Teams students assignments "submitted" and "working files" folders

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Teams students assignments "submitted" and "working files" folders

Martin Gospodinov 6

Hello,
I've asked my question in the article that I'll mention, but there is no reply so I'll try here because I'm hard pressed from my client.
According to this article - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-for-education/microsoft-teams-assignments-and-sharepoint-documents/m-p/287119/highlight/false#M105
When a student uploads a file for an assignment, the file is automatically added to this student's "Working files" folder in SharePoint. When he clicks the "Turn in" button, the file is copied to the "Submitted files" folder but should stay in the "Working files" folder too. The problem is that this is not valid for media (i.e. ".jpg", ".png") files. When a student clicks on the "Turn in" button media files disappear from "Working files" folder. From the Microsoft support they said this is default behavior but I can't find any confirmation about this. So I would be very grateful if a Microsoft representative can confirm this and give me a link to a documentation where this is specified so I can show it to my client.
Thanks!

Echo Du_MSFT 17,316 Reputation points

2022-02-04T01:31:15.863+00:00

Hello @Martin Gospodinov ，

This is a quick note to let you know that we are performing research on this issue.

Thanks,
Echo Du

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Echo Du_MSFT 17,316 Reputation points

2022-02-04T01:31:15.863+00:00

Hello @Martin Gospodinov ，

This is a quick note to let you know that we are performing research on this issue.

Thanks,
Echo Du

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Echo Du_MSFT 17,316

Hello @Martin Gospodinov ，

Welcome to Q&A Forum!

For your needs, we recommend that you can use Power Automate to achieve your needs.

Please follow the steps:

1.In the SharePoint Document Library creates two folders: Submitted files and Working files

2.Click Integrate >> Power Automate >> Create a flow

3.Create the below Microsoft Flow

4.Save and Test this flow

5.Here is my test: When I upload a media file (i.e. ".jpg", ".png"), after a few seconds, this media file appears in the [Submitted files] and [Working files].

Thanks,
Echo Du

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Echo Du_MSFT 17,316 Reputation points

2022-02-07T01:09:27.163+00:00

Hi @Martin Gospodinov ，

Is there anything else I can help with regarding this issue?

You can comment us at any time and we will continue to follow up.

Thanks,
Echo Du
Martin Gospodinov 6 Reputation points

2022-02-07T15:55:11.183+00:00

That could be a workaround. Probably I could think of something working with Teams Assignments. I'll have to think about some kind of automation, since we currently have 988,502 groups in the tenant and it's impossible to make flows by hand for each of them. But I was thinking if there's some kind of official documentation about this issue. A place where it's specified that media files are not retained in the "Working Files" folder when students Turn in their assignments.
Echo Du_MSFT 17,316 Reputation points

2022-02-09T07:31:18.923+00:00

Hi @Martin Gospodinov ，

Thanks for your reply.

According to your description, your problem is more related to Microsoft Teams for Education. Therefore, it is hard to troubleshot this issue via community, we suggest you open a ticket from Microsoft for further help.

Thanks,
Echo Du
Martin Gospodinov 6 Reputation points

2022-02-10T07:02:35.13+00:00

Well I have opened a ticket and they try to tell me this is the default behavior. I couldn't find any documentation that confirms this, they also couldn't provide such documentation, which lead to my post here. Now as I think about it, I can probably find whatever documentation is currently available in Github and raise an issue to add this strange behavior. I'm thinking that this is not intentional, but rather the machine learning algorithm has decided that this way it will save space and that why it's not documented anywhere. Anyway, thank you very much for your effort and desire to help!

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