Managing the Microsoft Education Integration in Canvas

[GinaDonovanGC]

We are having an issue with the number of SharePoint groups being created by the Microsoft Education integration with Canvas. Faculty are using the integration, which is great, but how are people managing all of the SharePoint groups being created by this? Are there any good archive and management policies you have rolled out? Has anyone found a way to turn off the group creation by reconfiguring the settings in Canvas or O365?

[mae_case]

This is the exact same problem that happened to our institution several years ago when we installed our Microsoft Office integration to our previous LMS (Blackboard Original)! It caused a huge, confusing mess because it created creating hundreds of SharePoint sites and groups for all our old and existing courses automatically, with no way to turn the "feature" off. We promptly turned off the LTI permanently, especially since our team had to manually delete all the newly-created groups from it.

It's interesting to see this same behavior continue today in a newly-released LTI for Canvas.