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In Brightspace Tip #562: Microsoft OneDrive, I suggested that you could use the Microsoft OneDrive Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) integration to easily insert files directly from OneDrive into your Brightspace courses.

Microsoft released a new Microsoft 365 Document LTI integration to replace the existing classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI integration. The classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI is scheduled to sunset on September 17, 2026. This is important because if you used the classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI integration to insert OneDrive files into your courses, you must take action before September 17th. After that date, any content links in courses using the classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI will stop working. Files created by the classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI will remain accessible through the course's Microsoft 365 Group and SharePoint site. Currently, there's no automatic migration path or copy available from classic Microsoft OneDrive file links to Microsoft 365 Document LTI file links used in Brightspace courses. You can manually migrate files by reselecting and re-linking or embedding the file through the new Microsoft 365 Document LTI in Brightspace course content.

Follow these steps to do it.

One-time per course configuration

Before the new Microsoft 365 Document LTI can be used to link documents in a course, a one-time configuration process must be completed. This one-time configuration must be done in each course.

During the configuration process, you will be prompted to select Microsoft apps to be enabled. For this step, you should enable OneDrive and disable the other apps as shown in the gif above. Detailed instructions can be found in this Microsoft 365 Document integration guide.

Add OneDrive files to your course modules

Once you complete the one-time (per course) configuration process, you will be able to use the Microsoft 365 Document LTI to add OneDrive files to your Brightspace course modules. From the Existing Activities link, choose Microsoft 365 Document and navigate to locate the file you want to link to.

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Microsoft 365 Document Integration to link OneDrive files in Brightspace
Microsoft 365 LTI app in Brightspace

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Update 8/20/2026: The classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI will sunset on September 17, 2026. Please refer to Brightspace Tip #599: Microsoft 365 Document LTI for information on the new integration.

Did you know you can easily insert files directly from OneDrive into your courses? The Microsoft OneDrive Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) App is integrated into our Brightspace system. Using the LTI could be helpful if your files are already stored in your Microsoft OneDrive.

The Microsoft OneDrive LTI is a significant shift from the traditional method of uploading files directly from your hard drive. When you insert a OneDrive file into Brightspace using the OneDrive LTI integration, a copy of the file is created for the course. This means the file in Brightspace is independent of the original file in your personal OneDrive.

You can edit the copy of your Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly in Brightspace. Any edits made to the file within Brightspace will not affect the original file in OneDrive, and vice versa.

NOTE:

• The copy of the file is stored in a dedicated SharePoint site that is automatically created for the course by the LTI integration. Brightspace provides a link to this SharePoint-hosted copy, but the file itself is managed by Microsoft’s SharePoint/OneDrive backend, not Brightspace’s internal file system.
• Care should be taken when copying components of a course into another course. When copying linked or associated components, you must copy all of the related components at the same time. For example, the Microsoft OneDrive LTI content topic links to a SharePoint-hosted file, you must copy both components at the same time (in the same copy operation). As long as the associated components are copied together, links between them are retained. Copying the entire course into another course will maintain the links.

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Use Microsoft OneDrive with your LMS
Known Issue: Microsoft OneDrive LTI and Pulse App
Brightspace Tip #559: Copy Course or Copy Components

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