Student: How do I upload an image, PowerPoint, or other file to a Discussion?
You will learn how to upload an image, a PowerPoint, or other file to a Discussion in your course in Canvas.
1. Click on the link to your Discussion.
2. Click on Reply.
Follow these steps to upload an image to display in your post.
1. Click on the Images icon.
2. Select Upload Image.
Tip: Be sure to resize your image to the dimensions at which you want to display it. This will help you stay within the Canvas File Storage Quota.
3. Drag the image file on your computer to the upload area.
4. Type appropriate Alt text for this image.
5. Decide whether the image should display in your post of be a link.
6. Click on Submit.
7. Click on Reply to post your response.
8. Your post will now show the image displayed within your post.
Follow these steps to upload a file as a link within your discussion post using Dropbox. Since a PowerPoint with a lot of images, narration, video embeds can be 100s of MegaBytes. You can use this same process to upload any file type.
1. Click on the Documents icon.
2. If the file is small, select Upload Document.
Tip: If the file size is large, you might encounter an upload error, or it may consume too much of your file storage quota. Therefore, consider using Dropbox instead.
Another choice is to compress the PowerPoint to make the file size smaller.
3. Drag the file to the upload area.
If you received the following error, "File storage quota exceeded", then you either already are too close to your file storage quota for Canvas (this is the maximum file storage amount you as a student can have on Canvas which is currently 262MB), or this file is simply larger than the allowed amount that you can upload to a course as a student.
In this situation, you need to do one or more of the following: delete files from old courses, compress the file you are trying to upload, or use Dropbox to host the file and simply provide a link to your file in Dropbox.
4. Click on Submit.
5. Click on Reply.
6. Your post is now in the Discussion.
Your PowerPoint is available via the link in the post.
Article Summary
You have now learned how to upload an image, PowerPoint, or other file to a Discussion post.