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Create a team per class or team per subject?
- Aug 26, 2020
FrankGriffin Hi Frank, I have no experience using Teams edu but this is https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/best-practices-for-school-leaders-creating-teams-and-channels-in-microsoft-teams-for-education-f3663ad9-a835-4971-9acb-6725a543c003
FrankGriffin I am not a teacher, but have been supporting a few local schools since COVID19 forced schools to close. There is no right answer to your question, it depends on a few things. I have worked with elementary school teachers who decided to create one team per class and a channel for each subject. Their reasoning was that it will be easier for the young kids to navigate within one team vs. multiple teams. Those ES teachers used the classnotebook to store content, but they did not use the assignment / grade functionality. I have also worked with teachers who created a team per subject (e.g. Culture Studies) and channels per topic (Italy, France, etc.). They used the classnotebook as well as the assignments. I recommend that you create a test Team for yourself and check out all the features of the classnotebook. Once you have a clear idea how you want to organize your teaching content and how to deliver it to your students you will likely figure out yourself if a Team per subject or a Team for the whole class with a channel per subjects is better. One thing to keep in mind: every member (student) in your team will see all channels and all its contents. If you teach mainly math to 5 different classes, then you will want to create 5 different teams. Otherwise it will get hard to use in the long run, especially when you start giving assignments. Hope this helps.