Microsoft Teams is not only the best vehicle for collaboration and communication in a classroom setting, but the assignment feature is hands-down the best workflow I have seen for assigning, collecting and marking student work.
Using assignments in Teams you can:
The workflow for marking is also fantastic - coming in Part II…
Using assignments in Teams you can:
- Schedule tasks for students so they are released at a certain time
- Attach resources such as
- Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) that are distributed to each student
- A page from the Class Notebook to distribute that again is only editable by each student individually
- A PDF file
- An image file as a prompt
- Choose only certain students in the class making it easy to personalise the assessment
- Allow late submissions. After the due date the resources become read only and students can't submit
- Create a rubric for the assessment that allows you to customise weightings of each criteria and assign marks
- Create a category that is searchable later
The workflow for marking is also fantastic - coming in Part II…