Microsoft Teams for Education topics

Unauthorized external user joining Class Team call

Surani . — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:15:53 GMT

On one of our online school days, we had someone asking to join from the lobby with a changed display name with a swear word. We do not allow guest access on our platform. We do not have a log as the person was not admitted into the meeting. However everyone saw the message " so and so" is waiting in the lobby. also next to the name "External" appears.

How can we stop this happening again? what should I advice our admin to set up as policies?

Assignments not accessible in Teams

Linda Drowe Petersen — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:07:27 GMT

The Assignment app has stopped accessibility from our classes in Teams. When student click on an new assignment, the notification that comes up is: Something went wrong - come back later ... and that has been for several months. The same goes for teachers who try to open the from the team. I can only make an assignment when I go to the global app in the Me space. And when I assign it, the students can't open it, and have to go to the Me space. Does anyone know how to fix it? We love the app, so we want it to work as smooth as possible. Thank you for any help

Class Team calendar doesn't show in the class startpage

Linda Drowe Petersen — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:25:29 GMT

I used to love the startpage app in class teams, but since the spring of 2025, the calendar is not imported to show in the startpage under teaching schedule. If I add a calendar to each class, it doesn't show either. The teaching schedule says the group doesn't exist any longer, maybe it has been deleted (no it has not been deleted). All I seem to be able to. The only way is by is to make all classes to M365 groups, but that shouldn't be necessary, or is it? Sad to lose the generel calendar in class teams. Thanks for any help or advise.

Students added as owners

David720 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:52:30 GMT

We are seeing if a teacher manually adds a student to an SDS created team they get default added as owners and can't be changed in Teams. Is this a known issue?

Turn in Assignments for Students

ALongendyke24 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:56:09 GMT

I would love to be able to select multiple students and Turn in the assignment for them! I like that I can do it individually, but often I need to help out multiple students in multiple classes.

I know there's a learning curve to teach them to "turn it in on TEAMS when you are done" but so many don't and then they can't remember if they completed as assignment (if it is paper based).

Pretty please add this feature!

Assignmentanswers in Teams can be read by everyone

Oddgeir Sværen — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:41:43 GMT

It turns out that the Excel-file that is generated for me to view the results of a Forms-test, given as an assignment in Teams, is placed in the Teams-library where Teams-members are granted editing rights by default. This, not only makes it possible for every Team-member, my students, to see everyone's result, but also to edit the answers. I know it is possible to alter the rights given to this library, but I don't like the idea of instructing every teacher in our school to do this. This Excel-file should NOT be placed in this library, but rather in my personal OneDrive as it is if I don't use the assignement-tool in Teams. Is there a way someone in Microsoft can fix this? Please?

Best regards Oddgeir

Download the submitted files related to an assignment

Oddgeir Sværen — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:49:23 GMT

Some teachers still wants to evaluate a printed document and not just the digital one. I know they can download submitted files from the sharepoint-repository, but then they have to go through so many folders. Is there a way to download say, all word-documents submitted on the assignment "Whatever the assignment they where given"? So browsing the folders by assignment instead of by student I guess. Does anyone know?

Regards Oddgeir

'Hide' assignments

BillHughes — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:51:17 GMT

I am new to the MS Teams Classroom and really like the way it looks so far.

I teach a group that is self paced and want to be able to give access to assignments to individual students once the have completed the learning materials, is this possible? I find that when the assignments are available my students tend to go straight there skipping the learning materials.

Microsoft Teams

Rabeetsid — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:45:03 GMT

I have some concerns about Microsoft Teams

We are unable to automatically export results to Excel if several
participants in a class exceed 500 or the number of assignments
increases (the exact number is not known). What is the solution to that?

Grades app - filter by TAG

Mr_Bur — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:30:06 GMT

On the grades app, I can filter by date range, and by grading category. I have the need to filter by TAG

(I co-teach a class with a colleague, we use categories for TYPE of assignment, and tags to mark WHICH of us is associated with the assignment.... and I'd like to filter this).

Hopefully, it should be an uncontentious tweak to make!

