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Dear Canvas team: I was wondering if the team could upload or provide the general APK version for Canvas Student in the Play Store, not the App Bundled version? Thanks!

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Is anyone having problems with the quality of annotations written with a stylus being saved as low resolution or poor quality? When I create the annotations, they follow my handwriting, but if I go back and view a previously graded exam, the annotati...

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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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Since updating to version 6.9.2 any images that my son’s teacher had loaded in the Canvas courses that’s he had for his kindergarten program are no longer visible. All that he can now see is the image file name and a box where the image is supposed t...

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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 installed the Canvas Parent app (Android) a few days ago to link to my student's new Canvas account, and noticed right away that I wasn’t able to open the calendar in the app due to an error ("There was an error loading your student's calendar").  ...

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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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HI All, When I use SpeedGrade in the Canvas App on my iPad, the annotations (being able to write directly on the submitted file) work pretty seamlessly.  But when I try to use the Canvas Browser window and use Speed Grader and a Drawing pad, the anno...

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Are there any very simple examples of a student overview orientation guide on how to use canvas. We are a small training organisation and don't need anything overly complicated. Also any guidelines on the best way for use to set up our orientation.In...

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Hi there, I'm putting together a training course that relies on screen cast videos. When I upload the videos directly to Canvas, I've noticed that the default playback quality is 126 kbps. In order to see the detail in the screen cast videos, I need ...

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Any thoughts as to why the "Grade Slider" would not be showing for a teacher in the grading section of the teacher app? . 

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how can i download the canvas student app on my macbook air?

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How do i send links from my discussion posts to my student that will open directly in the canvas student app? When i send the url in a text or email it opens in a browser when my students click the link on their smart devices.

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I plan to have my students submit handwritten work using the Canvas Student App.  When testing the app, I opened an assignment, and then took a picture of a the assignment using the submit/turn in tabs on the student app.  When I looked at the submis...

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One of my faculty members is getting all of the app notifications twice and wondered if anyone else was noticing this. I checked her notification settings and didn't see anything I thought was out of the ordinary. Suggestion appreciated!

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