How to set Group Assignments in Microsoft Class Teams

Group assignments allow students to develop key collaboration skills and critical thinking. With Teams Teachers can manage projects easily, encouraging students to work together on projects and enhance their learning.

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Scheduling assignments to automatically post to students at a later date allows teachers to plan ahead and save time. This quick guide shows you how to schedule your assignments in Microsoft Teams for Education in a few easy steps. Scheduling assignments for later. First, you need to create a new assignment in Teams. Head to … Read more

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Microsoft Teams now lets you reuse old assignments for your current classes. This is excellent news as it not only helps teachers save time but also offers consistency with your assignments each year. Reusing assignments is really simple, and you can edit assignments and change them as much as you like to suit your current … Read more

How to turn on late turn in notifications for your assignments in Microsoft Teams

The late turn in notification in Microsoft Teams Assignments allows you to be alerted if a student hands in their homework late. The notification appears in the bottom corner of your screen, as well as the activity bell in the top-left of your Microsoft Teams. This can be activated per assignment, or for all assignments … Read more

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In this quick video, Tony shows you how to add assignments in Microsoft Teams to student and teacher calendars.  When you next go to set a task in Assignments in Teams, look for the option to Add assignment to calendars.   Here you have four options:  None – The default setting and will not add … Read more

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Finding the best way to engage and involve parents in their children’s learning can be a challenge for schools. That’s why Cloud Design Box has partnered with Haldor to deliver a homework app that is seamlessly connected to Microsoft Teams Assignments.   We all know that there are real advantages to parents and guardians being engaged in their child’s learning, especially when it comes to supporting students with homework and … Read more

Microsoft Teams has a new feature, allowing teachers to return assignments to students for additional revisions and changes. This feature is highly anticipated by teachers and solves a key problem that many schools have highlighted to us. The problem: Previously, students could go into their assignments and submit work, even when the work is missing … Read more

Rubrics are a powerful tool used to assess students’ work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualisation of what they need to do to achieve a particular score. Each criterion also includes a gradation scale of quality. Microsoft Teams for education includes rubric based grading. They can be created and reused … Read more

We have made a quick video guide for students and parents about using Microsoft Teams from home during this time of remote learning. We hope you find it useful!

Class Notebook has a really nice feature which allows teachers to distribute pages to student sections so that they can work on their own copy of the page. Since we originally looked at this in a previous blog post, Microsoft Teams now supports setting assignments using Class Notebook pages too. Essentially there are two ways … Read more

OneNote Class Notebook is free for education users as part of Office 365, it has some additional functionality which isn’t available in standard OneNote files. In this blog post, I want to focus on the additional learning tools available in this version. There is also a video guide for this post below. How do I … Read more

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