Description
Microsoft has announced that they will be ending their current integrations for Teams Classes and Teams Meetings for all learning management systems worldwide on June 15, 2025. This includes the integrations that Ohio University currently has within Blackboard and Canvas.
Environment
- Blackboard Original courses
- Blackboard Ultra courses
- Canvas courses using Microsoft Teams Classes or Microsoft Teams Meetings integrations
Solution
Additional Context
Microsoft is currently in the process of building a new single integration that will allow instructors to use Teams Classes, Teams Meetings, Teams Assignments, OneDrive, OneNote and Reflect within LMS courses. They are not certain that the development of this new integration will be completed by June 15. Regardless of the status of the new integration, the existing integrations for Teams Classes and Teams Meetings will be disabled on June 15, 2025. Existing Teams Classes and Teams Meetings that are created before the integrations retire on June 15 will not be deleted, but there will no longer be a link within your LMS courses that will take you to that content.
Note: The OneDrive and Teams Assignment integrations (coming May 8, 2025) will not be impacted by this June 15 deadline.
What’s the Plan?
As soon as development is finished on the new integration, OIT will begin the testing an implementation process to have the new integration installed within Blackboard and Canvas.
- If the new integration is not ready before the June 15, 2025
- First summer and full summer courses will be able to continue using the Teams Classes and Teams Meetings that were generated by the integrations AND you will need to create manual links to share these items within your Canvas courses.
- If the new integration is not ready before the start of second summer
- Instructors of those courses will be provided with alternative instructions for creating Teams Classes and getting your students added to those Teams Classes.
Note: If any summer instructors need to create new Teams Meetings while we are without the integration, you can do so within your Teams Classes channels or via direct invitation to the individual students.
As more information becomes available from Microsoft, we will update this article to reflect those changes.
Accessing and Sharing Teams links
Finding your Teams Classes Link
- Within Teams navigate to your Teams class
- Hover over the Teams class name so that the … (3-dot) menu appears
- Select the ... (3 dot) menu
- Select Get link to team
- Select Copy
Sharing your Teams Classes Link
- In Blackboard Original courses
- Navigate to your course
- In the upper right cornet, ensure that Edit Mode is On
- In the left menu, select the plus sign at the top of the menu (above the course name)
- Select Web Link
- Under Name, enter a title for your link
- Under URL, paste the URL you copied for your Teams class
- Select Available to Users
- Select Submit
- In Blackboard Ultra courses
- You can share your course link via an Announcement or a Content Item, such as a Document.
- In Canvas courses
- You can share your course link via Announcement or a content item, such as a Page.
Finding your Teams Meeting Link
- From Outlook
- Within Outlook navigate to the meeting
- Select the meeting to open it
- Scroll down to the Join the meeting now link
- Right click on this link and select Copy Hyperlink or Copy Link
- From Teams Calendar
- Within Teams select Calendar
- Navigate to the meeting
- Select the meeting to open in
- At the top left of the meeting screen, select Copy link
- From Teams channel
- Within Teams navigate to the channel that contains the meeting
- Within that channel navigate to the meeting invitation
- Use the … (3 dot) menu to select View Meeting Details
- At the top left of the meeting screen there will be an option that says Copy link, select that
Adding your Teams Meeting Link to your Course Calendar
- Blackboard Original Courses
- Within Blackboard navigate to your course
- In the upper right cornet, ensure that Edit Mode is On
- Under the Control Panel, select Course Tools to expand it
- Under Course Tools, select Course Calendar
- In the upper right corner of the calendar, select the +
- Under Create Event (you can expand this box)
- Enter a new name for New Event Name
- Next to Calendar, ensure that the correct course is selected
- Select a Starts and Ends and time for your event
- Under Event Description, paste the meeting link
- Select Save
- In Blackboard Ultra Courses
- Within Blackboard navigate to your course
- In the top menu select Calendar
- In the upper right corner, select the +
- Select Add Event
- In the New Event Details box:
- Enter a new name for New Event x/xx/xx
- Under Details & Information enter the event's start and end date and time
- Under Location, paste the meeting link
- Select Save
- In Canvas Courses
- Within Canvas navigate to your course
- In the course menu, select Settings
- On the right side of the Settings page, under Course Status, select Course Calendar
- In the upper right side of the calendar, select the +
- In the Edit Event menu
- Under Title, enter a new title for the event
- In From and To, select the start and end date and time
- Under Location, paste the meeting link
- Select Submit