Is BrainPOP Down?

No — BrainPOP is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 877ms

Last checked 3 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.brainpop.com

BrainPOP uptime

100%

Last 7 days

100%

Last 30 days

100%

Last 90 days

708ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 23 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

23-day clean streak

Aug 23 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

ams

954ms

DNS 274ms TCP 2ms TLS 7ms TTFB 768ms

arn

987ms

DNS 279ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 878ms

bom

1604ms

DNS 203ms TCP 108ms TLS 113ms TTFB 1391ms

cdg

719ms

DNS 219ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 626ms

dfw

385ms

DNS 204ms TCP 0ms TLS 3ms TTFB 350ms

ewr

424ms

DNS 328ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 414ms

fra

955ms

DNS 245ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 863ms

gru

991ms

DNS 364ms TCP 112ms TLS 114ms TTFB 807ms

What BrainPOP does

BrainPOP makes short animated explainer videos with quizzes and activities for K-12 classrooms. Teachers assign topics across science, maths, social studies and English, and students watch a film then complete the follow-up quiz. Schools license it across a district and often build lesson time around it, so an interruption lands in the middle of a class period.

What an outage looks like

Videos fail to load or quizzes will not submit, and single sign-on from a school portal can fail while the site itself is reachable. BrainPOP reports its subject and language editions separately, so BrainPOP Jr., ELL, Science, Espanol or Francais can fail on their own. The iOS Apps component is separate again, so tablets can break while browsers keep working.

What to do about it

Check status.brainpop.com and look for the edition your class uses, since BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP ELL, BrainPOP Science, BrainPOP Espanol, BrainPOP Francais and iOS Apps are reported individually. If only iOS Apps is affected, move the lesson to a browser. If every row reads operational, check your district content filter and sign-on provider before assuming BrainPOP is at fault.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says BrainPOP is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 18 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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BrainPOP outage FAQ

BrainPOP works for me but not for my students. Is it down?

Probably not. A teacher account often reaches BrainPOP over a different path than student devices, so a district content filter, a blocked video host or a sign-on failure will hit students alone. Check status.brainpop.com first, then have a student try a different network. A real incident affects both teacher and student access together.

BrainPOP Jr. is broken but regular BrainPOP works. Is that expected?

Yes, that pattern is normal. BrainPOP lists BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP ELL, BrainPOP Science, BrainPOP Espanol and BrainPOP Francais as separate components, so an incident can affect one edition and leave the others untouched. Read the specific row rather than the headline before telling a class the whole service is unavailable.

The BrainPOP app fails but the website works. Why?

BrainPOP tracks iOS Apps as its own component, apart from the web editions, so app and browser access can diverge. When the app row is the only one affected, moving students to a browser is usually the fastest recovery. If both read operational, an app update or a device-level network restriction is the more likely cause.

Will quiz scores submitted during an outage be lost?

Treat anything submitted during a failure as unconfirmed until you can see it. If quizzes will not submit, the safest step is to have students stop rather than repeatedly retry, then check the gradebook once the affected component is marked resolved. Re-assigning a small number of quizzes costs less than sorting out duplicate or partial submissions later.

Where can I see BrainPOP's past incidents?

status.brainpop.com carries an incident history alongside the current component states, so you can see what was affected previously and how it was described. That record is more useful than a single day's reading when you are deciding whether a recurring classroom problem is BrainPOP or something inside your own network.

How we measure this

We request BrainPOP's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where BrainPOP publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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