Canvas Outage Affects UW Students and Staff
The University of Wisconsin's primary website for course information and assignments, Canvas, experienced a dysfunction on Monday morning and afternoon.
According to an ongoing Instructure status update, the outage began at 1:04 a.m. and was caused by an operational issue affecting multiple services at Amazon Web Services.
Students and faculty across campus were impacted by the outage throughout the day.
In other news, the University of Wisconsin Badgers faced a tough battle against the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes on Saturday, resulting in a 34-0 loss.
No official statement has been released regarding the outage.
Author's summary: Canvas was down for UW students and staff due to an Amazon Web Services issue.