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I am looking forward to learning more about this forum and its purposes.,
My name is Emmanuel Exson Muyenza from Malawi, East Africa, I have lived in the US for 29 years and worked as Therapist in Addiction Field for many years,
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We are glad you are here in the Canvas Community, but I think you may have posted to the wrong area. This is the global Canvas Community website, and it is not a part of your course that you may be taking. This website is for people to come and ask questions about Canvas ... and also a place to review "how to" written tutorials and video tutorials about Canvas. I think what you'd want to be doing is posting your above information in the class you are taking instead. Here is a video tutorial for you that might help:
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