Adjust assignment settings in your class team

Applies To
Microsoft Teams for Education

Save time when you create assignments for students in a class by choosing default assignment settings.

  1. Navigate to your desired classroom and select Assignments.
  2. Select Settings Settings icon ⁠.⁠

settings

Assignment Settings

assignment settings

  • Assignment timeline: Select a default due time for future assignments.

  • Calendar: Choose whether future assignments should be added to Teams and Outlook calendars.

    • Students and me: add assignments to Teams and Outlook calendars of you and your students.
    • Students and team owners: add assignments to Teams and Outlook calendars of students and team owners only
    • Students only: add assignments to Teams and Outlook calendars of students only.
  • Notifications

    • Choose a default channel in your class team for assignment notifications to post.
    • Turn on notifications when a student turns in an assignment late.
  • New students: Determine whether new students will receive assignments created before they joined the class.

  • Fun stuff: Enable turn-in celebrations. These are animations that play when a student turns in their assignment.

Tip

To check on your full class team roster, navigate to your class team and select More options  More options button  > Manage teams.

  • manage teams

Your settings will be applied to future assignments after you save your changes. You can still modify settings for individual assignments.

Grades Settings

grade settings

  • Grading Schemes: This is set to a point-based system by default, but new schemes can also be added by choosing the Add schemes button.
  • Average grade: Toggle on whether students should be allowed to check their grade percentage.
  • Weighted grading categories: Set assignment types and assign weights to reflect importance.

Learn more

Create an assignment

Set up weighted grading categories in Teams Assignments