Hello and welcome to mr Tompkins edtech. Your teacher is going to be setting work for you
this year using the assignment tool in Teams. This video is going to explain how the assignment
tool works, how you can find your assignments, how you complete them and how to hand them
in.
First up, how do you know you’ve been set an assignment in Teams. Well, it will be hard
not to know! You should receive a notification from your Teams app that you’ve been set
an assignment by your teacher. On a mobile device, you’ll get a message in your notifications
view that you have an assignment due, your teams icon will show a little number next
to it here. On the PC, you’ll also get a pop up notification, you’ll see a little
number on the tile of the class team. On all devices, it will be listed in your recent
events in the activity tab, and it will also appear within the class team’s posts. You
can see it’s created a post here. Now the only details you’ll get in the notifications
and in the post are just going to be the assignment’s title. For more details on the actual task,
you’re going to have to open the assignment itself. You can do this by tapping on any
of the notifications that appear, and then by clicking the button in the assignment post. So lets
do that now.
You can see its taken me to this assignment view. Now again we can see the title of the
assignment, but underneath we have a lot more details now about what the teacher actually
wants you to do for this assignment.
Now the actual assignments are going to vary a great deal from subject to subject, and
from teacher to teacher, just like your homeworks and classwork always do. But whatever it is they
are asking you to do, it will be explained here for you. If you want some help with reading
it, notice there is this “immersive reader” button up here, which you can use to make
the text more accessible or even read it out aloud for you.
Now make sure you also take note of this date and time up here – this is the due date
for your assignment, so you’ll need to have completed it and handed it in before this
date and time. Reference material will contain links to any
documents, resources or websites that will help you complete the task.
Underneath that you might see another section called “my work”, with a link to a word
document or OneNote page, and if you have this, then you will need to open this document
and complete your work in that document. You can see this one has a link to a OneNote page,
and if I click it, it will take me to my version of that page where I need to complete my work.
Now because I’m on the PC it’s showing me the OneNote page embedded within Teams
here. If you’d rather work in OneNote itself, you can click this “open in app” and it
will take you to the OneNote app itself, which you might find works a bit better than this
embedded version. On mobile devices, it cant really embed these pages like this, so you’ll
get pushed to the app straight away. So in this task I’m being asked to complete
this table so I can just work right here in the page and type in my answer. Once I’m
done, there is no need for me to save the work and upload it – its already been taken
care of by Teams. All I need to do is close the window again and it’s automatically
saved for me.
Now if there isn’t any documents provided for me to work on listed here under “my
work”, then you might be asked to complete your work somewhere else, and then attach
your evidence to the assignment once you’re done. You can do this using the “add work”
button here. Tapping on it will bring up this pop up which will allow you to locate and
attach your work. I often just get my students to take a photo of their completed work and
attach it here. But read the instructions carefully and do whatever it is the teacher
is asking you to do. If you don’t understand something or want
to ask your teacher about something to do with this assignment, then the best place
to ask it is in the posts section of your class group. Go back to posts, find the conversation
thread that announced the homework and tap “reply”.
You might find one of your classmates has already posted the same question, in which
case you can give it a thumbs up to indicate you’re also interested in the response to
this. You might also find that a classmate has asked a question about the work that you
do know the answer to. Maybe you can reply and give them a hint to help them get started
on the task. Once you have completed your work and attached
any files, you can click this “hand in” button, which does these cute animations to
let you know your work is done and on its way to be assessed by your teacher.
Now if you do miss the deadline, depending on the assignment, you might still be able
to hand your work in, so make sure you give it a go. Note though that it will stamped
LATE in big red letters when the teacher is marking it – even if it’s just a minute
overdue, so try to not let that happen.
OK so you should now know how to find your assignment tasks set in teams and how to hand
in your completed work. Next time, I’ll explain how you get feedback
on your assignments via Teams and where you can see your grades. See you on the next video!