Step by Step: Restricting Assignments to Known File Types with a Template File and Microsoft Education

Supply students with an Office Document which is copied and used as a submission. For example: A Word document with questions which students need to fill in the answers for.
 

Step 1:  Save an assignment starter file in OneDrive for use in the following steps.
 

Step 2: Navigate to the assignments menu.

Step 3: Choose to add a new assignment.
 

Step 4: Fill in the assignment details such as a temporary title (this gets renamed in a future step), description, points and due date.

Step 5: Under "Submission Type" choose External Tool.

Step 6: In the field under find an "External Tool URL", choose Find.

Step 7: In the Link Resource from External Tool choose Microsoft Education.

Step 8: In File picker choose your Template file and select Attach. Please note: When you do this your assignment name will be named as the file is named and may need further modificaiton.

Step 9: Complete the dialog by choosing Select.

Final Step: Complete the Assignment creation by changing the assignment name and then choosing Save.