If an instructor or student experiences any of the following issues in Canvas, it means the connection between their Office 365 and Canvas accounts needs to be reset:
- Open a new browser window.
- Log back into Canvas.
- Open one of your Canvas courses.
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To re-establish the Canvas/Office 365 connection, click any of the following in a Canvas class:
- In the course’s left-hand navigation, click Office 365 or Collaborations. (These links may not be visible to students.)
- Students – Pretend you are submitting an Office 365 file to an Assignment by clicking an Assignment and then the Office 365 tab. (This is enough to trigger the reconnection; you do not actually have to submit anything.)
- Sign in with your UWM login and password if prompted.
If your OneDrive files appear, your Canvas/Office 365 connection has been successfully repaired.

If you completed all the above procedures, and it did not resolve the Canvas/Office 365 issue, clear your browser cache and cookies.
Do the following if Office 365 integration works for files and Assignments in your Canvas class, but Collaborations is still not working:
- Open a new browser window.
- Log in to your UWM Office 365 account.
- Select OneDrive.
- Look for the Canvas folder in your OneDrive.
- When you use Collaborations, Canvas automatically creates a Canvas folder in your OneDrive Files area.
- Inside that folder, Canvas adds a subfolder for each course where you’ve used Collaborations. Each course folder holds the collaborative documents for that class.
- If you manually created a Canvas folder in OneDrive before using Collaborations, that folder can block Canvas from generating the one it needs.
- Open the Canvas folder in OneDrive to determine who created the folder:
- If it contains personal files you created, the folder was probably created by you.
- If it contains subfolders named after Canvas courses, it was probably created by Canvas.
- If it looks like you created the folder, rename it:
- Click the folder’s kebab menu and select Rename.
- Change the folder's name to anything other than "Canvas" (for example, "Canvas Personal Files").
- Return to your Canvas course’s home page, and click Collaborations again:
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- This should prompt Canvas to create a new Canvas folder in OneDrive.
- Collaborations should now function properly, and you should see your course’s Collaboration files in both Canvas and OneDrive.