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01/06/2021: The new OneDrive LTI for Canvas is generally available!! See all the details in the post below. Thanks to my friends from LTI office hours for reminding me to update this page 😊
10/06/2021: The new OneDrive LTI for Canvas is now available for public preview - without the need for a preview agreement! See below for more information and how to get started.
9/12/2021: The full course on the new integrations is available on the Microsoft Educator Center! The link is here: Connect faculty and learners with Canvas and Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Educator Center. We also have a webinar we are running live on Tuesday, September 14th to hear directly from Microsoft and Canvas about the new integrations:
The webinar will be held on Sept. 14, 2021 and two time options to provide customers in various time zones to attend:
- For Event Option 1: September 14, 8AM PDT: Registration Link Here : https://aka.ms/CanvasMicrosoftWebinar1
- For Event Option 2: September 14, 5PM PDT: Registration Link Here: https://aka.ms/CanvasMicrosoftWebinar2
We look forward to your customers joining this important webinar to learn how they can provide their educators and students with a “better together” rewarding solution, and leave with tools and resources ready to launch success.
8/31/2021: Two updates: We would love to invite any customers that are interested in the OneDrive private preview to reach out to lmsintegrations@microsoft.com to get signed up. In addition, we would invite all customers who have been using the Teams and Teams Meetings integrations to fill out this survey: Teams and LMS Integrations (office.com) to give feedback and help our product team prioritize their roadmap. Thank you!
8/11/2021: We've been receiving questions about whether or not customers should still fill out the form now that the Teams classes and Teams meetings integrations have released publicly. The answer is YES! Filling out the form allows our customer success team to know you're interested in the integrations and send you information about how to self deploy the integrations and get help if you run into any issues. The form can be found here: aka.ms/lmsintegration
8/10/2021: The new Teams meetings LTI is here!
7/23/2021: Latest updates:
- We’ve re-organized this page to make information easier to find.
- We also encourage interested readers to subscribe to this page to stay current on the latest updates. To subscribe, click the kabob menu (the three vertical dots on the upper right side of the page) and select Subscribe.
- The FAQ has been updated to reflect some of your most recent questions.
7/21/2021: We wanted to inform you all that our release timeline for the new OneDrive integration has been pushed back. We don't know the exact dates, but we are working hard to accelerate the delivery date as much as possible. We are also targeting the release of a full course on the Microsoft Educator Center and Microsoft Learn about the new integrations next month. I've been informed that community members aren't able to comment on this page - so I've been answering questions here: Canvas + Microsoft Upcoming LTI Integrations (canvaslms.com). Feel free to @ mention SamanthaFisher there with questions.
7/16/2021: The Teams classes LTI app will be available for all Canvas customers by Friday, 7/23! This app will allow educators to create Teams for their Canvas courses, and gives students and educators an easy launch point into Teams from Canvas. We are so excited to role out this integration and get your feedback!
7/6/2021: Click-through demos are now ready and posted below and in the Educator PD and support documentation section! Please reach out to LMSIntegrations@microsoft.com with additional questions.
6/9/2021: The new integrations between Canvas and Microsoft 365 are coming this summer! See below for the latest info on what new capabilities are coming, links to professional development resources, FAQs, and how to get more info.
5/28/2021: What's new in Microsoft Teams - Office Support
Microsoft 365 with Canvas
Microsoft 365 already has a number of helpful integrations with Canvas, including:
- Creating a Teams meeting link from the rich content editor
- Creating assignments and using SpeedGrader with Office 365 documents
- Creating OneNote Class Notebooks for each of your Canvas courses
- Leveraging the power of Microsoft's Immersive Reader on Canvas Pages
We are excited to be expanding on these capabilities in Summer 2021 with a collection of new LTI apps for OneDrive, Teams classes (now available!), and Teams meetings (now available). You can view an overview of the existing and new integrations in the attached presentation and get answers to your most pressing questions in the FAQ below.
Looking for assistance in getting set up with the new M365 LTIs as soon as they are available? Let us know by filling out the form and our customer success team will contact you with information on how to begin.
The wait is over! Microsoft OneDrive LTI is now generally available.
Microsoft OneDrive LTI is now generally available for all Canvas customers. Microsoft OneDrive LTI has rolled out to all customers and is no longer in preview. Microsoft OneDrive LTI brings the best of OneDrive and Office365 directly into Canvas. Educators can access their OneDrive files right within Canvas, add Office 365 files to modules and assignments, and grade Office 365 files in the Canvas SpeedGrader. Students can work on Office 365 cloud assignments, submit OneDrive files directly from Canvas in response to their assignments, and collaborate using Office 365 files within Canvas.
