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Brian Jones's avatar
Brian Jones
Copper Contributor
Oct 25, 2017

Parent access to student assignments

When will we be able to give a parent access to view the student's assignments

  • Daniel Hanson's avatar
    Daniel Hanson
    Copper Contributor

    I would like parent access to Microsoft Teams as well since parents already have this with apps and stuff for Google Classroom.

  • Great request. Parent access is a feature are we've investigated quite a bit and have some ideas, but nothing concrete planned at this time. We would probably build it on the guest access infrastructure. Thanks for the feedback.
    • ddomico's avatar
      ddomico
      Copper Contributor

      Dan StevensonAdding this feature is vital to the continued use of Teams in Education. Administrators want all teachers to have parent access to viewing assignments. I'm concerned that I will have to stop using Teams if this feature isn't added. Let us know as soon as it is.

    • Jim Buchan's avatar
      Jim Buchan
      Copper Contributor

      I am helping develop the use of Teams in a number of schools and the absence of an automatic facility for notifying parents about class homework assignments is a real concern.  We really do need the ability to register a parents email address and to have Teams automatically notify the list of parents for a give class when assignments are set and their due date etc.  Of course teachers can do this manually but we really need an automated process please.  Ideally this would  be integrated into our school data, management system which is already used to provision class Teams adding the teacher and pupils.  Having the ability to also pickup a parent/guardians email address and configure that for notifications would be excellent.  There is no requirement for parents to have the ability to view the full details of any assignment as they can do this by asking their child to show it to them.

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      Deleted

      Hi,

      This is a major factor for our school community, teachers need parents to have visibility of what assignments are being set.

       

      We don't see this as a nice to have, its an essential feature request that if not fulfilled may drive schools back to using third party homework apps rather that fully integrate with Teams.

       

      Can you please advise when this will be on the road map?

       

      Thanks
      Kevin Rennie

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