We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Teams Assignments integration for Canvas LMS! The Teams Assignments integration brings the power of Microsoft Learning Accelerators and generative AI educator tools to your Canvas courses, along with other engaging activities such as Flip videos, Auto-graded Forms, MakeCode projects, Whiteboards, and Reflect check-ins. Grades and feedback are automatically returned to the Canvas gradebook.
Canvas LMS admin resources for deployment:
- Canvas Admin Deployment Guide
- NOTE: if you have already deployed the preview, you do not need to re-install; just keep enjoying the app!
- Deployment Guides for All Canvas Integrations
Educator resources for readiness:
- Using Microsoft Teams Assignments in Learning Management Systems
- Connect Educators and Learners with Canvas and Microsoft 365
- Readiness for Microsoft Learning Accelerators:
- Support reading fluency practice with Reading Progress
- Develop confident presenters with Speaker Progress
- Develop search strategies with Search Coach and Search Progress
- Support building mathematics skills with Math Progress (Join the Preview!)
- Build social and emotional skills in your classroom community with Reflect
Achieve More with Assignments in Canvas
The new Teams Assignments integration brings unique new capabilities into Canvas, saving educators time, and providing powerful tools to accelerate learning. For example, with Teams assignments you can:
- Leverage AI during assignment creation to rapidly draft assignment descriptions and rubrics
- Accelerate student learning and educator insights with Reading, Math, Search, and Speaker Progress assignments
- Deliver auto-graded quizzes with Microsoft Forms
- Access unique assignment types such as Microsoft Whiteboard, MakeCode, and Flip video
- Use Reflect exit check-ins to gain insight into student sentiment related to assignments
Teams Assignments are seamlessly integrated with your Canvas assignments via the Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) v1.3 Advantage standard. As an educator, you can create new Teams assignments or link existing Teams assignments in your course. Once linked, you can view and access those assignments as you would any other assignment in the course. Your students can view and access their Teams assignments in the same way as their other assignments. Grades and feedback in Teams are automatically imported into the Canvas course gradebook. You can now use the best of Teams assignments and Canvas together.
Create and link Teams Assignments in the Canvas course.
Students access and complete assignments in the Canvas course.
Grades and feedback automatically post back to the Canvas gradebook.
How to get Help and give Feedback
For any issues deploying the integration, our Education Support team is here to help: Please contact https://aka.ms/EduSupport
Once deployed, the Teams Assignments integration has links to Contact Support and Send Feedback from right within the app. These can be found in the user voice menu in the upper right on any view that appears within Canvas.
Leverage Microsoft Education integrations for more than Assignments
The new Teams assignments integration is the latest advancement in our continued efforts to bring the full value of Microsoft Education to users of learning management systems. You can already use the capabilities of Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebooks, Microsoft Reflect directly within Canvas courses. You can learn more about all of our Canvas integrations in our previous overview, and in our integration deployment guides.
Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (www.1edtech.org)
