Microsoft Teams and Canvas

Microsoft Teams has now been integrated with Canvas courses.

The integration includes the following features.

Creation of a Microsoft Teams class team from your Canvas course
Automatic enrolment of team owners and members from your Canvas “People” list
Microsoft Teams menu links in your Canvas course to give you and your student’s easy access to the class team and to Teams meetings

Two new menu links have been created in the Canvas class

1. Microsoft Teams Classes link

With this new link, teachers and students will be able to more easily navigate seamlessly between Teams and their course in Canvas. Initial capabilities include:

Allow an teacher to create a Class Team with the proper user roles within a Canvas course based on the enrolment roster of the course in Canvas
Respect Teams admin & Canvas privacy policies during Class Team creation
After creating the Class Team, teachers and students can access the Team from within the Canvas course or Teams
Support across desktop, mobile and web platforms

2. Microsoft Teams Meetings link

The Teams Meetings link will help teachers and students more easily integrate class meetings into their course work. This includes:

Schedule individual or recurring meetings within the course in Canvas and set meeting options (based on tenant policies)
View past & upcoming meetings within the Canvas course calendar
Join or edit the details of a Teams meeting from the Canvas course (deep link into Teams)

Access previous meeting artefacts within the Canvas course, including chat, recordings, transcripts, and attendance reports

To enable Teams in Canvas please follow these instructions.

In Canvas Editor

Best place to place the Teams link would be in the text of a Page, which is then linked to a Module.

Go to Modules and add a new Page and give it a title.
Open the Page and click Edit to bring up the rich content editor box. Click the 3 dots button in the tool bar and look for the plug icon near the end. This allows you to embed a number of third party apps into a Page.

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You should then find Teams as an option to select in the window that pops up.

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You may be prompted to sign in to Teams, click Sign In and your Canvas details will log you in automatically.
You can set a title for the meeting and the star/end date and time.

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The meeting will be created, click Copy
The link to the meeting is now available in the rich content editor. Click Save to make available to all users on your course.

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More details on the integration can be found in this ITS Knowledge Base article.