Setting assignments/homework in Microsoft Teams

Creating synced assignments

If you need results to be sent back to Teams, there are two ways you can access the My assignments area to set work for your students.

Go to My assignments in the My School tab. Click 'Create new' or edit an existing assignment.
Click on the 'Create assignment' button directly from the Dictionary, Tests or Lessons areas.

Editing synced assignments

Select 'Sync with Microsoft Teams' if needed - it will be selected by default for new assignments.
Choose your class(es).
Set your start and end dates.
Click Preview to check through (optional).
Click 'Set assignment' to send to your students.

The above shows the basic actions for setting an assignment, based on using an existing Focus on Sound lesson. More detailed guidance on creating different types of assignments can be found here.

Once you have sent the assignment, you can edit it in Teams, but this does not update the information in Focus on Sound.

Caution - when you click 'Set assignment', the assignment is set for the class(es) you have chosen. Unticking a class will destroy the link with that class . Don't use this system as a template for other lessons with other classes - you can click 'Duplicate' instead. Also, changing the name of an existing custom lesson can cause problems with the result saving system so we have prevented that action.

Editing the assignment in Teams

You may want to edit individual class assignments, so that each class has its own start and end date. You can also specify the exact time it's posted and due.

Figure 1 above shows where you click Edit to allow late-joiners to the class to do the work.

Figure 2 shows where you can specify the exact time of posting, by clicking the Edit button. The default start date is one day ahead. As long as you set the time to be later than the current time, you can schedule the start time to be the same day.

It's important not to untick the box in the screenshot below. All assignments are in the future, even if it starts in 5 minutes time. Unticking the box moves your assignment to draft and will result in the results link being lost.

Sending results back to Teams

Microsoft doesn't allow students to send their own results. It has to be the teacher that presses the button. The way we do this is with the 'Save to Teams' button in the Focus on Sound class results system.

Find the assignment you want to send results to Teams for, and click 'Save to Teams' at the top:

If any students' results are still shown as 'Missing' in Teams, although marks are shown in Focus on Sound results, the student has probably not fully completed the assignment. When the students have completed the assignment you can click the 'Save to Teams' button again. The final marks should now appear.

Confused about the pages seen figure in FoS lesson results? Go here.