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How do I change my Canvas Community username? I'm a student, and while I understand the Be You policy,  I don't my first and last name here, and previous posts about the subject didn't apply/were sometimes archived.

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I went to write a blog post today and I could not embed a video in the main part of the post. I am sure the icon was there before and my previous posts have this. I cannot find anything in the Community What has happened to the icon?    

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Does anyone know where to find an algebra tutor I really for zoom need help?

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The email address that is currently associated with my Canvas community account is going away, According to How do I update my personal profile information in the Instructure Community?, I should be able to change it be editing my email settings.  Ho...

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Pollyfill.io is a known malware vector and the domain was delisted by their host in February. The community landing page calls polyfill.io's libraries, here's a cloudflare article on why that's a bad idea: https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatically-re...

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Changing your avatar to your picture doesn't seem intuitive, or maybe I'm slow. Can someone tell me how to do that, pretty please? 

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I know I can use Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acommunity.canvaslms.com), but why is the search here so awful? It's not even boolean as best I can tell.

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My notification feed has not updated for two days. Is anyone else having this problem?

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Yay! I just got a 4 year badge in the Canvas Community.  The only problem is I've been in Community since 2011. It is now 2024.  Not dire, but who might be able to update my Community Account?   I want to keep access to all of my articles or comments...

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Microsoft is quarantining my daily digest. Looks like it's due to DMARC, DKIM, and SPF failures. It could be something in our environment of course. Authentication-Results: spf=fail (sender IP is 35.174.145.124)smtp.mailfrom=em9032.us.khoros-mail.com...

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Is there a way to disable the confetti animation in Canvas Community?  It appears every time I click on the Community Hub and Canvas navigation menu buttons and I would like to stop seeing it when I'm trying to navigate to a certain area in the commu...

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How to change my username on here? I looked at some solutions but they are 2 years old. 

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I seem to not be able to edit my display name in canvas.  I am unsure who to go to for this though. Any suggestions? Thanks and much love

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I recently changed jobs which means my Canvas accounts have changed. Can I add multiple email addresses to my Canvas Community Profile? If not, should I use a personal one or my work one since my job currently also has a Canvas instance. 

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Conferences, 'Cons, Virtuals, PDs, Instructional Days, Bootcamps, Fireside Chats. Whatever you call them, they fill us with ideas, knowledge, and a burning desire to get back into action and put what we have learned into practice.  Often we leave an...

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Tl;dr: All guides will remain accessible via the Community but we need to close down a really old secondary guides site. What is changing? On Monday August 8, 2022 old guide URLs containing ‘guides.instructure.com’ will be taken offline.    Will this...

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Hi! I have some questions about your ranksystem. We're a community situated in the Netherlands (Khoros partner  ) and we are currently working on a new setup for our rankingsystem. It looks like you have a new fantastic system which is well consider...

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  June 19th, or Juneteenth, is an important day in American history. That day in 1865 commemorated the ending of slavery across the United States. While significant steps forward have been made, this day is also a reminder that we must always be doi...

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Can I change my Canvas Community user name (NOT my Canvas user name)?

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I have many cosmetic suggestions that would be welcomed and applaluded by teachers, but I don't want to waste my time if the culture is to initally look for a reason to reject a suggestion. I have many years in IT and programming and I am confident m...

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Hi,  How do I change how my Canvas Community username is displayed? I saw this answer https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Change-Canvas-Community-username/m-p/111059/highlight/true#M35484 but it's old and I do not know how to dir...

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I am super disappointed that so many of your help videos are not captioned.  As an ADA specialist, at a University that uses your products, this is a very ableist situation.  Many of our staff and faculty use captioning, and I know MANY others at oth...

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I had blog posts and guides and ratings and once I was given a Canvas feature called "Don Bryn takes Canvas to the next Octave". . .     But I can't find anything but some photos that are all "hidden".  I need all of this material for my professional...

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Simple question -- what is a canvas participant versus a canvas member?

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Hello - I am trying to figure out if there is a way to search for a specific word without searching for the word stem. For example, I'm trying to search for words with "disability" or "accessibility", but even when I put quotations around the word th...

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Many of us are waiting to hear about the timeline for discussions redesign - for my university the anonymous function is specifically important for many of our users. Unfortunately Instructure doesn't keep the roadmap updated: https://community.canva...

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I've been using Canvas for years and only just discovered that enough users have to "vote" to get a suggested feature implemented. Then I found that the voting system was replaced by stars. This all sounds nice, but the problem is I never would have ...

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This is an idea for this forum. The "Hot Ideas" sorting of the New Ideas page has posts from 2015! Maybe move those into a different area or clear them out periodically? It makes it difficult for recent ideas to rise to the top. 

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