OneDrive (Microsoft)
What is it?
UAB faculty, staff, and students have access to OneDrive to store and use files with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in the cloud, desktop, mobile or Canvas as part of UAB’s Microsoft Education subscription. Each user has 5TB of storage in a OneDrive account. More information can be found on UAB IT's Office website opens a new website.
In Canvas
Canvas supports an integration with OneDrive through Microsoft Education in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. Files can be accessed through Microsoft Education links in Canvas selectingOneDrive where cloud files are displayed. This integration allows students and instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate in real time using Office 365 files within Canvas. Users can also view their OneDrive files directly on Canvas.
Features
- Access OneDrive files from inside Canvas course
- Assign an Microsoft 365 (word, ppt, 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 OneDrive submissions via Canvas SpeedGrader
How to Access
Both faculty and students are able to access OneDrive in several places across the Canvas platform.
Explore the different ways Office 365 can be accessed in Canvas
Note: It is important for users to log into Microsoft Education with full UAB email address (@uab.edu) and not just their BlazerID.
FAQ
Any assignment that allows submission via File Uploads automatically allows students to submit files from their OneDrive account.
Office 365 files display in SpeedGrader with the Office 365 Viewer. This allows you to grade Office 365 submission in SpeedGrader.
No, the Canvas integration with OneDrive only allows you to submit or link to the contents of your OneDrive from within your course. To upload files to your OneDrive, go to office.com opens a new website and sign-in with your UAB email address (@uab.edu) and Strong Password.
Yes, some of the standard Canvas options such as group assignment, peer-review, plagiarism detection, and manual file submissions are not available when using cloud assignments.