St. John's University Service Desk

Updated March 13, 2025

The Microsoft Teams meetings LTI makes it easy to schedule and host a meeting with your students from directly inside of your Canvas course.

How do I add this LTI to my Course Navigation Menu?

Before you begin, please make sure you have enabled Microsoft Sync. If you are unfamiliar with this process, please see our help article How do I enable Microsoft Teams Sync in my Canvas course?(linked).

1. Open your course in Canvas.

2. Go to Settings and select the Navigation tab.

3. Drag and drop the “Microsoft Teams meetings” item from the bottom section to the top “enabled” section and select Save when done.

4. Microsoft Teams meetings should now appear in your course navigation menu. If you select Microsoft Teams meetings from your course navigation menu, you may be prompted to sign in; please sign in with your St. John’s University credentials.

How do I get Support for this LTI if I’m having trouble with it?

Instructor Support

• How do I create a meeting using the Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI in Canvas? (linked)

• How do I view the attendance for a Teams meeting I created in Canvas? (linked)

• How do I access a recording in Teams and embed the content in Canvas? (linked)

• Microsoft Teams Meetings in Canvas: Usage - This article links to a Canvas blog post regarding using the Microsoft Teams meetings LTI inside of Canvas.

• Use Microsoft Teams meetings in your LMS - links to a Microsoft Support article for setting up the LTI in your Canvas course.

• Meetings and calls in Microsoft Teams - links to a Microsoft Support article with information that should help you get more familiar with how meetings function inside of Microsoft Teams.

• Microsoft Educator Center - links to the Microsoft Learn hub for educator training

• For any further questions or issues with this LTI, please contact St. John’s University IT by either opening a Microsoft Applications Training Request (linked) or call 718-990-5000

  • Canvas Support is unable to assist with this LTI, so all requests for assistance with Microsoft Teams meetings LTI should be directed to St. John’s IT

Student Support

• How do I join a Microsoft Teams meeting from my Canvas course? (linked)

• For any further questions or issues with this LTI, please contact St. John’s University IT by either opening a Microsoft Applications Training Request (linked) or call 718-990-5000

  • Canvas Support is unable to assist with this LTI, so all requests for assistance with Microsoft Teams meetings LTI should be directed to St. John’s IT