Marking Assignments on teams

Question

Hi,
I'm a teacher and I have recently trialed the function assignments with a class. My aim is to be able to mark all their submitted work through teams, yet I wasn't able to write comments (on ipad with ipen) into pdf or jpeg documents. The only document that I was able to write on and add comments to was a word document. To me, that is a bit dodgy, since I was also able to edit the actual document and thus the student's work during the process of marking it.
So my question is, can one only mark and return word documents through teams, without the added hassle of downloading the document first and mailing it seperately to the students, or are there options to allow online editing in teams of other file formats?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Vera

Answer 1

Hi!

In my experience, there is no built-in editor in Microsoft Teams if you want to edit PDF in Microsoft Teams. The only format we can edit it in Teams are Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Visio files. If your format is pdf, we recommend you convert it to words and then you can add comments and edit it in Microsoft Teams.

If the workaround is not helpful to you, we recommend you give your feedback in Teams UserVoice. (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/)Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience, some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future, and your good ideas will be very helpful for them to improve the service.

Answer 2

Hi,
I provided one solution to teachers of my school to mark assignment on Teams or for Microsoft Teams assignment or online paper corrections ( pdf format) using Acrobat Reader feature.
Please check this video created by me regarding the same.

https://youtu.be/nXWuxOrk3Qs

Regards,
Suparna

Answer 3

This is an unbelievable feature ommision. I've used Google Classroom extensively for the past several years in which students can submit Docs and I can simply tap the markup button and I get a PDF copy to markup right in Classroom.

I've recently moved to a college that disallows Classroom in favour of Teams, now I find out that you cannot markup student work on Teams? This is WEAK. I might as well not bother setting assignments on Teams anymore.