Video: What are Collaborations?

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00:07: What are collaborations?

00:10: You can use collaborations to. Copy and paste notes that

00:14: everyone can access share bullet point lists, or agendas for upcoming

00:18: synchronous class or group time or meetings create a text-based

00:22: whiteboard that everyone in the classroom can see and refer to later assigned

00:27: student groups, a collaborative assignment as a graded.

00:29: Assignment instructor feature

00:33: All canvas courses support Google Docs as the default.

00:36: Collaborations tool collaborations that leverage Google Docs

00:40: require that all participating students have created and linked their Google account

00:44: to their personal settings. Google Docs allows you to add up to

00:48: 50 users per collaboration and all users can view and edit a

00:52: document at the same time. However, Google collaborations

00:56: has a limit as to the number of users who can access a collaboration at any time.

01:01: Collaborations also supports the Google assignments LTI 1.3,

01:06: which is enabled in a course, as an external app.

01:09: Google collaborations. Not only allow users to create Google Docs, but

01:13: they can also create other Google workspace files.

01:17: In order to use collaborations canvas admins, need to enable the Google

01:21: assignments LTI 1.3 integration and configure it with the

01:25: necessary credentials.

01:28: You can also create collaborations through the Google apps LTI, which

01:32: is enabled in a course as an external app.

01:35: Google Drive. Collaborations allow you to collaborate on Google, spreadsheets

01:39: and Google presentations. The Google apps integration requires

01:43: enabling the external collaborations tool account feature option.

01:48: However, enabling this feature changes, the collaborations interface

01:52: and removes any existing Google Docs collaborations.

01:57: When the Microsoft Office 365, LTI is enabled in

02:01: a course, as an external app. You can collaborate using a Microsoft Word, Excel,

02:05: or PowerPoint file.