The ability to hand in work on behalf of students in Microsoft Teams Assignments has been long-awaited by teachers, alongside being able to view assignment history of individual students. 

In this guide, we show you how to view assignment history and submit student work as a teacher in Teams Assignments.

How to view assignment history in Microsoft Teams Assignments. 

Viewing assignment history is particularly useful as it helps you as a teacher get an overview of where the student is with the assignment – whether they’ve viewed the work, if they’ve attempted to complete it or if they need more guidance.  

It also cuts out the excuse of “not knowing about the homework”, because you can now see if they really viewed the task or not.  

1. Go into one of your assignments in Teams and view the list of students who have been set this work. 
2. Select a student to open up their assignment. 
3. In the left-hand side marking panel, select View History. This brings up an overview of where the student is with the assignment.

In this example, we can see that we set the work on 11/05/2022 at 14:11 and Susan viewed it around 20 minutes later.  

Here’s what it looks like when the student has handed in their work. 

How to hand in work on behalf of a student in Microsoft Teams Assignments. 

A much-anticipated feature in Teams is the ability for teachers to take actions on behalf of students – for example, upload files and turn in work for students. 

1. Go into one of your assignments in Teams and view the list of students who have been set this work. 
2. Select a student to open up their assignment. 
3. Select Take action in student view in the left-hand side marking panel.  
4. From here, you can attach files and select Hand in to hand in their assignment on their behalf.  
5. The student and teacher have the option to Undo hand-in.  

Note: The assignment history will tell you whether the assignment has been turned in by the student or the teacher. 

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