School Data Sync Best Practices (Classes/Teams/Channels)

[yc_rs_bf]

Hi all,

 

I am currently setting up School Data Sync to create Teams for a large FE College. I've ran a few test profiles and they appear to be syncing up and creating teams without too many issues (after a lot of fiddling).

 

Can anyone share any ideas on best practices regarding the organisation of teams? Our current best idea is to create teams for each course (eg. AS Chemistry) and have channels for each class (Class 1, Class 2 ...) within each team. Is this possible? I've currently got one team for the course with all the teachers and students in it and it has automatically generated channels named after each tutor, but with all students and other teachers inside.

 

Thanks very much for any help.

[willtech]

For sixth form sites we do a team for each class. Problem you will have doing it via channels it you will not be able to control permissions. It can only be done at a team level. Also some features where you can invite the whole team you might not be able to easily exclude certain members. Edited July 22, 2020 by willtech

[tapb]

This is new. Have you seen this?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/9-awesome-updates-for-it-admins-and-back-to-school-deployment/ba-p/1537468

[yc_rs_bf]

I've just seen this post this morning. This is fantastic news. Thanks for sharing.

[tapb]

Best Practice is to have a team for each class. Teachers can distribute assignments and posts to multiple classes.