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
    2020-10-28T15:31:28+00:00

    By default, students added to the class after an assignment is created won't be able to submit their work or access attached resources...but for some reason they still see the assignment.  Affected students also have those assignments grayed out in the Grades tab.

    The workaround I've found is to edit the assignment and change the Assign To setting, selecting the bottom option ("Assign to all students added to this class since [assignment creation date].").

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-05T19:32:40+00:00

    Now we're seeing the same problem attaching links:

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T14:40:47+00:00

    try shortening the name of the 2nd document.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-29T19:19:09+00:00

    Many students from my college facing same problem. They can't upload scanned file or pdf file in Assignment tab from their mobile.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-13T14:35:17+00:00

    Here in the Netherlands (Leiden), we are still unable to load documents to an Assigment that is based on a Forms quiz.

    The teacher has made several test assignments to make sure there was nothing wrong with the document limits; pdf and word are allowed etc..

    We've tried both the desktop and web versions of Teams to upload our assigment docs, yet we keep receiving the error that 'Upload of the file failed' (red tekst in Dutch "Uploaden van het bestand is mislukt").

    I even made sure that my docs were explicitly shared/open in order to choose them from my OneDrive.

    I have no idea why the docs are still being refused. They're not too large for the requirements, they are simple Word docs.

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