My schools entire assignment system is out today.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I've been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren't even that important when there isn't a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey's pawed AWS into non existence.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought Canvas was self hosted? Or do they offer service instances too?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure there's a self hosted option but no way in hell it's as popular as it is without being a turnkey solution. Most smaller districts wouldn't touch anything self hosted with a 10 foot pole. They don't have the resources.

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