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Microsoft Teams – Assignments for Specific Channels Without Selecting Students Individually
Hi everyone,
Our secondary school is implementing Microsoft Teams with one Team per subject per year level (e.g., "Year 8 Science") instead of separate Teams for each class. The challenge is that multiple teachers teach different classes within the same Team.
We want to:
- Set assignments that are only visible to students in a specific channel (without manually selecting students one by one).
- Grade assignments so that teachers only see and mark the work of students in their own class/channel, rather than all students in the Team.
What We've Tried:
- Private Channels & Standard Channels: We found that you can’t assign work to a specific channel, whether it’s private or not.
- Groups: While you can assign work to a group, you still have to manually select each student, which isn’t practical. The alternative is a random selection, which doesn’t help.
- Saving Groups: You can’t save groups for future use, meaning we’d have to manually recreate them each time we set an assignment.
Has anyone found a workaround for this? Are there settings, apps, or best practices that could help?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
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Dynamic Groups are an excellent feature within Microsoft 365 that can help automate the management of groups based on certain attributes. You can create dynamic security groups in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), where students can automatically be grouped based on attributes like their class, year level, or course. These groups can be automatically updated as students' information changes, reducing the need for manual adjustments.
Once you have your dynamic groups set up in Azure AD, you can use these groups for assignment distribution in Teams. This means assignments can be assigned to a specific group (e.g., "Year 8 Science - Class A") without manually selecting students.
