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When answering a Select Answer question in a quiz, some students are missing the DONE button to enter their choice. All students are running the newest IOS update and the Canvas app is up to date. This is happening for 25% of students in a class. Any...

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This is our school district's first year with Canvas as our Learning Management System. We are a 1-to-1 iPad district and therefore our students use the Canvas Student iOS app exclusively. Some of our students were experiencing issues with submitting...

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Canvas student IOS app - when I receive a notification that an assignment has been graded, I tab on the notification, it does not show me the grade of the assignment. It goes into the submission of the assignment not the details of the assignment. Th...

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Students are accessing Canvas via the iOS App. Students are opening an assignment that normally contains a PDF for students to annotate. Using the markup features built within the Canvas Student app, students insert text, draw, etc. When the students...

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I am a parent looking at a calendar to see what assignments are posted. Why if I go through the school districts web site to enter canvas vs using the app ( I am on the same device), the calendar format is different. It is much easier to see the info...

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My Canvas App on an iOs phone is no longer recognizing my school ID and I am unable to log in.I am able to log in on my PC without a problem so my Username and Password is still valid.I deleted the app and reinstalled but it still didn't work.

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Has anyone else seen this issue?A student is viewing his grades in the Student App. His scores on the assignments are not what the teacher entered into the gradebook. All other instances of the scores are showing correct. Somewhere the Student App is...

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It won’t let me find the school

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Many of my students are not able to open PDF's in the student app. They get some weird error message when they click to open the PDF. It's happening to students all over the school. I tell them to use the web site, which works fine. Is anyone else ha...

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Can not log in to Canvas teacher app. Says invalid username/password.100% sure they are both correct... it's 2019... just using copy/pasteExact same account info allows me to log in on the instructor website...Can anyone spare some help here?

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I clicked on "Add Cover Image" and I chose one of the options. After a while I didn't like it so I tried to find a way to remove it. I deleted my profile picture on my files, and I clicked "Rest cache on next launch" and "Open external tools in safar...

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How do I stay login to the canvas app?

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I am looking for help with 2 things:1. Speedgrading on a tablet using an ipencil (so I can write on the pdf directly using a "pen"):  currently, when I access a pdf assignment, my ipencil just pushes the paper around, rather than writing on it, defea...

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Hi, my students are not seeing the options to add their mobile phone numbers in order to receive text messages from Canvas.  Any advice as how to do that?  Thank you.

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It won't let me receive notifications from my phone. My phone is registered in the canvas site. I went to the settings in my phone to allow canvas to send me notifications. Each time I try to access the notification preferences from the app, it says ...

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My students use Notability on their iPads and export their document as a PDF. I want the students to be able to attach the PDF of their homework to the assignment. I have turned on all assignment types, but they can't seem to attach a PDF. Any ideas?...

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Hi there!I am trying to find example code of javascript for the mobile apps (uploaded via the theme editor in Canvas)Just an example so i can see and verify that it works The goal further down the road is that I want to be able to add my own menu ite...

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Is anyone else having trouble with the student app?It doesn't seem to be working. 

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The calendar icon is not showing up in the navigation bar on my instructor app of Canvas.

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I can see all of my course contents in the mobile app, but I can't see anything through the WilmU page...I'm trying to access all of my assignments and discussion board to upload a video, and I have access to it on my cell phone but not on my web bro...

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I want my kids to work in groups for a project and on my end on the laptop, I can click between people and groups, but on the iPad, there is no option to get to groups.  How are the kids supposed to sign up for a group if they cannot see more than ju...

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I'm an instructor using the Canvas Polls App.  Is there a way I can see how many of my students have answered the question?

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On my iPad, I can log into Canvas without any problems, but when I try to access information in my classes in "Files" or "Modules" or even the syllabus, it's like the page never loads.  I can see the HTML tag is correct, but on my iPad, it doesn't sh...

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I'm unable to find my school in the canvas app and the instructions provided does not work. My school URL is student.emeritus.org.Can anyone help?

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how do I send announcement to my iphone

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I have been trying to figure out a way of using the Canvas app to submit multiple pages of an assignment as a single file. I can use the camera option to make multiple jpg photos, but I don't see a way to combine them into a single file. Is it possib...

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

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How do students submit photos and text in the same assignment on the canvas app

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Hi there!I wonder if there is any way for me to show LTI modules within the Canvas mobile apps?Right now, when a user clicks on a link in a course in the apps, a new browser window opens within the app.But I want to show the content of the LTI while ...

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