Is Canvas Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 73ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://status.instructure.com
Canvas uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 22 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
12-day clean streakReachability 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.
What Canvas does
Canvas is the learning management system built by Instructure and used by schools, colleges and universities to run their courses online. Students submit assignments, sit quizzes and check grades in it, while instructors post materials and mark work. Most institutions run Canvas on their own subdomain, so it sits between an entire campus and its coursework.
What an outage looks like
Course pages usually still load while one specific piece fails: New Quizzes will not open, DocViewer leaves a submitted file spinning, or an action returns an unexpected error message. Instructure has also logged sign-ins failing on Android while the web worked normally, and rostering and grade sync running hours behind. Slowness is often regional, so classmates elsewhere may see nothing wrong at all.
What to do about it
Check status.instructure.com first, then follow its per-instance uptime link: your school's Canvas can fail while the global page shows every component green. Instructure tracks Canvas separately from its SIS Platform, so missing grades and rosters usually appear there as a sync delay rather than as a Canvas outage. Take a stuck submission to your institution's help desk, which administers the instance.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says Canvas is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.
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Canvas outage FAQ
Is Canvas down for everyone or just my school?
Why have my grades not appeared when Canvas itself is working?
Does the Canvas mobile app work when the website is down?
Can I still submit an assignment during a Canvas outage?
How we measure this
- We request Canvas's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means 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 Canvas 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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