Canvas Service Disruption, May 2026 - Current Guidance

As of Friday, May 8th:

  • Access to Canvas has been restored. Faculty and students can now use the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) as they have throughout the semester.
     
  • If a class was disrupted by the outage yesterday and faculty need additional support, please submit a ticket to LTS@uic.edu with a detailed description of the issue.

Where can I learn more? 

For more information, please refer to the official campus communications sent on May 7th: Canvas LMS service disruption and Canvas LMS service restored.

To learn more about the incident, visit Instructure Security Incident Update & FAQs.

Further updates will be provided at status.uic.edu as they become available, and major updates will be shared as an official campus communication. 

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