Zoom competitor video conferencing application Microsoft Teams is one of the digital services created by the epidemic. Teams focuses on education as well as providing meetings online. Aiming to facilitate and make the connection between students and teachers easier and more efficient, Microsoft brought new functionality to Teams' Assignments feature.
New features that mainly appeal to teachers; returning homework, filtering by class and group work.
With Microsoft Teams, homework can be filtered by class
With the new Microsoft Teams update released, it has become easier to filter assignments by classes. Teachers can now determine the assignments given to students separately for each class. This will eliminate the confusion in the Teams program. Each class will have a separate layout, and instructors will make it easier to follow and control their homework.
Assignments can be returned
If you don't like the assignment a student sent you or you think it needs revision, you can easily send it back. Microsoft Teams will keep the submitted assignment in the "active work" section in the application. The student will re-save the assignment after completing the requested revision. You can request editing from the student by pressing the "Return" button.
Project assignments can be given to student groups.
Working collectively became easier with the new Group Assignments feature of Microsoft Teams. As a teacher, you can now assign project assignments to your students in groups. In this way, instead of dealing with it each time, you can take a single assignment from your students and only review it. You can also forward your comments on each assignment sent by your students to the group collectively.
Assignments can also be checked from mobile
Millions of users prefer to use applications that are useful in daily life from their smartphones. As a result, developers also revise their software according to mobile operating systems. Microsoft Teams gained the Assignments support with the new update released for Android and iOS .
As a teacher, you can give your students homework from your phone, just like on a computer; As a student, you can now send your assignments from mobile.