Microsoft Teams – Assignments for Specific Channels Without Selecting Students Individually

Hi everyone,

Our secondary school is implementing Microsoft Teams with one Team per subject per year level (e.g., "Year 8 Science") instead of separate Teams for each class. The challenge is that multiple teachers teach different classes within the same Team.

We want to:

1. Set assignments that are only visible to students in a specific channel (without manually selecting students one by one).
2. Grade assignments so that teachers only see and mark the work of students in their own class/channel, rather than all students in the Team.

What We've Tried:

• Private Channels & Standard Channels: We found that you can’t assign work to a specific channel, whether it’s private or not.
• Groups: While you can assign work to a group, you still have to manually select each student, which isn’t practical. The alternative is a random selection, which doesn’t help.
• Saving Groups: You can’t save groups for future use, meaning we’d have to manually recreate them each time we set an assignment.

Has anyone found a workaround for this? Are there settings, apps, or best practices that could help?

Thanks in advance for any advice!