Enable Microsoft OneDrive assignments
You need to enable Microsoft OneDrive assignments in Canvas to ensure that students are able to utilize Microsoft OneDrive within their courses.
Navigate to your Canvas course.
Go to Settings [1].
Go to Navigation tab [2].
Enable Office 365 [3] by dragging it to the enable list.
Refresh the browser page.
Create a Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Assignment
Cloud assignments are templated assignments. All students get their own copy of the assignment and can edit their own copy. When students submit the assignment, their own copy gets submitted and is available to you in the speed grader for grading.
Microsoft OneDrive allows you to use Office files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, to provide assignment instructions to students or assignment templates for students to edit and submit.
To include instructions about the assignment as an Office file within your assignment, go to Assignments in your course.
Click + Assignment to create an assignment.
Select the Power Plug icon in the editor and select Office 365.
For the first time, Office 365 may not show up. In that case, you can choose View All and select Office 365 from the popup.
Select a file from your OneDrive file picker to embed or link the file.
Files with .xls extensions cannot be embedded.
To add a templated assignment, select External Tool as the Submission Type and select Find.
- Select Office 365 to open Microsoft OneDrive file picker.
- Select the file you want to serve as the templated assignment.
- Select Attach.
- Click or tap Select to confirm the selected file.
- Select other options for Submission Attempts and Assign, then Save or Save & Publish.
Important: After a Microsoft OneDrive cloud assignment is published, it should not be edited. If you edit it, a new document will be created and shared with students. If the students have attempted the previous assignment and you share a new assignment, the previous work of the students will be lost.
Create a Templateless Assignment
This type of assignment allows students to upload any file from their Microsoft OneDrive account to submit for the assignment. Students are only able to upload Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
- Go to your Canvas course.
- Navigate to Assignments.
- Create a new assignment by clicking + Assignment.
- Select Online for the submission type.
- Select the File Uploads box.
- Select other options for Submission Attempts and Assign, then Save or Save & Publish.
Collaborate Using Microsoft OneDrive
Collaborations allow students to work collaboratively on a given document. Students and instructors can start a collaboration. The document under collaboration remains accessible to you even if you are not added to the collaboration.
- Go to the Collaborations from the course navigation.
- Select Microsoft OneDrive from the dropdown.
- Choose your Type, Document type, and insert Description.
- Tap or click Select Existing Document.
- Select the file to collaborate on and click Select.
- Assign the collaboration to students and select Save.
This creates the collaboration for selected users, including you as the instructor.
If you are using private mode of Safari browser, you will not be able to assign a collaboration to a group of students.
If you are using Firefox browser, a dialog box will appear asking you to Resend or Cancel. You will need to Cancel to create the collaboration.
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