Can’t create a Class Team from an existing Group

ScottOI think the answer was to create the team in the Teams client.

When you create a Class Team this way it also sets a different Group Privacy setting — HiddenMembers. The only options in the Admin Center are Public and Private, so I think this also means you can’t edit the group settings from there any more as you can’t set the proper Group Privacy.

You also can’t manage Class Notebooks from Onenote Admin, Onenote online or from the Teams client. I just wanted to remove a notebook for a student who had left, but got an error message saying “No class notebooks have been created yet”. I normally use Linux and ended up having to create a Windows 10 virtual machine and install the Onenote client there just to remove the notebook.

The Class Notebook itself is incredibly slow to open in the Teams client (over a 100 Mbps connection), making it hardly worth using in online classes.

I have to say, after a few months of using it, that Office 365 seems very messy. There are even things you can only do (setting some locale defaults) from the command line and only in Windows 10 after downloading the right scripts, which seem to be constantly changing. I wasted a lot of time trying to use the version of PowerShell released for Linux before finding out it wouldn’t work.

The lack of integration and consistency is appalling. The amount or irrelevant spam is annoying.

I’m really glad that we’re only a small organisation using a free Education license who can fairly easily retreat to using other resources if necessary.