Panopto Maintenance – 3/22

Panopto will be unavailable on Sunday, March 22 from 12:30am-3:30am Eastern due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor. During this downtime, media content in Panopto and the “Class Recordings” or “Panopto Recordings” area of Canvas sites will be unavailable. 

Canvas and all other integrated tools will be available and unaffected by this maintenance.

Please direct any questions or concerns to canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Turnitin & Gradescope Maintenance – 3/7

On Saturday, March 7 from 11am-3pm Eastern:

  • Turnitin may be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor.
    • Only assignments using the Turnitin originality checking settings (“Plagiarism Review”)  will be affected.
    • To avoid issues, instructors are encouraged to set due dates for Turnitin assignments outside of the scheduled maintenance window.
    • Students are encouraged to submit Turnitin assignments in advance of affected due dates.
  • Some Gradescope features (Exporting submissions & submitting files for Code Similarity Reports) will be unavailable. All other components of Gradescope will be operational.

Canvas and all other integrated tools will be available and unaffected by this maintenance.

Please direct any questions or concerns to canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Resolved – Zoom Bug for Automatic Meeting Recording

The issue with automatic Zoom meeting recording through the Canvas integration has been resolved by the vendor. Zoom meetings created through the Canvas integration and set to auto-record to the cloud should now automatically record as expected.

If you encounter any ongoing issues with automatic Zoom recording through the Canvas integration, please email canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Turnitin & Gradescope Maintenance – 2/7

On Saturday, February 7 from 11am-5pm Eastern:

  • Turnitin will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor.
    • Only assignments using the Turnitin originality checking settings (“Plagiarism Review”)  will be affected.
    • To avoid issues, instructors are encouraged to set due dates for Turnitin assignments outside of the scheduled maintenance window.
    • Students are encouraged to submit Turnitin assignments in advance of affected due dates.
  • Some Gradescope features (Exporting Submissions & Code Similarity Reports) will be unavailable. All other components of Gradescope will be operational.

Canvas and all other integrated tools will be available and unaffected by this maintenance.

Please direct any questions or concerns to canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Zoom Bug for Automatic Meeting Recording

When a series of Zoom meetings is created through the Canvas integration and set to auto-record to the cloud, that setting gets turned off if a user with a non-student role clicks the Zoom tab. This issue has been reported to the vendor and they are working to resolve it as soon as possible. We recommend that instructors verify that Zoom meetings are recording once they start.

If you have any questions, please email canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Outage – Canvas, Gradescope, Turnitin, PollEverywhere Down (10/20/25)

UPDATE 11:37 AM ET

Gradescope, iThenticate, Turnitin, and PollEverywhere are now working. Canvas is still experiencing an outage.

While Canvas is inaccessible, you can access these tools directly at Gradescope.com, iThenticate.com, Turnitin.com, and Polleverywhere.com.

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10:00 AM ET

Unfortunately, several of our tools (including Canvas) are currently impacted by an ongoing Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage this morning. 

You may be unable to login or encounter significant performance issues for Canvas, Gradescope, Poll Everywhere, and Turnitin until this is fixed by Amazon. You can follow the progress below for specific tools, and we will update you once we hear that service has been restored.

If you have any questions, please email canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.