[ARCHIVED] Office 365 File Submission Error

[talway]

I have an instructor who has set up an assignment with a file upload and has set the file restrictions to doc and docx (doc,docx).  The students are required to create a Word document and save it to OneDrive and then submit the assignment by clicking on the More tab, chose Office 365, select the file and the upload it.  Students can get to OneDrive to select the file but when they attach the file for submission they receive the following error message:  "The launched tool returned an invalid resource for this assignment."  When the file restriction is removed, the assignment can be successfully submitted without error.  If the file is placed on local computer and submitted using the file upload, with the file restrictions in place, the file can be successfully submitted.  This seems rather odd that the file restriction is preventing the authorized document format.  Is this bug or are we missing something?

[pmartinez · Accepted solution]

Hello Tom and welcome to the community. and welcome to the community. Sorry your having these difficulties with Microsoft Office 365. May I suggest reading through: How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file? Let me know if this solves things for you.

[talway]

Hi Priscilla.  Thank you for the response.  While the link that you provided does address creating an assignment using Office 365, it does not address the issue that students are unable to submit a paper directly from Office 365 without the assignment being set up that way.  I did find out from Canvas support that this has to do with how Office 365 saves files in the cloud.  Apparently the files that are saved in the cloud are in a raw format using some other type of extension.  It is only when the file is downloaded does it then become a *.docx, or *.xlsx type of file.  Therefore if students want to submit a file that is stored in the cloud and created in Office 365, and the instructor has placed a file restriction on the attachment, they must first download the file to there local device.  This makes me then wonder why the feature is even available.