Today we are pleased to announce general availability of the Teams Assignments integration for Canvas and Schoology Learning! The Teams Assignments integration brings the power of Microsoft Learning Accelerators and generative AI educator tools to your LMS, 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 LMS gradebook.

LMS admin resources for deployment:

Canvas Admin Deployment Guide

Schoology Learning Admin Deployment Guide

NOTE:  if you have already deployed the preview, you do not need to re-install – just keep enjoying the app!

Educator resources for readiness:

Using Microsoft Teams Assignments in Learning Management Systems

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
Build social and emotional skills in your classroom community with Reflect

Achieve More with Assignments in your LMS

The new Teams Assignments integration brings unique new capabilities into your LMS, 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 insights into student sentiment related to assignments

Teams Assignments are seamlessly integrated with LMS 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 LMS course.  Once linked, you can view and access those assignments as you would any other assignment in the LMS course. Your students can view and access their Teams assignments in the same way as their other LMS assignments. Assignment grades in Teams are automatically imported into the LMS gradebook. You can now use the best that Teams assignments and your LMS offer working together, instead of working alongside each other.

Create and link Teams Assignments in an LMS course.

Access and complete assignments in an LMS course.

Grades automatically post back to the LMS gradebook.

Support for additional LMS platforms will be added soon. You can sign up here for information on current and future LMS integration previews.

Choose the Right Tool for the Right Assignment

Many educators are already using the OneDrive LTI® tool to bring M365 documents into LMS assignments. The new Teams Assignments LTI® tool is a complementary solution that brings unique capabilities of Teams for Education to LMS users. When creating an assignment in your LMS, you should choose the tool that best meets the needs of the specific assignment. Whatever the choice of tool, the assignment can be viewed and accessed like any other assignment in the LMS, and grades will be added into the LMS gradebook.

Teams Assignments LTI®

OneDrive LTI®

What is it best used for?

Learning Accelerators, Forms Quizzes, Whiteboard, MakeCode, Flip video, and other activities exclusive to Teams Assignments.

AI-assisted assignment and rubric creation.

Multiple Word, PowerPoint, Excel documents along with other activities can be required to be submitted by the student as part of a single assignment.

Embedding or linking M365 documents in course content, discussions, announcements, or other LMS content.

Collaborative editing of documents.

Assignments to be completed in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel and submitted for grading in the LMS.

Where are assignments graded?

In Microsoft Teams, with grades and feedback automatically syncing back to the LMS gradebook.

In the LMS, using the native LMS rubrics and gradebook.

Requires Microsoft Teams for Education?

Yes

No

How to get Help or 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 the LMS.

Leverage Microsoft Education for more than Assignments in your LMS

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 LMS courses. You can learn more about these integrations with leaning management systems such as Blackboard Learn, Brightspace, Canvas, Schoology Learning and Moodle in our previous overview, and our support page.

Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (www.1edtech.org)

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