With Canvas software outage, Kansas schools discover how much they leaned on it

By: Eric Thomas

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: May 15, 2026

Words: 1,046

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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Maybe you heard the yelps echoing from the hallways of Kansas schools last week as a software outage essentially paused academic work. No quizzes. No assignments. No grading. No video tutorials.

And no sense of when it would end.

Canvas, a so-called learning management system, serves as the classroom spinal cord for thousands of schools nationwide, including many K-12 public school districts, Kansas State University and Pittsburg State University. When it fails, our schools …

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