by Aaron Isom, Instructional Designer III

Microsoft Office 365 now has the ability to automatically create individual student templates from one master template Word, Excel, PowerPoint document. This may sound familiar if you have used or heard of Google Cloud assignments, MS Cloud assignments are now the default tool for UVU. This short tutorial will help you set up MS Cloud assignments in Canvas.  

“Cloud assignments are templated assignments. All students get their own copy of the assignment and can edit their own copy. When students submit the assignment, their own copy gets submitted and is available to the educator in the speed grader for assessment.   

Microsoft OneDrive allows you to use Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to provide assignment instructions to students or assignment templates for students to edit and submit. ” 

 

Use Microsoft OneDrive with your LMS   

What kind of assessments are ideal for MS Word Cloud assignments? Just to name a few, guided question self-reflections, structured assignments, case studies, virtual labs, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc.