Setting up an MS Form as a Canvas Assignment

You can embed forms into Canvas assigments to provide students with a due date for when they must complete the form by. You might do this if you want students to provide emergency contact details, for example.


How to embed a form into a Canvas Assignment

Before you embed your form into a Canvas assignment, you should design and create your form. Find out more about creating forms.

Once you’ve created your form,

  1. Select ‘collect responses’
  2. Select the embed option, which looks like an html tag
  3. Copy the embed code
  4. Visit your Canvas course and create a new assignment
    1. Title your assignment and provide a brief description in the RCE
    2. Select ‘Insert>Embed’ and then paste the embed code you copied
  5. Leave the assignment with 0 points
  6. Select ‘Ungraded assignment’
  7. Set the due date, available from date, and available until date 

Tech Tip: Embedding a form into a Canvas assignment

If you’d like to watch a demonstration of the above process, take a look at our video below.


Taking attendance

You can also use MS Forms to take attendance. Find out more here.

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