Forum Discussion
James_Waring
Sep 16, 2019Copper Contributor
Groups within a class
In my school, and I'm guessing most other schools we have year groups who do the same work and assignments, but are taught by different teachers in different classrooms. I have set up Classes as indi...
sum-sam
Nov 19, 2020Copper Contributor
I would really appreciate to know whether such functionality is available by now (November, 2020).
millerblair
Dec 03, 2020Iron Contributor
You could upvote this Uservoice idea: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40104394-use-a-group-tag-to-assign-an-assignment
It is annoying that it is possible to tag member groups, but it can't be used for features like Assignments, creating Calendar meetings, Private channel membership, Breakout rooms in meetings, permissioning of files, etc. Perhaps if each tag generated a sub-group of members (Team Name-Members-Tag) they could be referenced in these other environments.
- MariusPretoriusDec 04, 2020Iron Contributor
millerblair Agreed. I made the same comment here: Expanding the use of Team Member tags - Microsoft Tech Community
There are two User Voice suggestions which are very similar, essentially referring to the same thing.