Sensitivity labels for class teams in m365 edu

ube265 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:25:37 GMT

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some clarification regarding sensitivity labels for class teams.

In our tenant, we are unable to change the label after a team is provisioned, although we can make changes via the connected SharePoint site. This has left us uncertain about whether sensitivity labels are fully supported for class teams and if we should be using them at all.

If sensitivity labels are indeed not supported, does anyone know if there are plans to introduce this support in the future?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Education Teams Student Presentation

jeanlouissaurel — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:19:26 GMT

Hi all

I take the liberty of sharing a problem for which I can't find a solution...

I would like to benefit from a practical tool/application in Teams Education so that my students register on the presentation topics that I offer them.

I tried with Forms office but I can't get what I want.

Let me explain my needs:

- I propose a list of presentations to each of my teams / classes,

- students must choose a subject from those proposed (in pairs or trios),

- once the subject is chosen by a group of students, it must no longer be accessible to the others (it must no longer appear in the proposed list).

- a student must register but also register his or her partner and possibly his or her trinomial (the number of students per subject is imposed and known to the students).

I must be able to easily find the students registered for each presentation, this is the purpose of this tool / application

If you think you know the solution to my problem, thank you in advance

Jean-Louis

Class Team - disappearing channels

GlynnisR — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:16:43 GMT

Hi, we started using class teams on 8/7/24. They were generated using School Data Sync.

It has been reported that channels in the Class Team are disappearing and that it is an intermittent issue. Has anyone else experienced this?

Copying complete notebooks in OneNote

AmandaJ240 — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:43:25 GMT

I have made a whole resource notebook for the department, complete with sections, subsections, pages & subpages. I am only able to copy this to the content library when I set up a new class Team, and then distribute each page individually to students. Is there a way to copy the entire notebook so that when the new class notebook is made, it copies into the content library and all the student sections at the same time?

Smart Subchannels

Mr_Bur — Wed, 01 May 2024 09:21:36 GMT

I would *love* to have 'smart subchannels.

I have a team with people who are tagged according to the year they joined the school. As they move through the school, I need to assign them to different subchannels.

Please let me say 'this subchannel is visible to anyone with this tag'.... and then edit the rule on the fly.

At the moment, I have to add and remove people individually, which is a pain (it would be less of a pain if I could bulk add/remove by tag.... but it's more elegant to have a rule!)

As things stand, I cannot even see the tag in the subchannel

Hide Class template in Microsoft Teams

securebeam1925 — Wed, 01 May 2024 06:09:30 GMT

Hello,

Our tenant is an education-tenant, where we have Academic A1 and A5-licenses.

When our users are creating a new team in Teams they are met with this view:

Is it possible to hide the templates connected to education, such as "Class", "Professional learning..", "Staff" and "Other" from the view when a user is to create a Team? Only a basic template would be needed.

As far as I can see, you can add/hide other templates via the Admin Centre, but not specifically the core templates such as "Class". Is there a way to do this?

Bug in assignment due date, MS Teams Windows

zayarhtet — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:08:43 GMT

There is a bug in MS Teams desktop windows related to the Assignment.

I don't know why the assignment schedule is based on the timezone of the respective operating systems.

Students can easily change the time on their computer in the Windows setting and bypass the assignment deadline.

Sometimes, the time on their computer is quite earlier than the normal standard time, so the deadline for their assignment has passed and students can't submit it, even though the deadline has not passed on the other computer.

Parent Communication

RyeTeacher — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:40:42 GMT

Can we create a team for schoolwide communication? I tried to do that. I added two students to the team (Using an "Other" type team), but I don't see that Team anywhere in the school connection app. It would be advantageous to use Teams for schoolwide communications. Emails are always going to junk and Teams would be such a great tool for that.

School Data Sync

RyeTeacher — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:54:04 GMT

Is there a way to edit parent contact information in Teams directly after you have synched your data?

Parent Connection with Existing Teams

RyeTeacher — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:27:11 GMT

I am trying to test out the parent connection app. I have parents loaded into teams and I am trying to test my own child. Since I already have Teams, I am looking at the settings and I don't see the "School connection" as an option in my settings. How do I set that up if I already have a Teams account?