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Hello, I have created a few Google Drive Cloud assignments on Canvas and am trying to grade them with Speed Grader. When I use the desktop version of Canvas, the Google document appears along with annotation tools. However, when I use the Canvas Teac...

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I can't get Chat to work in the Android Canvas Instructor app. Is there a setting on my phone I can change, or is this a bug? I'm using Chat and Zoom for my online office hours while teaching remotely, and I'd really like to leave chat open on my pho...

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Hi, all.I make a page with attach some jpg image.I cannot pinch-in/out any image (both of embedded and external link image) with iOS app but android app can do it.Is this a specification of iOS app?If does anyone know any  solution?Thank you.

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I have a student who is primarily using the Canvas Student app on a tablet for our online course. Apparently, the assigned peer reviews are not displayed with the assignment in the Canvas Student app. I have checked the mobile guides and the other re...

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Whoops! Something went wrong… This is the message I get when I try to grade. He claims that it’s being worked on but it’s been weeks…can anyone help?

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I have students who all use the Canvas Student app on an iPad. Some say when they go to an assignment there is no submit button and others are now having issues when they go to submit it fails. This is not an issue for all of my students but only a s...

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I am a TA for a class of >200 I have to swipe through all the students starting from the first in alphabetical order (the app crashes every time now so I can’t even make any progress) every time I open the app. Is there any way to choose from a list ...

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When using speedgrader on my ipad, the student's assignment (google slide or Kami) doesn't load anymore so I can annotate. It is just blank. Is anyone else experiencing this with the new IOS update?

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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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Every time I open my Canvas page my buttons are different sizes.  I'd love for the button on the left to be larger than the others, but not if it means the other buttons change sizes every time I open the page!  Look:   Here's my code:  </tr><tr sty...

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On the Student Mobile app I am receiving every notification twice. I had 68 notifications this morning when I should have only had 34. How can I fix this?

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Reported by colleagues: When using pen tool in Doc Viewer to annotate submitted assignments, on Canvas via iPad we’ve found the document moves around only when you go to write on it! Is there a way to lock/fix the doc to be able to annotate? Colleagu...

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Is it possible to create a button on a course homepage to link to an app on a student's iPad? I am an instructional coach trying to help a teacher who wants to link to Khan Academy Kids. 

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I was using Speedgrader on the iPad because it's amazingly smoother and more efficient to give feedback on Google Cloud Assignments. All of a sudden, it isn't showing any of the students' work. What's going on and how can I fix that? I really don't w...

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I'm working with an instructor to help him with his online class. He said that he can no longer see .cpp and .m file types on his iPad when students submit them for grading. He was able to do this over the summer, so it appears to be a glitch with a ...

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I just started using the Canvas Teacher app on my iPad to grade primarily. Why do some types of documents not "show up" in the DocViewer? The biggest one I notice is Excel. I'm an Accounting teacher, and I'm frustrated that students' Excel files aren...

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Just recently (around 9/18), the keyboard function stopped working in my Canvas Teacher app. I'm on Android. The keyboard pops up for me to log in, but once I start trying to grade if I click on a field to grade then the keyboard does not pop up any ...

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Hello, Just recently (around 9/18), the keyboard function stopped working in my Canvas Teacher app. The keyboard pops up for me to log in, but once I start trying to grade if I click on a field to grade the keyboard does not pop up any more.More Info...

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On the iPad, when you add a comment to a pin while annotating student work, Canvas Teacher deletes all your comment text with no warning message if you click on "Done" without first clicking on the up-arrow icon to the right of the text.  I only disc...

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Words cannot express how angry I am, having graded for the first time using Canvas Teacher on my iPad.  On the computer version, adding comments to a pin is straightforward.  You write the comment, type return, it's saved, you move on. Grading on my ...

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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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Why won't the Canvas Parent App for ios work for Clark County School District? I am paired up as an observer and can see the students' courses through my personal computer. However, I see nothing in the Canvas Parent app. I decided I'd reinstall the ...

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Even though our college has set up templates in Modules format students see items that are hidden in the course setup.  Is there a way to align the mobile view so that students see the modules format, rather than all the confusing navigational tabs t...

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We have updated the canvas version 6.9 app on our student ipads on 9/15.  When they click on the app - we find school goes to our login - you login but you get the web version and it put a notice up that there is an app for canvas - shows installed (...

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How do i get the canvas app on my phone since now its a different design i am unable to use my old canvas i used when i was doing pathway and now i am in my degree program, how do i do the transition?

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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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EDIT TO THE EDIT: So according to Kami support, the inability to open Kami assignments for grading is a Canvas iOS issue.  While I think Canvas is aware of it, not sure if there is any action on their part to fix it.  Apparently Canvas didn't set up ...

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Hi, I did some embedded activities through canvas and just one student told me that he is having issues on his mobile device, he says that the keyboard from his android cell does not pops up. This prevents him to answer any type in answer. He can nav...

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We are unclear on how the parent notifications work. Can the teacher control which notifications the parents see? I understand the parents can manipulate the notification options on their app, but can the teacher control which notifications they can ...

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