How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student?

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You can embed an image file directly into discussion replies using the image icon. Images can be embedded from the web, your Canvas user files, or Flickr. If a change is made to the source of your image after you have embedded it in a discussion reply, the image added to your discussion reply will not be changed.

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JAMES SHELDON Apr 3, 2018 8:15 PM
this is exactly what I do on my computer, Ubuntu, and on my Android S5 phone.
However i have students who do NOT see what is show in the attached image that is above the words "SELECT IMAGE" in the above. the little "picture mountain thing" is not there.
james
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- jivedocs@instructure.com @ JAMES SHELDON on Apr 4, 2018 10:24 AM
  Hi JAMES,
  Thanks so much for your comment here in the guides. I did some looking to see if I could reproduce the problem your students are seeing without success. Would you be willing to clarify for me on which kind of device your students can't see the Add Image icon? If they're working in a mobile app, they may need to slide the discussion reply menu to the right to see the Add Image icon. (See the images below that illustrate this.)
  
  Hopefully this helps! If your students can't see the Add Image icon in a browser, or if it doesn't appear in either the browser or a mobile app, this may be a case for the Canvas Support team. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have further questions or if there's anything else we can help with.
  Thanks,
  Allie
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  - JAMES SHELDON @ jivedocs@instructure.com on Apr 4, 2018 10:46 AM
    Hi
    the above image(s) is what I see on an Android s5 Verizon device. the students are having problems on all of the Android devices S2 S3 S4. The Iphone people don't seem to have the problem except, again, on older devices.
    what they do NOT see is the "picture of a mountain from the side" it is not present as an upload option, they have at the bottom Flikr.
    james
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    - jivedocs@instructure.com @ JAMES SHELDON on Apr 4, 2018 11:40 AM
      Hi JAMES,
      Thanks for the follow up with some clarification. After another quick test and a brief checkin with Canvas Support, I'm stumped.
      
      The first troubleshooting step I'd recommend is to encourage your students to update their phone OS and the Canvas app to ensure that the software is running on the most recent updates.
      
      From there, if they still can't see the Attach Image icon, encourage them to contact Canvas Support (via the Help link in the Canvas Global Navigation menu).
      
      Hopefully this helps.
      Thanks,
      Allie
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      - JAMES SHELDON @ jivedocs@instructure.com on Apr 4, 2018 3:33 PM
        When uploading images with a phone to discussions THINK LIKE A PHONE!!!
        
        That comes from my granddad a real American Indian full blood who taught me how to fish or DO ANYTHING in life.
        
        "James, when you go fishing think like a fish and you will always catch fish."
        
        My biology class was having a hay day looking at wee beasties under the microscope and they all started capturing images in their phones, one person with a tablet.
        
        One very smart, perspicacious young lady raised her hand an said "Check Canvas for a picture!" I started to go to the OBLIGATORY COMPUTER and said...umm no...."check your phone" opened Canvas Instructor and there was a gorgeous image from her microscope in the discussion thread about "testing to upload images from phone".
        
        I asked her what steps she went through and she said: "I just shared it".
        
        WE AS EDUCATORS HAVE HAD IT BEAT INTO OUR DEAR LITTLE HEADS, first by the ACT test people that one can ONLY use P.A.S.C.A.L. to answer "programming questions"..... a long time ago and far far away the ACT, SAT people produced "test questions" for "programming"....
        
        Using the language that ALL SCHOOLS USED..... B.A.S.I.C.
        
        An bunch of students got the "result", maybe a ball bouncing on the screen, but the "structure of the program" was wrong so the ANSWER was wrong.
        
        With BASIC one really can kind of make "spaghetti" code and it will work as long as things like for-next loops are nested etc.
        
        So....a bunch of students using the REQUIRED language "got the right answer" but "it was wrong".....BIG BLOWUP....
        
        So next testing cycle the students were required to use P.A.S.C.A.L. which is VERY structured. If you do not do it the "right way" you will not get the "correct answer".
        
        Nothing wrong with that it produces consistent results but it also does not admit of much....."creativity"....
        
        The real problem with using an unstructured language is that someone else has to go back in and MAINTAIN it..... big problems.....
        
        Also Microsoft(tm) requires a certain way to do things....
        
        and it is all rooted in how we "write" in "English" things like the five paragraph essay....start with the first word at the top left and end with the last word bottom right....
        
        Wonderful, it produces consistent results....
        
        But....for uploading an image possibly one does not need to be SO VERY correct in procedure.....
        
        The problem now is that we are not writing on paper with a quill pen we have PLATFORMS and "apps" with differing ways of "doing things".
        
        The rolling of the eyes OF ADMINSTRATORS....is....." we have enough problems getting the students to come to an introduction to Canvas, let alone dealing with two platforms and 6 versions of each....
        
        Going through the "case study" menu system is thinking like the ACT testing people and Microsoft(tm).
        
        AND IT STUMBLES when the particular string of code on the phone OS does not match the string of code at Canvas..not Canvas' coders FAULT....it is the "fault" of haveing the FREEDOM to have different things....
        
        So......the answer....is to think like a fish....
        
        PARADIGM SHIFT.....if you don't know what that is, look it up.
        
        LET THE NATURAL FUNCTION OF A PHONE and HTML5 do the work for you!
        
        Because HTML really IS the "universal interface" especially 5.
        
        a) Grab the image to the phone
        b) long press the image where ever it is on the phones structure to get the "share" function.
        c) share to Canvas.
        
        Badda Bing..... Badda boom.....
        
        Within ten minutes EVERY STUDENT no matter the platform or the version of OS... was swamping the discussion thread with an image.
        
        Badda Bing........Badda boom.....
        
        jamesdoesn'tfishanymoregoestothemarketandthinkslikeagrocersheldon
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        jivedocs@instructure.com @ JAMES SHELDON on Apr 4, 2018 4:07 PM
        Hey JAMES,
        Nicely done! You (and your students) found a way to make the tech work for you! Also, thanks for the reminder that thinking outside the box often yields successful results.
        Let us know if there's anything else we can help with, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions.
        Sincerely,
        Allie
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        JAMES SHELDON @ jivedocs@instructure.com on Apr 4, 2018 11:40 PM
        You folks are my inspiration.
        I am just an old "hardware kinda guy".
        You are the folks that stand up to the MCP.
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