Canvas: Microsoft Education LTI

In Fall 2025, Microsoft is replacing two existing LTIs (Teams Classes and Teams Meetings) with an all inclusive LTI Called Microsoft Education.

Summary

This article has information about the Microsoft Education integration (LTI) which replaced the old Teams Classes and Teams Meetings integrations in Fall 2025. The article has instructions for faculty to configure Microsoft Education in their courses and how to manage the integration after initial setup.

• Understanding Microsoft Education 
• Configuring Microsoft Education in your Course(s)
  • First Time Setup - Select which applications can be used in Microsoft Education 
  • Change which Microsoft apps are allowed to be used

 

Understanding Microsoft Education LTI 

The Microsoft Education LTI brings together popular education tools — OneDrive, Teams, and Teams Meetings — into a single integration.

 

Teams Functionality Outline 

The Teams app helps you and your students navigate between Canvas and Teams. 

You can access the course team right through the Microsoft Education dashboard for the course.

Important Considerations

• You must sync enrollments before you use this tool. 
• Before students can access the class team, you must activate the team.
• If you are going to Merge Courses, wait to set up the Team and Sync until after the courses are merged.

 

Team Meetings Functionality Outline

The Meetings app incorporates Teams Meetings into Canvas. Faculty and students can view upcoming and past meetings, find and play meeting recordings, schedule individual or recurring meetings, and easily join meetings related to the course, all from within Canvas.

 

OneDrive Functionality Outline

The Microsoft 365 LTI tool expands beyond the capabilities of the existing OneDrive LTI tool with capabilities for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel  - and is available within your LMS experience by embedding or linking documents, videos, PDFs, and images into course materials like assignments, discussions, modules, announcements and more.  

 

Class Notebook Functionality Outline 

The OneNote Class Notebook is an app that helps you set up OneNote in your class. This app will create a class notebook, which includes three types of sub-notebooks:

• Student Notebooks—private notebooks that are shared between each educator and their individual students. Educators can access these notebooks at any time, but students cannot see other students' notebooks.
• Content Library—a notebook for educators to share course materials with students. Educators can add and edit its materials, but for students, the notebook is read-only.
• Collaboration Space—a notebook for the students and educator of the class to share, organize, and collaborate in.

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How- To

Configuring Microsoft Education in your Course(s)

In order to use the Microsoft Education LTI from a faculty perspective, please use the following steps. 

Important: You must set up the Microsoft Education integration using these steps in each course where you want to use it.

 

Before you Begin

Verify that you can see the Microsoft Education integration in the left hand navigation in your course. 

• If you see the Microsoft Education tab in your course navigation, you can proceed with the tasks below.
• If you do not see the Microsoft Education tab in your course navigation, then Microsoft Sync is off or you haven't used Microsoft Sync before.
  • Please follow the instructions in Canvas: Turning on Microsoft Sync to enable the Microsoft Education integration, then proceed with the tasks below.

 

Task: First Time Setup - Select which applications can be used in Microsoft Education

Instructions

Step 1 - Click on the Microsoft Education tab in the left hand navigation in your course. 

Step 2 - You will see a preview screen. Make sure to click Continue Setup. 

 

Step 3 - On the next screen you select the tools you would like to use within your course.  Select each integration you want to use by setting the slider to Enabled (sliding to the right).

• OneDrive is enabled by default and cannot be disabled.
• Class Notebook is enabled. You will need to take additional steps to configure the Class Notebook for each course if you leave this option on. For more details, see the OneNote section in the Microsoft Apps (Integrations) in Canvas FAQ 
• Microsoft Teams (i.e. Teams) is an option but disabled by default. Only choose this if you need the full functions of a Microsoft Team. For more details, see Microsoft Education LTI: Teams Integration within Canvas
• Microsoft Teams Meetings (i.e. Meetings) is enabled. You will need to schedule and configure specific Meetings for your course. For more details, see Microsoft Education LTI: Teams Meetings Integration with Canvas

 

Step 4 -  Click Done to save your choices.

Once configured, the Microsoft Education menu will look similar to this:

 

Step 5 (optional) - Click the waffle icon (app launcher) in the upper left to access any of the enabled Microsoft tools. 

 

Outcome

You know how to select which Microsoft applications can be used in your course using the Microsoft Education integration.

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Task: Change which Microsoft apps are allowed to be used

If you need to revisit this, or in case for any reason you don't see a selection option, you can adjust which Microsoft apps are available in your course.

Instructions

Step 1 - In the Microsoft Education tab in your course, go to your profile icon in the upper right and then click on course settings. 

This menu allows you to turn on and off any items you would like or not like available within your course. 

 

Step 2 - Adjust the sliders to control which apps are available to use in your course.

• Slide to the on position if you would like a tool enabled and available for use within your course.
• Slide to the off position to disable. 

 

 

Step 3 - Changes are saved automatically. Click the back-arrow next to the Course settings header to return to the Microsoft Education home page.

 

Outcome

You know how to change which apps are available in Microsoft Education.

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Further Readings

Canvas: Turning on Microsoft Sync

Microsoft Apps (Integrations) in Canvas FAQ

Microsoft Education LTI: Teams Integration within Canvas

Microsoft Education LTI: Teams Meetings Integration with Canvas

 

Need additional help?

Submit a Canvas (myCourses) support request or visit the Technology Help Desk Support page to locate your local campus contact information or to submit an online technology support request.  For password issues you must call or visit the Help Desk in person.