Cannot Upload Files to Teams Assignments "There was a problem attaching this file."

Anonymous
2020-04-12T20:21:24+00:00

Hi there, in some of our Teams, users are unable to upload files to Assignments. They get the error message "There was a problem attaching this file. Please remove and try again".

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T13:39:37+00:00

    I have the same problem with a limited number of Students who cannot attach files to assignments to turn them in. Frustrating.... the error message saying an erorr occured is really helpful as well :-(

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T13:52:05+00:00

    I am having the same issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-27T19:53:16+00:00

    Your assignment has a OneNote attachment.  Did you create the assignment in OneNote?  If you did, this is a common error that Microsoft has yet to fix. When you create an assignment in OneNote, you will not be able upload anything else to it, and you get that message.  

    The work around is to create the assignment in Teams first, then add the OneNote page you want to use.

    Hope this helps

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-27T20:16:45+00:00

    Thanks for your response. We did determine that creating the assignment in OneNote is what creates this issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-27T23:04:51+00:00

    I have never created assignments through OneNote - so this is probably not related.

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