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Re-use all Team (class) settings from semester to semester
I saw this post (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Education/Option-to-duplicate-a-team-and-reuse-its-assignments/m-p/151523#M157) about re-using assignments; my question is similar but not quite the same.
We are getting feedback that teachers don't want to start using Teams if it means they have to setup their Team every semester; they want to set up a team once and then re-use the same links, documents, assignments, etc. every semester.
What is the best option for doing this? If they use Class Notebook in Teams and put everything in there, will they be able to copy their Class Notebook to each new Team/class that gets setup for them via SDS? I don't think that assignments and Team documents are currently available to copy (from the related post I linked above), but if at least the majority of their online class can be copied to each class, that would be a big help.
What does everyone else do?
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Hi Michelle!
https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/01/22/office-365-education-delivers-the-next-wave-of-innovation-for-inclusive-and-collaborative-learning/ what I believe is the first iteration of the functionality that you seek:
- Reusing a Team as a Template—Teachers can reuse an existing team as a template when creating a new team and can customize what they want to copy over—from channels, tabs, team setting, apps, and even users.
We should also be able to attach existing onenote notebooks to a team (available in business/enterprise tenants but still not for EDU), which would help those using SDS.
Thanks! I wonder if the Reuse Team as a Template will eventually work with SDS; I'll ask Matthew Whitehead this week and see what he says.
