Canvas is a learning management system hosted by Instructure. Canvas's status can viewed online at https://status.instructure.com/.

Some applications within the system are maintained by other vendors, such as Turnitin, a plagiarism detection tool, and Panopto, an enterprise video capture and management service.

Some tools are created here by Northwestern developers. Scheduled server maintenance will affect the Northwestern applications. Please plan your work according to the schedule listed below.

Northwestern Tools Maintenance Schedule

Standard, scheduled server maintenance will occur on the third Friday of every month (not to coincide with grading periods or other important Canvas freeze dates). Most maintenance windows will result in a short, 15-minute outage. All times are in Central Time.

Course Tools

Nebula (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
Noterra (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
Discussion Analytics (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
Canvas Chatbot (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
GradeSync (7:30-7:45 a.m.)

Administrator Tools

NU User Enrollment (7:15-7:45 a.m.)
NU User Creation (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
NU Course Creation (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
NU Prep Site Creation (7:30-7:45 a.m.)
NU Course Combine (7:30-7:45 a.m.)

Dates:

1/17/20
2/21/20
4/17/20
5/15/20
6/19/20
7/17/20
8/21/20
9/18/20
10/16/20
11/20/20
12/18/20