PHILADELPHIA - Many college and K-12 students were unable to access assignments or course materials Monday morning as the learning management platform Canvas reported widespread connectivity issues caused by an Amazon Web Services outage.

What we know:

Canvas , owned by Instructure, confirmed the issue on its status page, citing "an ongoing AWS incident" as the cause of the disruption.

A message displayed to users shows an animated image of a damaged rocket with a note reading:

"Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident. We are working on recovering as soon as possible."

The outage began around 10 a.m. ET and has affected students and educators attempting to log in to Canvas dashboards or submit assignments.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) — which hosts much of Canva

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