Instructor's can create an online assignment that embeds a document directly from their Tufts Office 365 (OneDrive) folder. Accepted assignment types are Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

When students open the assignment, Office 365 will create a copy of the file as the student's submission. Students can open the document and make changes per the assignment instructions. When they are ready to submit the assignment, they can return to the Canvas assignment page and submit the assignment.

The copied document is also added to the student's OneDrive folder for the course. Instructors can also view each student's document copy in SpeedGrader for grading.

Office 365 limitations when creating assignments:

• All users must have a Tufts University Office 365 account
• Instructors cannot use Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Assignments  for group assignments.
• If instructors want to use a Canvas rubric for the assignment, they must add the rubric before setting the External Tool submission type. Create the assignment with any other submission type, save the assignment, add the rubric, and then edit the assignment to select the External Tool.
• Students will continue to have editing access to their Office 365 copy until the "Until" date/time has passed.

See Also:  "Student - How do I edit and submit an Office 365 Could Assignment?"