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Is Coursera Down?

No — Coursera is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 710ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.coursera.org

Coursera uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
821ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 76 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

76-day clean streak
Sep 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 15: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 16: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 17: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 18: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 19: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 20: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 21: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 22: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 23: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 24: 100.00% uptime, 39 checks
Sep 25: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 26: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 27: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Sep 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 29: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Sep 30: 100.00% uptime, 28 checks
Oct 1: 100.00% uptime, 30 checks
Oct 2: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 3: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 4: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 6: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 7: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 8: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 11: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 12: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 14 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
454ms
DNS 82ms TCP 2ms TLS 5ms TTFB 370ms
arn
592ms
DNS 62ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 393ms
cdg
513ms
DNS 84ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 428ms
dfw
466ms
DNS 95ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 380ms
ewr
1133ms
DNS 150ms TCP 2ms TLS 4ms TTFB 1086ms
fra
1237ms
DNS 187ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 1059ms
gru
805ms
DNS 267ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 578ms
yyz
487ms
DNS 132ms TCP 9ms TLS 10ms TTFB 423ms

What Coursera does

Coursera hosts online courses, professional certificates and full degrees from universities and companies, studied at the learner's own pace. Video lectures, graded assignments and peer review all run inside the platform, and employers and universities route staff and students to it in cohorts, so an outage tends to interrupt a group working towards a shared deadline rather than one person browsing.

What an outage looks like

Lecture videos buffer without ever starting or fail with a playback error while the page around them loads normally. Quiz and assignment submissions return an error at the point of saving, course pages show an empty curriculum, and progress markers can appear reset. Logins loop back to the sign-in screen. The mobile app usually keeps playing already-downloaded lectures while anything new fails.

What to do about it

Check status.coursera.org, but read it narrowly: it tracks Integrations and the LTI Tool, not the learner-facing site, so a site outage can leave it reporting all systems operational. If a graded submission failed, avoid resubmitting repeatedly, because duplicate attempts can eat a limited allowance. Deadlines are set by the institution or partner running the course, so ask them for an extension.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Coursera 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 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Coursera outage FAQ

Is Coursera down for everyone or just me?
Load a course page in a private window first, because a stale session is the most common cause of a Coursera page that fails for one person alone. If it fails there too, the platform or the network between you and it is the problem. Coursera's own status page covers only integrations, so a multi-region measurement is a better test of whether the site itself is reachable.
Will I lose my answers if Coursera goes down mid-quiz?
Answers you have not submitted live in the browser and are lost if the page is reloaded, so leave the tab open and wait rather than refreshing. Work that reached Coursera before the failure is saved and reappears when the platform recovers. Where an assessment allows a limited number of attempts, a failed submission can still consume one, so raise it with the course staff rather than retrying.
Does a Coursera outage extend my deadline?
Not automatically. Deadlines belong to the university, company or partner running the course, and Coursera does not move them on their behalf. Note the start and end time of the outage while it is happening, because that is the evidence the course staff will ask for. Personal deadlines on self-paced courses can usually be shifted from the course settings without anyone's involvement.
Does the Coursera app work when the website is down?
Partly. Lectures downloaded for offline viewing keep playing, because they are stored on the device, and that often makes the app look healthy while the site is not. Anything needing the platform still fails: new downloads, quiz submissions, discussion posts and progress syncing. Progress recorded offline uploads once the connection is restored, so watching a downloaded lecture during an outage is not wasted.
Why does Coursera's status page say everything is operational?
Because it monitors a narrow slice of the platform. The page lists Integrations and the LTI Tool, which matter to universities wiring Coursera into their own systems, and not the learner-facing website, video delivery or assignment submission. An outage affecting learners can therefore leave the page green. Treat it as authoritative for integrations and use an external measurement for the site.

How we measure this

  • We request Coursera'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 Coursera 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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