- Hey everyone, Russell here.
Do you ever feel like those piles of paper
from your assignments just get completely overwhelming?
Or maybe right now it's more the dishes and the laundry.
Microsoft Teams Assignments can save you paper and time.
And I'm gonna show you how.
But before I do, I want you to know that Facebook
and Twitter are great places for you to ask us questions
about this video or any other ones.
So reach out and we'd love to answer those.
Now, how do you save time
and paper with Microsoft Teams Assignments?
Let's dive in.
All right, so I'm in Teams.
And we can think about assignments in two ways.
From the Me space, meaning all of the assignments
I've created across all of my classrooms, or the We space,
which focuses on assignments on a per-class basis.
Let's start in the We Space.
Here are all the teams I'm a part of.
I wanna filter for classes to make it a bit
easier to find what I'm looking for.
And there it is, my English 10-A Class Team.
Now, I need to be in the general channel
to find my assignments in Teams.
So I'll click into Assignments.
You'll see three sections here,
Drafts, these are assignments I'm working on
that aren't quite ready to be assigned yet.
And then there's Assigned.
These include assignments that need to be reviewed,
or that are still scheduled to be sent out at a later date.
Then there's Returned.
Assignments are returned when all of them
have been returned to students after being graded.
If a student turns in additional work after it's returned,
the assignment will appear back in your Assigned list
to notify you that there's work you still need to do.
All right, so let's create a new assignment.
You can see I'm given three options here, Assignment, Quiz,
which uses Microsoft Forms,
or From existing, which is just like it sounds,
creating an assignment from one
you've already done in the past.
Let's create a new one.
Let's create a character analysis essay.
I wanna call out categories,
because it's a really helpful way to organize your work.
Educators can organize by units, projects or subjects.
We'll use a type of work here, so essay.
And I'll fill the instructions out quickly.
Now I'll click Add Resources.
Here you can attach additional documents
or links to your assignment.
You can create a new file or OneNote notebook page
as part of the assignment.
I'm gonna choose a preexisting class notebook page.
You will need to have a OneNote Class Notebook
already set up to do this.
There's a link that shows you
how to do that in the description below.
I'm gonna place this in my Content Library,
which is a section that students can pull copies from
into their own personal notebooks for me to review later.
And here it is, the Character Analysis Essay.
Now I need to choose where I want this
to show up in my students' binders.
This is homework.
Now onto points.
I can add a simple point amount for this assignment,
say 100 points, or I can add a rubric.
There are a few different options here.
If you to see how to create a rubric,
there's a link below walking you through those steps.
I'll choose a preexisting rubric.
This looks good to me, so I'll attach it, Assign.
So this is where I can choose which classes
to assign this essay to.
I can choose my English 10-A,
or I can select any other class.
I can also select which students I want to assign this to.
The default here is All Students, which works fine for me.
Now to due date, I'll change it
to seven a.m. for a morning delivery,
and set the due date for about a week out.
Now, here's where I can schedule this assignment
to be sent out at a future date.
Let's say I don't wanna to hit my students
with this right away when they get back from the weekend.
So I'll send it out on Tuesday morning at seven a.m.
That looks good.
I'll click Done quickly.
You'll see up above here that the Assign button
changes to Schedule, just to make it clear
that this assignment isn't going out right away.
Let's change this back.
I'll unclick that.
Okay, due date's set to Monday the 14th, that's fine.
Now Close Date, this basically allows me
to close this assignment so there aren't any late turnins.
I can also set it for a date
after the due date in case I do want to allow
for late turn ins for less points.
I won't use that feature for this assignment, though.
So I'll click Done.
And now Assign, you'll see Character Analysis Essay
pops up in my Assigned list of work.
If I click into my newly created assignment,
I'll be able to track which of my students
has viewed or turned in their homework.
And I can leave feedback and give points.
I can also review work I've already returned to my students.
And here's a pretty cool feature.
If I click the dot, dot, dot up in the top right,
I can use Student View to make sure
everything looks all right.
You'll see Immersive Reader
works right within the assignment.
And one last thing, to view all
of your assignments across all of your classrooms,
just click over here in the Me space.
And here you'll see all of your assignments
across all your classes in one place.
But that's it, that's how to
create an assignment in Microsoft Teams.
And if you have any questions
about grading these assignments
or adding a rubric into an assignment,
I link out to those videos below, but that's it for today.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'm here every Monday and Thursday.
Be bold, keep learning, and we'll see you next time.
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