O365 - Teams and moving to new Classes for the year

[Warwick_Tech]

Hi All,

 

Fun with Teams -

as everyone has moved up a year we re-created all our new classes, easy - I even had a nice guide to copy any assignments to a new team to save time

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/repost-an-assignment-in-microsoft-teams-f1c81ec0-ac61-49e5-b551-8d6a792f0d7b

 

Oh but there's an issue - See it doesn't give the option to copy across the work too; so users continuing projects from last year have to use the archived team, not the new team

 

What's best practice in this situation? I even thought moving the files via sharepoint was an acceptable answer, but this gives all students access to others work which is cheating!

 

One of these days I will retire.

[supportman]

We just create teams manually and name them with a year such as 2021-2024 for work that goes over multiple years.

 

Found it much easier than using auto rollovers or whatever.

 

We allow the teachers to make these teams but give them guidance and naming structure.

[Jawloms]

We rename any teams which are going to be used the following year. Powershell scripts are wonderful!

[titch]

We just create teams manually and name them with a year such as 2021-2024 for work that goes over multiple years.

 

Found it much easier than using auto rollovers or whatever.

 

We allow the teachers to make these teams but give them guidance and naming structure.

Do you then manually add students to the classes?

[supportman]

Do you then manually add students to the classes?

 

No we use class distribution lists that sync from Bromcom/Salamander. Teacher just has to type in the class list name to add all students.

[titch]

No we use class distribution lists that sync from Bromcom/Salamander. Teacher just has to type in the class list name to add all students.

Do these still sync through the year is is it manual add/remove?

[supportman]

Do these still sync through the year is is it manual add/remove?

 

They don't sync after the first import, but teachers are aware of how to add or remove members. We've not had any issue with this system so far.

 

Certinaly worked a lot better than the auto SDS sync.

[KK20]

look at dynamic membership group that has a team attached. this is a pain if you have MANY teams to set up

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/dynamic-memberships

 

It does mean that owners cant add members manually though. I use this for our clubs teams such as DofE, that way the teams update themselves without much interaction from me.