Commentary - Canvas Hack Exposes Cybersecurity Flaws Across California’s Universities

Commentary - Canvas hack exposes cybersecurity flaws across California’s universities

Commentary - Canvas hack exposes cybersecurity flaws across California’s universities mps-post Fri, 05/15/2026 - 09:18 Image (CalMatters) The last message I expected to receive Thursday afternoon was a request by a student to postpone an assignment because of a cyberattack. Canvas, the tool where millions of students around the world submit their work, check their grades, watch lectures and take quizzes was inaccessible to faculty and students…

What the Canvas hack tells us about higher education software

Instructure is managing a very different proposition than most software vendors do. It has positioned itself as an education partner managing a wide range of integrations with education software tools. This post What the Canvas hack tells us about higher education software appeared first on Tech News TT.

California colleges went big on online learning tools. Then the worst happened

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Esther Mejia and Kelly Merchant had a question Friday afternoon for their professors: Where were you?The UC Riverside public policy students were among the likely hundreds of thousands in California who lost access to the all-important academic software Canvas when it was brought down by a hacker group the day before. Losing Canvas meant losing assignments, tests, …