Is Canvas Down? Learning Platform Used by Schools and Colleges Reportedly Not Working
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Digital classroom software Canvas has reportedly crashed, leaving regional school groups in the U.S. looking for answers.
DownDetector, a tool that tracks websites crashing, shows the crash appeared to happen just before 8:30 a.m. EDT. 15 minutes later there were over 6,000 reports of the site being down.
Montgomery County Public Schools said on Twitter: “We are aware that users are experiencing difficulty accessing Canvas. This is a regional issue with the platform and not unique to MCPS. We are working with the vendor to better understand the issue and a timeline for when the error will be fixed.”
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Social media was awash with comments from students affected by the site’s downtime. Many were hopeful the crash would effectively cause an early spring break for their schools.
One said: “Just cancel school and let us have an early spring break, it ain’t worth this much to try and fix it.”
Another wrote: “Can we have a ‘TechOut’ day to use up a snow day?”
Infrastructure, the company behind Canvas, claims the software has a 99.9 percent system uptime on its website.
This is a breaking news story. More information will be added as it becomes available.
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