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One of my students was asking me today why one of her classes has a lock symbol in the Canvas app dashboard even though the class is published and open.  This is not one of my classes, so I have told the student to check with her instructor.  But I a...

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How many courses am I able to view at one time in the Parent app for Android?

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Hello, Before Apple switched over to iOS 15, Speak Selection would work within the Canvas App on an iPad. Speak Selection still works everywhere else on the iPad, Voice Over is not having issues. I have tried toggling speak selection on and off and t...

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When using iOS version (any version that I have handy, from 15.3 to 14.7.1), iPad or iPhone, using Safari, Chrome, or the ClassLink app to browser, when I am in a discussion post and I want to reply using the camera to make a video, the video tool di...

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For some reason my letter grade shows up as an F when I have a 97.35% in the class I am taking, I brought this up to my professor but she did not know why it was showing up like that. The F only shows on my canvas app but when I am using my computer ...

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I am creating this to point you to a solution if you are having this issue. After adding our 'paid for' Zoom to Canvas and it was working in the Canvas Courses our Faculty and Students suddenly discovered that the menu links for Zoom were not working...

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I’ve used the canvas widget for two years now. This semester the assignments that have been graded lost correctly but my final course grade isn’t visible. Only on class shows and i’m taking two. I checked to see if the courses were favorited and they...

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Hi! This is a very minor issue, but I figured I would ask. My canvas app on my iphone recently changed the class "dashboard" view to be stacked rectangles (picture attached), rather than the squares where I could see every class at once. I'm not sure...

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I am following the updated docs and still getting errors

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The mobile app does not allow me to attach files to messages on my samsung devices.

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Hi, I redownloaded Canvas for the start of the semester, but my dashboard is set to list view for all of my classes. It used to be card view, which I liked because I was able to see all of my classes without scrolling. Some other forums said that you...

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When you use canvas in the browser you can change the dashboard from card view to list view. Which for me makes it easier to nagivate through canvas. REcently I got the canvas app but I can not find the option to change the dashboard from card view t...

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When I want to open the mobile Canvas app I downloaded in the Play Store, I get redirected to the web version. Each time I have to fill in my credentials again. Can somebody help me to get the normal app version of Canvas for students

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Set up on Macbook but doesn't sync to mobile app for Calendar and To Do.  Used QR code for login.  

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Students have submitted PDF annotations using the iPad.  Can they pick up where they left off and revise the same document with their saved work? OR once they submit do they not have a way to continue to edit it using PDF annotation via the Canvas st...

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I am struggling with clutter on my Grades Widget. The Widget does not automatically remove previous classes, so my Home Screen looks like Picture 1. Classes like Bio 101, Chem Lab I, Hebrew Bible, etc. are still there despite the classes being marked...

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I notice that math formulas do not render properly on the Canvas app on iOS.   Formulas that I constructed using MathJax show up as raw LaTeX when viewed on an iPad with the app.  They look fine viewed with the Safari browser.   Bizarrely, I did a te...

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How do I record a video response in a discussion in the mobile app?

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I'm a teacher. I embedded a microsoft form in a canvas assignment so students could complete the form on canvas. However on some students' mobile devices, the form doesn't show up on the assignment page. It does on others so I am at a loss. Have othe...

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Can one submit quizzes using the mobile app?

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I use the canvas teacher app to grade papers on my ipad pro 12.9 (4th generation). As you can see from the screen shot below, there is no way to close the side bar, which makes it impossible to grade in portrait mode and only a bit easier to grade in...

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Any have any idea to disable the push notification received on mobile when the professor makes an annotation to your submission? I just spent the last hour listening to my phone go off as my professor annotated several parts of my paper. It was crazy...

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While grading on my tablet, I occasionally need to remove a late penalty that is automatically applied to a student's submission. Sadly, the only place to do that appears to be in the gradebook on the full desktop browser version of Canvas (not in th...

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I'm not sure its a bug, but all the my courses are missing the apps says I'm not enrolled to any courses. On my laptop I see my courses perfectly fine just not on mobile, I am on the right account as well. Then one of my classmates had the same issue...

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Hi. I am using my mobile device while taking an exam and I decided to play music. After finishing the exam, I have been wondering if receiving a messenger chat while taking the quiz/exam will be flagged as leaving the browser or cheating. Also, does ...

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When grading in the Canvas Teacher app on the iPad, I can push the grades-comments-files pane out of the way in portrait view.  But the minute I rotate the iPad to landscape, it becomes a pane taking up 1/3 of the screen — and I can't see any way to ...

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I have classes at two schools and am able to "Change User" on the mobile app but I wantedto know if I had that same option on a desktop and if so, how do I do that? I went through thesame prompts on the desktop but the "Change User" link is NOT there...

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Hello. I am a parent and already have an account set up. As I'm getting ready for the school year, I am wondering why I don't have the Observing tab under Accounts in my account so I can pair up with my son's account. Please advise. These are the onl...

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Documentation about building canvas-android, in github, is not working.I've tried the steps described in the readme.md file:./gradle/gradlew -p apps :student:assembleDevDebugAnd then got the following result/error:> Configure project :============= M...

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Can the app be downloaded onto the an Amazon Fire tablet? Or is there another way they can do their work on this type of tablet?

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