The new Microsoft OneDrive LTI has several exciting new features:
- Users can add multiple OneDrive school accounts
- Fully supports Canvas course copy
- New and improved OneDrive file picker experience
- Link or embed Office 365 files in modules and assignments
- Use Office 365 files in Canvas Collaborations
- And more!
To help you prepare for deploying this integration, we have provided the following resources:
- Admin documentation: Use Microsoft OneDrive Learning Tools Interoperability | Microsoft Docs
- Educator documentation: Use Microsoft OneDrive with your LMS
- Click through demo: M365 LTI Apps and Canvas - OneDrive (octe.azurewebsites.net)
- Microsoft Educator Center Course: Connect faculty and learners with Canvas and Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Educator Center
If you’d like deployment assistance, please visit our scheduling form and select LTI Integrations Deployment to book a convenient day and time that works best for you and your team, including your Canvas administrator and your Microsoft tenant administrator.
Still have questions? Join our weekly LTI Open Office Hours with our LMS Integrations team. To attend, join our Teams Meeting during the following times:
- Every Wednesday at 4:30 PM Pacific Time
- Every Thursday from 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Teams classes LTI for Canvas is here!
You've asked for an easy way for educators to create class Teams for their Canvas courses and the wait is over. Educators will now be able to create class Teams based on the enrollment roster of their courses with appropriate user roles. Once the team is created, educators and students will be able to navigate to their associated class teams directly from their Canvas courses using desktop, mobile, or web platforms.
Please refer to the following resources for deployment:
- Administrator deployment documentation
- Click-through demo on set up in Canvas
- Educator documentation on using Microsoft Teams classes
- How to use Teams for education resources
- Requirements and limitations of the Teams classes integration
Sign up to our interest form to get started and receive email updates.
Teams meetings LTI is now available!
Teams meetings LTI empowers educators and students to access and schedule Teams meetings for the class directly from Canvas using desktop, mobile, or web platforms.
To help you prepare for deploying this integration, we have provided the following resources:
- Administrator deployment documentation
- Educator documentation for getting started with Teams meetings
- Teams meetings LTI click-through demo
- Using Teams meetings (for educators and students)
If you’d like deployment assistance, please visit our scheduling form and select LTI Integrations Deployment to book a convenient day and time that works best for you and your team, including your Canvas administrator and your Microsoft tenant administrator.
Still have questions? Join our weekly LTI Open Office Hours with our LMS Integrations team.
Open Office Hours
Have questions about the integrations or the deployment process? Join our weekly LTI Open Office Hours with our LMS Integrations team, including representatives from our customer success deployment team and our product teams. To attend, join our Teams meeting during the following times:
- Every Wednesday at 4:30 PM Pacific Time
- Every Thursday from 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Training and Documentation
Admin documentation
Our IT admin documentation describes the configuration process for new integrations.
Educator documentation
Our educator documentation describes how to use the LTI apps for educators.
Click-through Demos
Our interactive click-through demos give an overview of how to set up and use the new LTIs in Canvas:
Microsoft Educator Center Course
Connect faculty and learners with Canvas and Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Educator Center.
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Hi @SamanthaFisher
Further to my previous posts, we were planning on switching over to the new Canvas – Teams meetings LTI integration Monday 23rd August. However, we have encountered an issue which means we cannot at this moment in time proceed until we understand from MS how to resolve, I will describe below the steps taken :
We have been using two modules for testing. Each of which has a number of staff added for testing purposes. All of those staff have had their email changed to UPN format, so that they can be recognised by MS. In the two modules the sync option has been turned on, as detailed on this canvas page : How do I sync course data in Canvas with Microsoft... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)
Within the module, when creating a new teams meeting, the organiser selects to add entire class:
The behaviour that we then observe, is that some of the class are added and some are not. In the 1st screen shot below, you will see that 7 different users have been added to the meeting.
However, if you look on the following screenshot, you will see that in the actual module list of users there are many more users that have not been added
Of the users in the list above, there are two that do not have associated MS accounts, so we wouldn’t expect them to sync but all others we would, and in fact when we check the associated team that was created for this same module they appear in the team. So this suggests that the issue is something to do with how the users have been picked up via the Teams meetings Integration.
Our developer suggested that could this be an issue related to the enrolments that do not have Microsoft accounts in the module? Ie when whatever script encounters them it is causing an error and not then adding the rest of the participants?
We would really appreciate understanding what is happening and if this is something that can be resolved quickly, because we were planning to release this next week but now need to delay until we know this is going to work.
