TEAMS - Accessing Assignments Parents Tutorial

There is a lot to take in when you look at an assignment. Below is a brief breakdown of everything that could be on the screen.

This is the title of the assignment/homework

website that has been added by the teacher

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Click Teams tab at the left-hand side of the screen.  Click on the individual team, this allows you to see a list of posts from the teacher and or the class.  This a school resource but an area for you to have online discussions surrounding the class.  Should you have a question for the teacher, use the @ then their name for a notification to be sent to them.

How to check feedback/grades

Click assignments tab at the left-hand side of the screen.  This will then display the teams that you are assigned to.  Click on an individual team to see the assignments issued for that subject (you will need to do this for each subject), then select next.  Under the completed tab, you should see the assignments you have submitted to be marked.  Select your chosen assignment  You should now see a selection of feedback.  If you click on “My work” the teacher may have given you written comments directly on your work along with marks.  Coming out of this, the teacher may also have given your some comments under the Feedback heading.  In addition to this, if their were points assigned to the assignment these will also be displayed.  Finally, if a Rubric has been attached to the assignment, this will also have been completed. By clicking on the Rubric the item in purple is how you have been graded for this piece of work.

The following guide will take you through the steps for understanding how to access important features in Microsoft Teams that will help to support you and your child, when learning from home.

Once your child has submitted their work. The teacher will review this work and provide feedback. Once the teacher has done this, they will return the work to you child to, either, add more to the work or to finalise with feedback. It is likely that your child will get a notification to tell them that they have an assignment returned to them. This will appear as a small red sign above the &apos;Activity&apos; tab at the bottom of the page. The following steps will guide you through how to review this feedback so that you might be able to help your child progress at home.

Select &apos;Assignment&apos; from the &apos;More&apos; tab in the class or select the &apos;Activity&apos; tab

Select the assignment that has already been submitted

Your teacher may have added a Rubric to your child&apos;s work. If they have then this Rubric will provide you with quick information about where they are sitting in their learning. Watch the following video to give you an insight into what Rubrics is and does.

You will notice up in the top right corner &apos;Feedback&apos;. The comments will be underneath this for you and you child to read and review. If the teacher has provided marks you will also see the marks under &apos;Points&apos;

Now that you are able to see how to access the assignments you can now look, in more detail, at each assignment so that you might be able to help your child with their learning. To do this, complete the following steps.

You will now find all of the information in front of you for the assignment.

The following page will break down each area of this screen.

Now that your child has finished their work, they can now hand it in. If they have completed the work directly in the assignments, as previously demonstrated, then all they have to do is click the &apos;hand in&apos; button. If they have completed the work elsewhere, they will need to navigate to the file by clicking on the &apos;+ Add Work&apos; button at the bottom of the assignment.

How to access assignments

Click assignments tab at the left-hand side of the screen.  This will then display the teams that you are assigned to.  Click on an individual team to see the assignments issued for that subject (you will need to do this for each subject), then select next.  Select the assignment you wish to complete.  Depending on the setup of thee assignment you should be given instructions, a rubric, reference material and “My Work” which is editable.   Read the Instructions  Click on Rubric to see the expectations and how your work will be graded  Open and read through the reference material (can be in the form of a weblink, PowerPoint, Video or Document)  Click on “My Work” this will open up the item for you to edit.  On the bar along the top, click, “Edit Document” then select Edit (this will allow the document to open up on the web and save you from downloading the application, Word, PowerPoint etc)  Once you have completed your “My Work” click close at the top right, this will return you to the instruction page.  Once happy that you have completed all areas click “Hand In” at the top right, this will submit your work to your teacher.

Assignment are where the teacher will issue homework. The teacher may also use this for classroom activities or assignments that last for a few weeks. This guide will show you how to access the assignments for each of your child&apos;s classes so that you can get an understanding of what they are doing and how you can perhaps help them.

Select the &apos;Teams&apos; icon on the iPad

Select the class you want to look at on the right hand side

Select the &apos;more&apos; tab at the top right of the panel

Select &apos;Assignments&apos; from the drop down menu

You will now see all of the assignments that your child has for that specific subject.

There are a few different ways that you can add work to an assignment. You can upload directly from your device, once you have finished the work, you can add it from your OneDrive account or you can create a document and work on it directly in the assignment. Here are the steps on how to do this.

You will now see a series of options on how to share your work. For this tutorial, select &apos;+ New file&apos; button

Name you document. TOP TIP - Always put your last name, followed by your first name and then the assignment title. This will help your teacher to get your information quickly.

You will now see the document added to the bottom of the page. To access this, simply click on the work and it will take you to a blank page.

Tap on the icon at the top right of the screen that looks like and pen and paper. This will automatically open up the word document.

You can now begin writing in the word document and all of the work will automatically update in the assignment. Once you have finished your work, you can simply click the &apos;Hand in&apos; button and you&apos;re done!

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