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ETA For the Gradebook
James_Waring Microsoft staff have told me they have been specifically told to say that they are not producing a Learning Management System (or VLE).
They will have to announce soon that they actually are doing so but they have a long way to go to catch up.
They keep replicating the features of a Learning Management System each year, copying many of the features of top LMS like Firefly, Frog, Canvas, Moodle etc...
Assignments is one of those features.
Each of these products has a markbook.
Most of them also Sync users and classes automatically.
Something that we're not privy to is definitley going on behind the scenes. The 'gradebook' was announced in May and here we are in the middle of December with still nothing. It's not exactly a difficult feature to implement.
My guess is that Microsoft are developing an actual VLE in the shadows and don't want Teams for Education to develop past a certain point.
At the moment Teams is something for businesses that's been shoehorned in to education with very little consideration given to what educators actually need from software.
James_Waring I am waiting with baited breath.
I worked for an LMS and implemented a heap in my time. Creating a grade book from scratch would take ages (not just a spreadsheet but relations data like previous year data, which teachers access data, who can mark (some classes have multiple teachers on a class) - there is so much more to it so I can see them taking ages.
So many products are shoehorned into schools (look at Canvas - a great University tool but some schools are forcing this on their primary schools). Following with interest.
