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Welcome to the Microsoft Teams for Education Community!
Hi everyone, we're excited to now have a space dedicated to Microsoft Teams for EDU. My name is Justin Chando, and I'm Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Education product team in Redmond, WA. This community is a place for you to ask questions about others' experiences, share ideas, learn best practices, hear about product updates, collaborate with others using Microsoft Teams for Education, and have direct interaction with the product and engineering teams. We're so excited you've joined us and look forward to your posts and contributions to the community. If you have any questions about the community, please ask them below :)
Expanding the use of Team Member tags
Currently you can assign team member tags to group the members for group chats. I would like to use the tags to be able to assign assignments to different groups of learners, instead of picking them out individually from the class list. Currently there is such an idea at the Microsoft Teams Uservoice, but it hasn't attracted many votes. If you support the idea, please go toAssign a assignment to group of students with a specific tagand vote for it.Teams Admin: Creating Bulk Class Teams using PowerShell and a CSV file
For Your Information: I have successfully created Class Teams using PowerShell and a CSV file. This is very handy because you can have a whole list of teams, channels, teachers and students in a CSV file making creating a large number of teams a snap. I have attached a PowerShell module and a sample CSV file. The method is similar to what is found hereCreate teams in Microsoft Teams through CSV using PowerShell | JiJi Technologies, though there are a few small differences. I did not write the script, I found it online - but I cannot remember where. I made a few minor changes where the original script gave errors.In the spirit of sharing, I have attached it here. Basically you need to have PowerShell 5.1 and install the current MicrosoftTeams PowerShell module (in PowerShell) using the commandInstall-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -RequiredVersion 1.1.6 (that being the current version as of this writing). You need to run PowerShell as administrator. Prepare your CSV file using the example I have attached. Import the PowerShell module I have attached and run the function New-TeamsFromCSV. Watch your computer do all the hard work while you relax!A Way for Students to see their current average score in Teams?
Hi Community, Is there a way for students to see their current average score in the Teams Grade tab? They can see their individual grades for assignments, but looks like they have to do the math themselves to get an average? Anyone find something I'm missing? Another question I hesitate to ask, because it seems like such common sense I must be missing something. Thanks for taking a look. Rich
Problems with custom audio setup on teams.
I have been using teams for my school for the past 3 months. Until recently I used to have a custom setup for my audio devices where I would use my Bluetooth Boat Airdopes 441 as the output and my Headset Microphone (plugged in through the 3.5 mm jack) as the input. However since a week this setup has stopped working. The moment I do this setup, I stop hearing the meeting. The only way my earphones work is when both the Audio input and output are from the headphones. However when I use my speaker as the output, it works perfectly. (Refer Screenshot). I am on Windows 11 and using teams for work and school version. Also this setup works perfectly on Discord and Zoom so there isn't a problem with the headphones or the microphone.Microsoft Teams Assignments and SharePoint Documents
SharePoint and Assignments You probably know that documents that students upload to Assignments are stored in SharePoint. You can open that location in SharePoint Online,by going to the Files tab of the relevant team and choosing "Open in SharePoint". You then need to navigate to Site Contents and Student Work. You will see there are two folders: Submitted files and Working files. In each of these is a folder for every learner and in every learner folder is a folderper assignment. Syncing What I do, is I sync the Student Work folder to my device. It then appears as a folder structure in my File Explorer. I have the choice to either leave the documents in the cloud or make them available on my device. The difference between Submitted files and Working files is that when a student uploads a document to an Assignment, it goes into the Working files folder. The learner can still open it (in Teams Assignments or in SharePoint) and make changes. Once the student has clicked on the Turn In button, it is copied to the Submitted files folder and no longer allows any changes. User Scenario The User Scenario where this can be beneficial is as follows: Students can upload their documents to the Assignment even while it is a work in progress. During that time both the learner and the teacher can have access to the file and basically 'collaborate' on the document. This allows a teacher to make ongoing comments to the document to provide formative feedback. When thestudent is ready to submit he/she Turns In the document. Even after submission the teacher can still make comments on the document and the student can still open it and view the comments, but can no longer make changes. I have a research project that learners work on for the duration of the school year. They need ongoing input to keep them on the right track. I'm going to use the method I have outlined above to provide them with that feedback.New Governance Resources for Microsoft Teams for Education
Hello Microsoft Teams for Education Community! We've published a guide for Education admins on top questions related to governance and lifecycle management. This guide includes resources and best practices to help you manage Teams, what happens at the end of the semester, and how to monitor what's happening in your tenant. You can check it out here:Microsoft Teams for Education Governance Guide Please reply with your feedback and questions!H5P Interactive Content Teams Integration
H5P has wonderful HTML5 interactive objects that bring delight to any digital content creating teacher's heart. With many educators committing to Ms Teams for blended learning delivery, the challenge is how can one bring this content into Ms Teams? Now for some good news/bad news. Microsoft has just announced that it is now possible to embed H5P interactive content right into OneNote. Unfortunately, this is only possible using content which is hosted on H5P.com (related to H5P.org) which is a paid SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. The yearly amount is not trivial (starting at $570 for three authors) and for many would be a hurdle too high. However, there is a way to integrate H5P content hosted on your own WordPress or Drupal (CMS) H5P enabled site, with Ms Teams. A word of caution here: I'm not referring to WordPress sites that are hosted on WordPress.com. I'm referring to WordPress installations that are hosted by Web hosting companies such as Bluehost. You may already have such a site or you could sign up to a web hosting company and create one. The cost will be much less than $570 per annum. The way to integrate self hosted H5P content is to embed it on a SharePoint page as an Embed web part. There are a couple of settings that you need to change to make this to work. The best (and easiest) explanation I have found for making these settings is by Greg at the SharePoint Maven. I also changed the "Allow custom scripts" setting for my tenant. See my post here. Obviously this approach is based on the SharePoint integration with Ms Teams, where you can then add your SharePoint pages as tabs to your Teams channels. The upshot of all this is that it is possible to integrate the wonderful interactive content from H5P with Ms Teams!
Assignments and Calendar Integration
Hello community, we are looking for a way for students to see all their assignments across different Classes/Teams all in one space, preferably in a List or Calendar view. We've played with Planner, but ideally we're looking for an integration that will push all assignments that teachers give into the Calendar on Teams. Is there anything like this available?
