Audience: Franklin University instructors or course Lead Faculty.
Disclaimer: The results and functionality of the following article only apply to the audience listed above.
Setting up Microsoft Teams for Your Course
If you are interested in having a Microsoft Teams collaboration space enabled for your course, please see the following link: click here
- A faculty, adjunct, or staff login is required to view the content of the link above.
Once is granted, the steps below can be used to finish the Teams Space setup for your course.
Steps 1 - 4 below are done in your Canvas course, and step 5 in Microsoft Teams.
1. Once installed by a Canvas administrator at the request of the course Lead Faculty, the option will appear in your course's left-hand menu navigation entitled Microsoft Education (icon shown below). Formerly, this was called Microsoft Teams for Classes.
2. With this option available (as shown above) you can now turn on the Team for your course. To do so, go to Settings (left-hand menu below Microsoft Education) and then to the Integration tab in Settings.
3. Toggle the state of the Microsoft Sync to on (to the right) and press the Sync Now button.
- You may need to use the arrow to the left of Microsoft Sync to expose the Sync Now button. Please leave this integration in the activated state ('green check mark' as shown below), as turning it off could incorrectly alter future Teams access during enrollment changes.
4. Next, navigate back to Microsoft Education in the left hand menu of the course in Canvas. Here you will see a link to go to the course Teams space.
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5. You will be able to open and then Activate the Team (within Microsoft Teams rather than inside of Canvas). Activation will allow your students to see the Teams space. After pressing Activate, students' access to this Team should appear in Microsoft Teams within 90 minutes, though often much sooner.
- If you wish to setup the Teams space prior to allowing students access into the space, you can hold off pressing the Activate button until you desire granting student access.
Course enrollment changes will trigger the Teams space to add students. Therefore, if a student joins the course late, their access should update within 8 hours after their enrollment takes place.
For best practices regarding utilizing Teams in your course as an instructor, please click here.