9 NEW features in Microsoft Teams Assignments | Video, Whiteboard, Apps & more

Learn about 9 new features in Teams Assignments 2021.The Microsoft Teams new features include Video Assignments, Whiteboard Assignments, adding EdTech apps integration, Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams updates and lots more.

📝 Table of contents
0:00 Introduction
0:14 Video Assignments
2:49 Whiteboard in Assignments
4:36 Apps in Assignments
6:08 Improvements for Word/Excel/PowerPoint web in Assignments
7:35 Return to student in Reading Progress
11:14 Pick a Reading Progress passage from OneDrive and Teams
12:21 Timer for passages in Reading Progress
12:59 Edit Assignment for Reading Progress
13:45 Keyboard shortcuts for Reading Progress

For a Microsoft Teams tutorial and lots of tips and tricks, check out my Teams quick tip video playlists:

*Connect with me on Social:

*Distance Learning Resources:

#MicrosoftTeams #Teams #MicrosoftEDU

[DemetriPanici]

Every new update to teams makes me enjoy the software even more than before. We really needed these

[aclarke]

Hi Mike. Is this available internationally? I am in the Caribbean and even though I checked for updates, I am not yet seeing these new features.

[StuartGrayEDU]

These are great updates! Our teachers are going to love the video recording option in assignments.

[chriswinn]

Hi Mike, great content as always. Is there a way you can focus on one pupil in assignments to focus on what they have produced/handed in over time?

[raracool]

Is the recording feature not going to eat into the functionality of FlipGrid? Or is there still advantages yet to FlipGrid that couldn't be implemented directly into Teams Assignments? I can understand the fact that FlipGrid has more recording features, like filters and screensharing, but is the end goal to transplant that functionality fully into Teams Assignments, and if not, why?

[wth]

Can we add an existing whiteboard? i.e. pre prepared with some question or activity

[annereiher]

I have a question: after submitting an assignment in Teams (Word-assignment), my students can see when and what I comment in the document -- i.e. before I hit the "return" button. They even get an e-mail that I commented on their paper the moment I write something. Is there a possibility to prevent that, because I don't want my students to see any comments before I have graded ALL of my students' assignment. Can I make the assignment on Teams "invisible" or inaccessible for students?

[bibbs]

Hello, new to the channel, and really loving these videos! Our program is considering switching from Moodle to Teams, as we are already using the latter for everything else, other than education. I do have one question however: is there (and if not, will there be) a GRADED discussion forum feature? Thanks.

[dianakim]

Is there plan to incorporate Immersive Reader into Reading Progress?

[ihelpcafe]

Is there a problem with video assignments recently? The students see my video prompt, but cant go any further than that. I am getting a similar issue with the new Flip. maybe it is me problem, but thought I'd see if it was more.

[renzokouken]

Some updates are not yet available in my end like the white board and video recording

Too bad

[yikwahpenner]

Hi Mike,
Love the videos! They are super helpful. I have a question about feature availability - our school is up in Canada, and I am unable to see the new video and whiteboard features in assignments. Will these features be rolled out at different times, or is there something we need to do on our end to enable it? We are able to see the new edu-apps integration, just not the video or whiteboards.

[johannesmarz]

Wow its awesome what is happening.
but is it possible to have no timelimit with the reading-progress?
At the moment the Limit is set to ca 500 Words and 6 Minutes before it stops recording.
Some of my students read pretty slow and cant manage to get it below the 6 min. Is it possible to change the time/wordlimit?

[jamesjgill]

This is magic! My French Language colleagues at my middle school say results in the late French immersion program are pretty accurate and useful.