How do I paste photos into canvas discussion

[sa87020]

Trying to add a picture into my discussion but cannot get it to paste or even carry in from a word file-Help!

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hello  @sa87020  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  Thank you for posting your question.  It is not possible to just paste in a photo into a discussion topic (to the discussion prompt itself or as a reply to a discussion topic).  I'm not sure if you are an instructor or a student, but I'll give you a handful of Guides that should help:

• Instructors
  • How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
  • How do I embed images from Flickr Creative Commons in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
  • How do I embed images from the web in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
  • How do I insert course images into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector as an instruct...
  • How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as an instructor?
• Students
  • How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student?

I hope one or more of these Guides will be of help to you, John.  Please sing out if you have any questions about the information I've provided.  Thanks!

[sa87020]

Thank you so much for your info-BTW, I am a doctoral student. Thanks so

much!

Phil

[AprilBaughman]

I have done this and it worked before, but now for the past three weeks I am getting an error message "something went wrong, check your connection and try again". I have restarted my computer, logged off and in, reset my internet. I am not having issue with my internet with anything, only when posting images. I can comment and post in canvas in the discussion just not letting me insert or attach an image. 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @AprilBaughman …

To be sure, are you following the information in one of these Guides?

• How do I upload and embed an image in the Rich Content Editor as a student?
• How do I upload and embed an image in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor as a student?
• How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?

Looking forward to hearing back from you soon.