Microsoft Education First Time Setup
Microsoft Education is a Canvas LTI tool that allows instructors to access all Microsoft features in Canvas from one location. Instructors don't have to add multiple course navigation links to use several different Microsoft features in Canvas. Adding Microsoft Education in your Canvas course facilitates embedding of Microsoft OneDrive files, assigning OneDrive files to students for assignments, creating a Teams group matching the course roster, scheduling Teams meetings, allows students to submit OneDrive files to assignments, and collaborate using OneDrive files or a OneNote notebook.
- In your Canvas course then open Settings (A). Select Navigation. Active items appear on the top list while disabled items appear on the bottom list. Scroll down to find Microsoft Education then click the vetical three dots (C) next to it and select + Enable. Click Save.
- Find and select Microsoft Education in course navigation. if it is not present, reload the browser page. Choose Continue Setup.
- All available features are set to Show by default. Hide the tools not needed for the course.
- OneDrive (A) allows OneDrive features, such as cloud assignments, collaborations, or OneDrive uploads to file submission assignments to be used in your course. Toggle this off if not desired. Office of Learning Technologies recommends leaving this on.
- Class Notebook (B) allows creation of a OneNote Class notebook for your course. Toggle this to hide if not desired.
- Meetings (C) allows scheduling and launching Teams virtual meetings from Canvas. Toggle this to hide if not desired.
- Teams (D) shows the link to access your Class Team from Microsoft Education. To add a Microsoft Teams team that will dynamically update to match your course roster, toggle Add Microsoft Teams (E).
- Done (F) to save your settings.
- Microsoft Education (A) will now be a gateway to multiple tools. To access OneDrive files, click on the large OneDrive (A) located on the dashboard. Once logged in, your OneDrive folder library will be available inside Canvas. You can view OneDrive documents, submit assignments, or start collaborations from this page and other locations in the course. To learn more about OneDrive visit the OneDrive page. Class Notebook (B) can be accessed just by selecting the Class Notebook (B) on the Microsoft Education dashboard. Meetings (C) allows you to create, record and share virtual class meetings. Teams (D) is a link to the Teams group for the course. To learn more about these features, visit the Microsoft Teams page.
- If you wish to enable or disable any of the above features at a later time, you can do so by clicking on your name icon in the top-right corner of your dashboard and selecting Course Settings. This will take you to the feature enable/disable page, where you can modify your current settings.