Additional assignment-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for Education
Hello @megan smith and everyone,
Thank you for your patience and for reporting the issue.
Here’s the latest update on the service incident:
- Current Status: Service has been fully restored. The incident occurred between 08:09 and 15:30 UTC on November 12, 2025.
- Impact: EDU tenants in the Europe region experienced issues opening or loading assignments and grades in Teams.
- What Happened: A failure in a subsection of infrastructure serving EDU users caused temporary service degradation. Engineering applied targeted mitigations, restarted backend components, scaled additional infrastructure, and adjusted configurations to restore service.
- Next Steps: Microsoft engineering is reviewing contributing factors and will publish a Post‑Incident Report (PIR) summarizing the root cause and prevention measures.
If you still experience issues:
- Sign out of Teams and sign back in.
- Clear the Teams cache, then restart the app.
- Try the web app at https://teams.microsoft.com.
If problems persist, please create a new Q&A thread in this forum so we can investigate your specific scenario. Root causes often vary by environment, account type, add-ins, and recent changes. A dedicated thread helps avoid cross‑signals and speeds up troubleshooting.
We sincerely apologize for the disruption and appreciate your understanding.