Commotion arose among Stan State students after Canvas, the online learning platform used for course assignments, temporarily shut down on October 20th. For at least half the day, a nationwide web outage disrupted multiple websites and services, leaving students and faculty unable to access key academic tools.
The Canvas outage started at 12:04 a.m. all the way to roughly 3:50 p.m. when services came back up. After services came back up there was still some issues for the Android System Webview (ASW) affecting android users.
Vanessa Valente, an Administrative Support Coordinator in the English department, shared how she was not personally affected but heard of the impact of the shut down.
“I’ve heard many students complain that they can’t get to their assignments, I’ve heard faculty express their disappointment. As if they’re stuck and they cannot do anything further with this system shut down,” Valente remarked.
Sebastian Pena (Senior, Psychology) described how the Canvas outage impacted his coursework…