Microsoft Education Collaboration

Microsoft Education Collaboration tools enable real-time, simultaneous editing and sharing of documents between faculty and students. The full capabilities of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, are now available within the LMS experience for collaborative documents. Students and faculty can work together on the same document in real-time, whether creating new content or editing existing OneDrive documents. These tools serve as versatile replacements for traditional collaborative platforms, supporting use cases such as collaborative wikis for course knowledge bases, shared sign-up sheets for presentations or office hours, group project development, peer review workflows, real-time brainstorming sessions, collaborative note-taking during lectures, shared research data collection and analysis, co-authored lab reports, joint presentation creation, meeting minutes for student organizations, collaborative study guide development, and portfolio building with instructor feedback and guidance.

How to Deploy Microsoft Education Collaboration Documents in Blackboard

First Method:

In your Blackboard Course, click the + button > Create > Microsoft Cloud Collaboration.
Select either Select Existing Document or click the dropdown to choose a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document.
Give the document a name and description (optional).
Click Create.

Second Method:

In your Blackboard Course, click the + button > Content Market > Microsoft Education Collaboration.
Select either Select Existing Document or click the dropdown to choose a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document.
Give the document a name and description (optional).
Click Create.

NOTE: This will create documents that are editable for the entire class. If you want to create documents only editable by a group, follow the directions below:

Group Collaborative Documents

NOTE: You must create groups before assigning documents to groups.

Create a folder or module labeled "Group Work"
In your folder, create a collaborative document following the procedures above.
Locate the document and click the dropdown that says "Hidden from Students" and change it to "Release Conditions"
In the Release Conditions window, select "Specific Members or Groups" and then from the groups list, choose your group you want to assign it to.
Click Save.
Repeat steps 3-5 for each group you want to create a collaborative document. E.g. if you have 5 groups, you must have 5 collaborative documents, each assigned to a different group.

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