Create Assignments in Teams for Education

Creating an assignment in Microsoft Teams

With the Assignments app in Microsoft Teams for Education you create tasks, share them with your class and grade the work that's turned in. Students see all their tasks in one place, with due dates and feedback. This article walks you through creating an assignment and how students turn it in. You need a class team in a tenant with an education license such as Microsoft 365 A1, A3 or A5.

What do you need?

A class team in Teams. That team type automatically gets the tabs for assignments, grades and the Class Notebook.
A teacher account (owner of the team).

No class team yet? See how to create a class team and set up the Class Notebook.

Create an assignment

Open the class team and go to the Assignments tab.
Click Create > Assignment. You can also choose a quiz built with Microsoft Forms.
Add a title and clear instructions.
Use Add to attach files, links or other resources. For a Word file you can choose whether each student gets their own copy to edit.
Set the number of points and optionally add a rubric with criteria and levels.
Choose who gets the assignment: the whole class, a group or individual students.
Set the due date. In the settings you also choose when the assignment becomes visible and whether late turn-ins are allowed.
Click Assign, or save the assignment as a draft.

Creating a new assignment in a class team

Instructions, points and due date of an assignment

How students turn in work

The student opens the class team and chooses Assignments, or clicks the notification in Teams.
They open the assignment, work in the attached file or add their own work.
They click Turn in. Undoing the turn-in is possible as long as the assignment is open.