Using the Microsoft Teams Integration in your Canvas Course

Steps to automatically create a Microsoft Teams class team and enroll students directly from your Canvas course

About the Teams/Canvas Integration

Microsoft Teams is integrated with Canvas courses. The integration includes the following features.

• Automatic creation of a Microsoft Teams class team from your Canvas course
• Automatic enrollment of team members from your Canvas “People” list
• A Microsoft Teams menu link in your Canvas course to give you and your students easy access to the class team

 

Turning On the Teams Integration in Your Course

There are a few steps you need to take to turn on Teams.

1. In your course, click Settings in the course menu.
2. In the Integration tab, toggle on Microsoft Sync. The toggle should turn green.
3. Click the arrow to the left of “Microsoft Sync” to expand the information.
4. Click the Sync Now button to synchronize your course with Microsoft Teams.

• Teams will message you when the class team has been created. If you refresh the Integrations page, you should see that your sync has completed successfully.
• Canvas will sync with Teams any time a change is made to course enrollment, but you can also trigger a manual sync by returning to the Integrations tab and following steps 3 and 4 above.

 

Accessing Your Class Team and Verifying Enrollment

You can access your class team through the Microsoft Teams app, as you normally would, or through Canvas.

1. To access your class team from Canvas, click the Microsoft Teams link in the course menu. (Your students can see this link, too.)
2. Click the Microsoft Teams tile with the name of your course.
3. Choose to either open Teams in the desktop app or “Cancel” and choose to open Teams in a web browser tab. Teams will open directly to your class team

To verify enrollment, click the three dots to the right of the team name. Choose Manage Team. On the page that opens, expand the lists for both Owners and Members and guests to view the names of everyone in the team.

 

Activating Your Class Team

Your class team is not available to students until you activate it. This feature provides time for you to set up your class team. To activate your class team so students can see it, click the Activate button at the top of the page. When prompted, confirm your choice by clicking Activate again.

 

Helpful Tips

• To make it easy for your students to return to your Canvas course, add a tab at the top of your team page, choose Website, and paste the web link from the Canvas course home page in the app when prompted.
• Schedule Teams meetings in the class team rather than using the tool in the Canvas rich content editor (text editor). Meetings scheduled through the editor will not transfer to your class team.
• If you do not wish to have the Microsoft Teams link in your course, you can remove it in the Navigation tab in course Settings.