How do I create a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration as an instructor?
You can use Microsoft Office 365 to create a collaboration with a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file. You can select individual users, groups, or both as part of a collaboration. To alert invitees about collaborations, you can create course events in the Calendar.
Notes:
- If you cannot create a Microsoft collaboration, this feature has not been enabled for the course.
- Once you invite a user to a collaboration, the collaboration is available to the user in the user's Microsoft OneDrive. Uninviting the user or deleting the collaboration does not remove access to the collaboration once a user has been added.
- When creating a collaboration you cannot link to a previously created collaboration.
Open Collaborations
In Course Navigation, click the Collaborations link.
Add Collaboration
Click the Add Collaboration button.
Select Type
In the Type drop-down menu, select the type of collaboration you want to create.
Add Details
In the Document Name field [1], enter the name of your document.
In the Description field [2], enter a description for the collaboration.
Add People
The collaboration defaults to the People tab. If you want to collaborate with individual people in your course, click the name of a user you want to add to the collaboration [1]. The user's name will move to the right side of the window [2].
Add as many users as necessary.
Remove Collaborators
To remove a collaborator, click the Remove icon [1]. To remove all users, click the Remove All link [2].
Add Groups
You can also create collaborations with groups. To select an entire group, click the Groups tab [1]. Select the group(s) you want to add to the collaboration [2].
Note:
- You can select individual users as well as a group in a collaboration.
- You can add multiple groups to a collaboration, but all groups will collaborate in the same document. For group-specific collaborations, consider creating a new collaboration for each group or creating a group collaboration from within the group.
Save Collaboration
Click the Save button.
View Collaboration
View your collaboration. To edit the collaboration, click the Edit icon [1]. To delete the collaboration, click the Delete icon [2].
