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Create a OneDrive Assignment

Create a OneDrive Assignment

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ID&D KB How-to Guide

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You can create a template document in OneDrive to assign to students so that they can create unique submissions for an assignment. A OneDrive assignment will duplicate the document, slide deck, or spreadsheet you assign for each student to edit/update for assignment completion.

Please Note

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To Create a OneDrive Assignment:

You must first have the OneDrive LTI tool enabled in your course.

  1. Click on Assignments from your course menu:


    Assignments link is highlighted on the course navigation menu




  2. Click Add Assignment and enter assignment details (e.g. Title, Description, point value, due date):


    The Add Assignment button is highlighted from the Assignments overview page




  3. For Submission Type select External Tool:





  4. Choose Office 365 Cloud Assignment from the external tool list:





  5. A OneDrive folder will open where you can check the box next to the file you want students to use for their assignment. Then click Attach File:





  6. An Office 365 URL will auto-fill the URL field. Check the box next to Load in a New Tab and click Select:





  7. Click Save or Save and Publish retain your assignment settings:

 

Teams SharePoint Expiration Notice:

OneDrive works based on the creation of a SharePoint site when you enable the OneDrive LTI. This SharePoint site expires after 1 year. At that time, you will receive an email warning you that the SharePoint team for that course is about to expire. You will need to click the “Renew Group” button if you intend to continue using OneDrive actively within that course. This should not affect semester-based courses, but may impact Development courses or SUCCEED courses used beyond a 1-year timeframe.

If you do not renew your SharePoint Teams site, you will receive an error message when you go to create a new OneDrive assignment. You will first see an error message warning that “We couldn’t assign the necessary permissions to your account” because there is no SharePoint site to save the collaboration file to.

If you continue to attempt creating a OneDrive Assignment, you will receive a “Failed to upload file” error message.

If you receive this message and your course SharePoint Teams site expired within 30 days, you can submit a request to IT to recover the site. If it expired more than 30 days ago, then the OneDrive integration will no longer work in that course (Collaborations, Assignments, embedding files) and it cannot be recreated at this time. You will need to create a new course in order to use the OneDrive LTI again where it can create a new SharePoint site.

 

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