A widely used education software appeared to be inaccessible for schools across the country Thursday evening amid an apparent cyberattack.
A cyberattack on the Canvas learning management system was reported by its parent company, Instructure, last week, and while its status page listed the issue as resolved as of Wednesday, Canvas was placed in maintenance mode as of Wednesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Canvas was no longer accessible at schools across the country, including in Massachusetts — sites for Harvard and MIT were down, while Boston College posted a tech alert noting “a widespread outage” for Canvas that Instructure was working to resolve.
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