{"id":23421,"date":"2016-07-21T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:15:09","slug":"canvas-education-platform-now-integrates-microsoft-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/07\/21\/canvas-education-platform-now-integrates-microsoft-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas\u2019 education platform now integrates with Microsoft Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canvas by Instructure, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company, has announced an integration with Microsoft Office 365 to provide instructors and learners around the world with an improved educational experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTeachers need these new capabilities for their education platforms, and we have continuously focused on providing the best technology we could design and build,\u201d said Mitch Benson, vice president of Canvas Product. \u201cWhat happened next was that two of edtech\u2019s most established forces connected and worked together to meet the expressed needs of these educators. We\u2019re extremely proud of the new result and can\u2019t wait to roll it out to our robust, global list of educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the needs of educators, representatives from the Canvas Platform Team collaborated with Microsoft to help develop improvements to the Canvas base platform that facilitate the best integration experience possible for their millions of users.\u00a0 The Canvas Platform Team believes this integration will be both a model and a catalyst for change to propel greater innovation to rusty technology in edtech.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur schools rely heavily on Canvas and Microsoft for our daily educational functions, and these platforms have grown essential to the learning process of both our K\u201312 educators and students,\u201d said Beverly Miller of Greeneville City Schools, a technologically innovative public school district in Greeneville, Tennessee. \u201cThe integration of two of our most prominently used technologies will only help further streamline and enhance learning development within each classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canvas has millions of active users and is employed by hundreds of universities and colleges in 40 countries. Canvas\u2019 K\u201312 platform also is operated in 49 of the 50 states, helping young students learn with greater ease. Canvas combines innovative education tools, a platform for hosting those tools and institutions using the platform to transform learning and teaching in the classroom. This integration with Microsoft follows other critical Canvas innovations, including a transformation of their user interface.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur relationship with Canvas helps us bring the best tools for learning into the classroom. We know teachers and students are strapped for time and we want to help them focus on what\u2019s really important: teaching and learning,\u201d said Eran Megiddo, corporate vice president of engineering, Education at Microsoft. \u201cBy integrating Office 365 with Canvas, teachers and students can now collaborate online with Office 365 including OneNote Class Notebooks, Word, Excel and PowerPoint directly within their Canvas LMS, saving valuable time so the teachers can remain focused on their students and students can leverage the best tools available and focus on learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canvas and Microsoft integration provides seven main points of interoperability that make using Office 365 and Canvas seamless. Those points are:<\/p>\n

\u25cf\u00a0 Submit files directly from Office 365 into Canvas Assignments.<\/p>\n

\u25cf\u00a0 Access Office 365 documents through SpeedGrader to add feedback.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Link Office 365 documents anywhere you use the Rich Content Editor.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Include Office 365 documents in your Modules.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Create Collaborations using any type of Office document.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Create and grade assignments in your Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook, then push those grades to Canvas.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Sign in to Canvas with your Office 365 login using single sign-on.<\/p>\n

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Canvas by Instructure, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company, has announced an integration with Microsoft Office 365 to provide instructors and learners around the world with an improved educational experience. \u201cTeachers need these new capabilities for their education platforms, and we have continuously focused on providing the best technology we could design and build,\u201d said Mitch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4607,148,339,2133],"class_list":["post-23421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-canvas","tag-cloud-computing","tag-education","tag-microsoft-office-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}