class so that if there is a failure the script can be re-run.

Deleting User data:

Use the Delete-EDUAssignments.ps1 script to delete data for the user. The script reads the class details of user from input csv file generated in the shared step above. It then deletes the submissions, and generates a report file(DeleteAssignmentsReport.csv) for status of running the script. When the deletion of submission is done it updates the DeleteSubmissionsProcessed column to true for that specific class, so that if there is a failure the script can be re-run. The script will also remove students from the class unless optionally specified to not do so by the Tenant Admin, failing that the student will get all the assignments applicable to them be re-distributed to them.

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Assign and track tasks in Teams

You can use the Tasks app in Teams to manage your team's work, either creating task lists yourself in Shared lists, or using task lists published to you by upper management to pass on to your frontline workers. 

You can assign all these tasks in Teams, and people who are assigned tasks can indicate in the Tasks app when they start and complete a task. The whole team can view team progress on completing the list of tasks, and managers who send you published task lists can track progress of those tasks—both whether they've been assigned and how close to complete they are. 

For an overview of the full task list publishing process, see Publish task lists to create and track work in your organization .

For help creating plans, see  Create a plan in Microsoft Planner and  Add tasks to a plan .

When you sign in to Teams and select the Tasks app, you'll get notification if your team received a new task list, in your  Activity  feed.

Assign tasks to people  

On the  All your lists  page, select  Tasks  under  Shared plans  on the left.  

Note:  Tasks that are part of shared plans, not published lists, aren't listed in the general Tasks list. Instead, each plan is listed under Shared plans—just select a plan to see its tasks, assign them, and so on.

You can assign up to 11 people to a task. They will all see the task in their  Assigned to you  list when they open Tasks.

   When any team member marks a task “Complete”, it is marked complete for all team members. 

Track your team’s progress 

In addition to the list, your team’s tasks can be viewed as a board, chart, or schedule on a calendar. All these views include all of your team’s tasks, whether published or not. 

The  Board  shows your team’s task by bucket.

The  Charts  provide a visual summary of the plan and its progress.

The  Schedule  presents the tasks by due date, in a weekly or monthly view.

Select  List ,  Board ,  Charts , or  Schedule at the top of the Planner window to switch between them. 

Customize your views in a flash 

Do you want to see only the tasks due next week on the schedule calendar? Or just menswear and womenswear department tasks on the board? Or tasks with the word “Inventory” in the title? Filters offer a handy way to see exactly what you want to, on any of the available views. 

Select  Filter  in the top right of the page and select as many options as you need. Or type a keyword. Or do both!    

The options remain selected when you switch from  List  to  Charts  to  Board  and back again.   

To de-select a filter, select the option again. Or select  Clear  to start over. 

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I have an assignment that gets stuck when generating the information for it, I have over 250 students in my class team, but I want to assign a particular assignment to just 150 of them. Every time I create the assignment it gets stuck generating but doesn't populate no matter how long it has been left. Is there an upper limit on the amount of people that can be assigned individually to an assignment, I know an assignment going out to all students is 1000 but when individually assigning it always seems to get stuck.

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Good day! Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community. We'll be happy to help!

First of all, we regret for the inconvenience and inconvenience caused to your work. Based on your description , I have a general understanding of your question, yes, you can assign an assignment to over 100 individual students in Microsoft Teams for Education. However, there may be some limitations when assigning to a large number of students. For your reference Create group assignments or assign to individual students - Microsoft Support

Regarding the issue you are experiencing with the assignment getting stuck when generating information, it is possible that the system is experiencing a delay due to the large number of students you are trying to assign the assignment to. You can try assigning the assignment to a smaller group of students at a time to see if that resolves the issue. If problem persists, please kindly try updating your Teams desktop client to the latest version if you haven't updated it to the latest version. And if you still need more help, try clearing the Teams cache - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn and then check the result, thanks.

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With the recent release of baseball and softball district assignments by the Missouri State High School Activities Association, the Houston High School teams now know who they’ll deal with in the postseason.

The HHS baseball team is in Class 3 District 10, along with Liberty, Seymour, Thayer and Willow Springs.

Meanwhile, the HHS softball team is in Class 2 District 3, which also includes Licking, Salem, Bourbon, Steelville, Potosi, Kingston and Grandview (Hillsboro).

Assignments of other Texas County squads include the Licking baseball team in Class 3 District 9, the Plato Baseball team in Class 2 District 9, and the Cabool and Summersville baseball teams in Class 2 District 10.

The softball teams from Cabool, Plato and Summersville are all in Class 1 District 4.  

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