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The canvas website will not fully load. Nothing will show up, but what is on the file attached below. My mobile app works fine, but the website on my laptop will not work. 

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one child has graduated so i no longer need to see him in Canvas  - how do i delete him so i only see the current active student?

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how do i take a picture of a signed document and post it to a class on canvas to my teacher,  it is part of my homework assignment,

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Good Morning. I am look for the 800- number for canvas support. Thanks Carl

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Hi, my course is starting but when I Open Canvas without any display, but it can be operated on the mobile phone, what should I do?

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hi, i logged into my student canvas and there is a blank screen on my laptop. How do I fix this issue and I also use a Chromebook OS .

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Hi, How can Canvas work in philippines? I am from california and I have emergency travel coming up. 2 months ago, my friend said that canvas did not work on her laptop, but only on mobile phones. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you so much

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I am relatively new to Canvas and trying to emulate things I've done with Google Forms.  Is It possible to force field formats using validations in Canvas?For example, in a quiz (which I am actually using as a signature form), I'd like a fill in the ...

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Hello,I am a university student and we use Canvas quite a bit. We migrated to the platform and I want to ensure I have a profile that's rounded out.I tried adding a cell phone to my Canvas profile. Since my number is a Verizon number, it insists in a...

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After assigning students to sections, their section designation does not appear in People view!?

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When teaching two or more sections of the same class, it seems very easy to get them mixed up in Canvas. While you can determine which class is which, by viewing the header at the top, often I'm scrolled down where the header isn't visible, and even ...

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At the beginning of a new school year, I bulk import parents into Canvas.  I need to know which parents are already in Canvas.  The only information in Canvas that matches the information we have on our parents is their email.  When I run Canvas repo...

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Hello, when I click on "Dashboard" on Canvas, the screen looks strange with just bunch of squares.  What does this mean?  I can't work on my courses nor syllabi uploading because none of these squares are clickable and there is no label on any of the...

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Every time it does the count down it immediately turns off.

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This has been a problem that I have been having with my computer for a long time. Everytime I try to access Canvas it always shows this (see attached image), and I am unable to click on anything. Is there any way to fix this? I have tried resetting t...

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I want to know if I have to wait for students to be added before cross listing sections.

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My district did not renew LockDown Browser. However, all of my tests still have the requirement of Lockdown Browser saved in the settings. I can not access LockDown anymore to removed the requirement. I get a message to contact administration who hav...

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I am not able to get assignments and quizzes in Canvas

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I am a teacher and I am an observer for my own child. I used a different email than my school district email. When I log in, you can see I am an observer, but when I click on observing, it shows no student is being observed. How do I fix this? I subm...

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I'm importing an entire course that was made by a colleague who lives in a different timezone (Pacific), but I live in the Mountain timezone.  All the due dates for assignments and to-do dates for discussions show up on the calendar 1 hour too late. ...

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Hi, we want to assign peer review so that the students can review each other's papers. For instance, student A reviews student B's paper, and student B reviews student A's paper. Is there an easy way to do this in Canvas? Or do we have to just assign...

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When i click on the courses I want to appear on my dashboard.  The star is highlighted but the couses will not appear on the dashboard.  The facilitator traing course I unstarred it and it will not go off the dashboard.I have contacted Virtual Arkans...

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I sent a URL for a student to enroll in our course and they tried to access the course, but get an error message and cannot access the course. Error Message shows as: {"errors":[{"message":"An error occurred.","error_code":"unprocessable_entity"}]}

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Colleagues, We're still using Discussions Classic. An instructor has created a group forum (two student groups) so that students only see and reply to their student group. The 'show responses after posting' is selected. All settings look normal. But ...

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I tried logging out on my different devices in hopes for my courses to show up on my front page, but all I am getting is missing canvas sections. How can I fix it ? I clipped a file below to show you how it looks like.

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On my Macbook Pro, Chrome Browser embedded videos and images are not playing. The help given in the canvas pages is not helpful as the button showed there is not available on the browser

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We noticed an odd, buggy behavior in the new Canvas Assignment tool. When student submit assignments using Kaltura or Panopto plugin from the Canvas toolbar (maybe other video sources), the video appears twice in the submission box. Weirder yet, clic...

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