Teams in Canvas - Instructor Information

Canvas Teams Integration

The Teams integration in Canvas is much more robust than it was in Blackboard. 

The Canvas and Teams integration has three components:

  1. Sync, which creates the class team based on your Canvas course information with the instructor as the owner and students as members.  When an enrollment change is detected in Canvas, a synchronization job is automatically scheduled to send the changes to the class team.  You usually only need to use this tool once per course in Canvas.
  2. Microsoft Teams classes link in your course menu.  This link is a shortcut to a Teams interface displaying a Teams card linking to your Class Team.
  3. [optional] Microsoft Teams meetings link in your course menu.

Sync the Canvas Course to a Team

Teams classes setup click-through demo Links to an external site.

*Important! Please do not create a Class Team in a practice or development course. Wait until you have access to your "real" courses to complete this process!

Instructors must first synchronize the Canvas course to a team to use Teams.  If you will not be using Teams in your course, then you do not need to do this. Here are the steps to setup your class team:

  1. Open the Canvas course as an instructor
  2. Select the Settings link in your course navigation
  3. Select the Integrations tab of the Settings screen (you may need to scroll up)
  4. Toggle the State slider to change it from an x to a checkmark.  When the setting is changed to a green checkmark, the setting is saved.
  5. Click the Sync Now button to create the class team and send the enrollments from your course into the team.

A status message will display indicating that a sync is currently running.  Once the class team is created, Teams will notify you if you have it open.

Use your Class Team from Canvas

  1. Access the Canvas course
  2. Select the Microsoft Teams classes link from your course menu
  3. Select the course card to open your class team.
  4. Activate the team when you are ready for students to access your class team.

Select Microsoft Teams classes from the course navigation

Activate button in new class team

Scheduling a Teams Meeting from Canvas

  1. Access the course in Canvas
  2. Select the Microsoft Teams meetings link from the course navigation
    1. If the Microsoft Teams meetings link is not available in your course navigation, update your course navigation.
    2. See Canvas documentation Links to an external site. for help modifying your course navigation.
  3. Click the + New meeting button
  4. In the New meeting interface, give the meeting a title
  5. Select the Add entire class link to add everyone from the class in your meeting if this will not be a channel meeting
    1. If you are setting up the meeting before your students are populated into the course, you can add them later
  6. If this will be a channel meeting:
    1. Click in the Add channel box
    2. A list of all teams to which you belong will be listed; the team for this course will be at the top.
    3. Select the Class Team name to expand the team and select the desired channel
  7. Choose the date and time of your meeting
  8. If the meeting recurs, choose the Does not repeat dropdown and select an appropriate schedule.
  9. Add information to the description
  10. Click Save

Your meeting will now appear in the scheduled meetings list.

Class team meeting list in Canvas course

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/lti/teams-classes-with-canvas?view=o365-worldwide Links to an external site.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/lti/teams-meetings-with-canvas?view=o365-worldwide Links to an external site.

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Partner-Listings/Partner-Listing-Microsoft-Education/tac-p/511595 Links to an external site.