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Good afternoon, everyone, I don't know the answer to this, so if it isn't possible, that's fine. However, because I'm unsure, I'm putting it here.There have been several links inside my Canvas, where I'd like to read the material on my phone when I'm...

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I am having some difficulty using the Canvas Mobile App to access and post in the discussion forums. When I try to open the forum on my phone, it sometimes takes a long time to load, or I can’t find where to reply to other students’ posts. It seems e...

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I have one student on the app but how do I get a pairing code for my other child. Thank you!

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So I have the app on my phone and iPad and I can open assignments, when its blank it has an option for a submit but when I fill in the assignment it no longer has the option for me to turn it in. Do I need to do something different or do I need to op...

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I love being able to highlight text (in text formatting mode) in a pdf on Canvas Student for IOS. However, sometimes I accidentally highlight too much and want to get rid of part of the highlight. Is there any way to get rid of just part of a highlig...

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I have noticed on my Kindle Fire tablet, that after logging in to canvas, and going to view student work in the Speed Grader function, the documents will not scroll. That is, I can only see what is on the first few paragraphs. Up until recently, on m...

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No easy way to know what assignments have comments from your teacher/professor in the Canvas Student App. Currently you can click into each assignment and click on Submission & Rubric to see if you have a submission.  In the browser you have a place ...

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A student in my class has a quiz log report of leaving their quiz a couple times during exam, but when questioned, the student stated that they accidentally kept swiping the Slide Over feature on their iPad over their screen while taking the exam in ...

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Hello,  I am currently having an issue with the Canvas Student mobile app on IOS. Last night, the app was working as normal until this morning. When I try to open the app, it instantly kicks me out and closes the app. I have been trying to open it su...

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 Hello I want to change the settings and update the app language to English on canvas on my iPad (it’s in Spanish right now). The desktop version of canvas says my preferred language is English, which is my desired preference for the app as well, but...

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In the Canvas Teacher app, suddenly the 'grading panel' is open by default every time I open a student paper.  This is so frustrating/time-consuming, as I now have to close the panel, then select the pen icon so I can write on the paper.  I would lov...

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Hello to all and thanks for any help anyone can provide.  As recently as the end of the 24/25 school year in June, when my students turned in an assignment I would use my Canvas iPhone app to look at student grades and record them into my gradebook o...

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I'm a teacher that makes extensive use of Outcomes and alignments. The assignment view of my gradebook is pretty meaningless to students, and all of the information about growth and mastery of different learning objectives in the class is displayed i...

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Hey Canvas Instructure team, Recently I got a forced update on my Canvas IOS app, now my To-Do list is completely butchered. No longer do I have the red bubble on my app that lets me know how many things I have to do-which really was one of my saving...

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Hello Instructure team. I just noticed that this new canvas update has a major flaw with the to-do list system. I can’t swipe done on any of them and the little red bubble doesn’t show on the app to tell me what I have completed. I literally have to ...

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Once the app is downloaded, currently we are unable to log into the app. Its asks for the school name and we are not affiliated with a school. I read that the staff/students should have access to the app in the free version but as of now we can only ...

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How do we go about changing the options so that everyone can adjust Canvas to their liking when it comes to the To Dos?I was highly organized with the previous way the To Dos worked: Sunday-Sunday, a set number of To Dos and once completed, if the in...

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Anyone else out there start having quite a few reports of students being logged out of the Canvas app (As in on next open of Canvas app on iPad it will ask for School ...) after app updates on iOS 18.5.x+ iPads to 8.01/8.1? This is starting to become...

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Bring back the filter for sections.  Bring back the ability to see if an assignment is late--and now, I cannot write on my iPad to make notes on the student's assignments.  I'm not sure what you did in the upgrade, but it needs to be immediately reve...

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Hello I am able to view assignment grades on web however assignment grades are not available on my mobile device.  I followed the mobile iOS guide but I do not have the same options as shown.  On my mobile device, there is a banner that says 'total g...

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Parents are reporting that they see a Lock symbol on the top left of course cards on the iOS app. Last year they were able to see the student's total grade, but this year it is a lock. I cannot figure out where to change this. Neither can ChatGPT.   ...

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I just logged on and Canvan is refreshed with this year's class. is there a way to see last school year's grade that with details of each period?ThanksCathleen

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Hello Everyone, I'm Namrata Hinduja from Geneva, Swiss. Since updating to UI 7.0, I haven’t been able to access my to-do list—it just shows an "oops" error. I’ve already tried everything I could think of: logging out, starring courses, restarting my ...

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I would like to be able to see my canvas grades whenever I click on a graded notification in the notification tab. Currently it just shows the submission and rubric but I would like to see what grade I earned on it without having to navigate all the ...

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I have 3 children in the same school system. When using the mobile app it list all 3 children's classes. They are not organized and they are all jumbled together. They run by class period, then A or B day, and then alphabetical. I have a 12th grader,...

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I have the Teacher Canvas app on my iPad.    Last year, I was able to annotate student work with my Apple Pencil on uploaded student work.    This year, however, when I click on the Assignment, I am unable to annotate the assignment. I can still assi...

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The To-do List Widget on Canvas (iOS) app for iPad and iPhone doesn’t show the material. Canvas reverted back to the older version of the To-do list but it doesn’t work. When you click on the widget it opens to the To-do list but does not show the ma...

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I am having issues with the Canvas teacher app with the iPad. I always cross list my courses because I teach the same class a few time a day. Last year, I was able to filter through assignments by class periods which made grading and checking that st...

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 It seems that teachers can no longer annotate onto student assignments when they have been submitted as a PDF. This was available last year and made it possible to use a stylus to grade and leave feedback directly onto the PDF that the student submi...

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My school is in the Central US time zone and I live in the Eastern US time zone. On my PC, Canvas is set to Central time and all of the assignments are due at 11:59pm on say for example August 24. On the app, the to-do list shows 12:59am August 25. I...

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