It’s wild. My professor wife (and the rest of the faculty) got a message that it was down and to basically just figure out how to finish without it. Then it came back up, and the Provost told...
It’s wild. My professor wife (and the rest of the faculty) got a message that it was down and to basically just figure out how to finish without it. Then it came back up, and the Provost told everyone to go export the grades real quick in case it goes back down. A nice extra stressor with ? additional consequences to add to finals week.
Just learned about this from a Youtube short of all things. The timing is definitely bad for students with finals. Along with submitting projects, I'm pretty sure one of my classes actually had...
Just learned about this from a Youtube short of all things. The timing is definitely bad for students with finals.
Along with submitting projects, I'm pretty sure one of my classes actually had its final exam on Canvas. It was a super laidback summer course and was a 101-level class (Intro to New Media or something like that), so the atmosphere was incredibly casual given the subject matter and being summertime. We had the option to go to the final class session to do it there, or just do it at home. Not sure how many other courses would do that during the regular year, but I wouldn't be surprised if some similarly low-level classes would also use Canvas.
(One fun thing about doing the final exam on Canvas: the first guy to finish the exam piped up, "Uh... It's showing me the correct answers." We all turned to the teacher, who just shrugged and said "Go for it." Only reason everyone didn't get 100 is because we had to go back to earlier questions while he was still reading answers, so some people missed an already wrong answer. Good times.)
A question for people who are more familiar with Canvas and its workings: how much of students' personal information is stored in Canvas and Instructure? Obviously it has their names, but would it have things like financial info? I'm pretty sure my school had a separate hub for that stuff, but it's been years and my parents handled the financial stuff anyway so my memory's fuzzy. And even then, some of that data may just be hidden in the back end away from students' eyes.
I know nothing about Canvas but I saw this comment on r/sysadmin on the topic of student information https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1t6mfiz/canvas_hack/okjnp0r/ Edit: another one...
I know nothing about Canvas but I saw this comment on r/sysadmin on the topic of student information
Selling exam keys, if they even have that, is not a financial win. This is all about the disruption and the insurance ransom payout from Canvas itself by fucking over its customers. Good to know...
Selling exam keys, if they even have that, is not a financial win. This is all about the disruption and the insurance ransom payout from Canvas itself by fucking over its customers.
Good to know that they don't have much info though. We use SSO thankfully.
Oof this is a big mess. Truly feel for both students and staff that have to deal with this at the end of the semester. I transferred universities during my undergrad so I experienced one...
Oof this is a big mess. Truly feel for both students and staff that have to deal with this at the end of the semester. I transferred universities during my undergrad so I experienced one university who was all in on it and one who only transitioned to the system after I graduated. It's easy to see why Canvas took over, you can truly run everything on there. You can have your lecture materials, assignments, quizzes, midterms, and even finals with special provision to use a "lockdown browser" to prevent cheating.
Oh boy is this a fucking mess...
I don't even know what the ripple effect will be.
It’s wild. My professor wife (and the rest of the faculty) got a message that it was down and to basically just figure out how to finish without it. Then it came back up, and the Provost told everyone to go export the grades real quick in case it goes back down. A nice extra stressor with ? additional consequences to add to finals week.
Just learned about this from a Youtube short of all things. The timing is definitely bad for students with finals.
Along with submitting projects, I'm pretty sure one of my classes actually had its final exam on Canvas. It was a super laidback summer course and was a 101-level class (Intro to New Media or something like that), so the atmosphere was incredibly casual given the subject matter and being summertime. We had the option to go to the final class session to do it there, or just do it at home. Not sure how many other courses would do that during the regular year, but I wouldn't be surprised if some similarly low-level classes would also use Canvas.
(One fun thing about doing the final exam on Canvas: the first guy to finish the exam piped up, "Uh... It's showing me the correct answers." We all turned to the teacher, who just shrugged and said "Go for it." Only reason everyone didn't get 100 is because we had to go back to earlier questions while he was still reading answers, so some people missed an already wrong answer. Good times.)
A question for people who are more familiar with Canvas and its workings: how much of students' personal information is stored in Canvas and Instructure? Obviously it has their names, but would it have things like financial info? I'm pretty sure my school had a separate hub for that stuff, but it's been years and my parents handled the financial stuff anyway so my memory's fuzzy. And even then, some of that data may just be hidden in the back end away from students' eyes.
I know nothing about Canvas but I saw this comment on r/sysadmin on the topic of student information
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1t6mfiz/canvas_hack/okjnp0r/
Edit: another one https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1t6mfiz/canvas_hack/okjgl8r/
Selling exam keys, if they even have that, is not a financial win. This is all about the disruption and the insurance ransom payout from Canvas itself by fucking over its customers.
Good to know that they don't have much info though. We use SSO thankfully.
Oof this is a big mess. Truly feel for both students and staff that have to deal with this at the end of the semester. I transferred universities during my undergrad so I experienced one university who was all in on it and one who only transitioned to the system after I graduated. It's easy to see why Canvas took over, you can truly run everything on there. You can have your lecture materials, assignments, quizzes, midterms, and even finals with special provision to use a "lockdown browser" to prevent cheating.