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Microsoft Education

UAB faculty, staff and students have access to Microsoft Education to download Microsoft products such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Teams and OneNote. These applications are also available for use as web applications in the cloud, where each user has 5TB of storage in a OneDrive account. More information can be found on UAB’s IT Microsoft website

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Microsoft Education in Canvas

Canvas supports integration with Microsoft Education in Course Navigation, Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. This integration replaces the old Office 365, Teams Classes and Teams Meetings Canvas integrations. Microsoft Education allows students and instructors to use, create, share, collaborate, and meet in real time using Microsoft 365 files within Canvas. Users can also view OneDrive files directly in Canvas.

 

Features

  • Choose if the OneDrive, Teams, Teams Meetings, and/or OneNote Class Notebook are available through Microsoft Education on a course-by-course basis. These features are enabled by default unless the course instructor disables them.
  • Create & access Microsoft Teams based on the course roster
  • Create & access Microsoft Teams meetings inside Canvas
  • Access OneDrive files from inside a Canvas course
  • • Assign a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file as a cloud assignment
  • Allow students to collaborate on documents within Canvas groups
  • Students can select files from their OneDrive to submit to online assignments
  • Embed OneDrive files anywhere the rich content editor is available
  • Add OneDrive files to Modules that are updated automatically
  • Grade Microsoft Education submissions via Canvas SpeedGrader
  • Create, Share and Edit a OneNote class notebook for the course
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How to Access Microsoft Education

Sign In to Microsoft Education

Instructors

Faculty and staff have a Microsoft Education account automatically created by UAB IT. Course instructors should enable the features they would like to use in their Canvas course from the Microsoft Education course navigation link. When choosing to use any Microsoft Education app, add the Microsoft Education link to your  Course Navigation menu. 

The first time Microsoft Education is accessed by an instructor in a Canvas course, you will be asked to choose if OneDrive, Class Notebook, Teams or Meetings are available in the course. Please view our step-by-step guide for more information.

Students

Licenses for students using Microsoft Education will be automatically granted while you are enrolled at UAB.

To get started, visit mail.uab.edu and sign in with your BlazerID and password to claim your Microsoft Account. Click the matrix in upper left hand corner to view available apps begin using the web applications.

 

For more information, including how to install the desktop versions of Microsoft Education apps, please visit UAB’s IT Microsoft website.

FAQ

 

Technical Support

 

Please follow the steps below if you need technical support after reviewing the information, guides, and FAQs above.

    1. Check Status Page

      Status Page- Check to see if there any know issues before submitting a ticket.

    2. Contact UAB IT Microsoft Support

    3. Ask Learning Technologies

      If these support options do not give a satisfactory resolution, please submit a Learning Technologies Support request and include any ticket numbers provided by Microsoft

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