How to turn on/off weekly assignment summary emails for parents in Microsoft Teams per class

In Microsoft Teams Assignments, a weekly assignment summary email can be sent automatically to parents and guardians of students. This is?an easy way?to inform and engage parents in their child’s homework, as the digest gives them an overview of what assignments have been completed and which are yet to be handed in.?

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The weekly summaries are distributed over the weekend and display all the subjects where homework has been set.??

As you can see from this example, this student has an English Language reading assignment that is yet to be handed in and two German assignments – one that is complete and one that needs to be finished.??

Currently, the email shows the due date and hand-in status of each assignment, but not the grades for turned-in assignments.??

At the bottom, there is a “Coming up” section, which displays assignment deadlines that are approaching.??

In this short guide, we show you how to turn on and off these weekly assignment summary emails per class.??

How to turn on and off weekly assignment summaries for parents/guardians.???

1. Head to Teams Assignments.??
2. Select the gear icon on the right-hand side?to open?Assignment Settings.??
3. Scroll down to the?Parent/guardian email?section. There is an option to “Send a weekly email about assignments to parents and guardians” that you can?toggle?on/off.??
4. To turn off emails, switch it?to?No.?
5. To turn on emails, switch it to?Yes.??

Note: If you do turn off the weekly email notification, this turns it off for the whole class. Unfortunately, it cannot be turned on/off for?individual?students.???

If you come into the?Assignment?Settings and this?option?isn’t?there, it needs to be activated by your local IT administrator.???

Are you using weekly assignment emails for your class???

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