Pages won't open doc or docx documents

I am a professor and my students upload papers to a LMS either as a doc or docx. I then download them and open them in Pages. Suddenly I am no longer able to open any documents in Pages. Can someone please

Yes, I can open Pages and create a new document. I can also open documents I created and saved in Pages. I cannot open documents my students create (presumably in MS Word) anymore. I am using Pages Version 5.5.2(2120). I did not recently update Pages and as far as I know the App Store didn't automatically update Pages.  I have tried restarting the iMac and my Laptop.
Based on other forums advice, I am in the process of uninstalling Pages, emptying the trash can (which seems to be a whole other issue since I started this process about 18 hours ago and the trash is still emptying), and was going to reinstall Pages after the trash empties.
Anything at this point will be helpful because I have papers that need grading. I cannot open doc or docx on neither my iMac or Macbook Pro.

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