Update, 5:15 p.m.: After about an hour of downtime, Canvas looks like it’s back up and running.

Instructure’s online portal confirmed a “fix” had been implemented, and its development team would monitor the results.

Original Story: Penn State students were in for a rude awakening Wednesday afternoon when Canvas, the university’s go-to digital learning platform, suffered a widespread outage just before 4:30 p.m.

At the time of writing, Canvas servers are experiencing a “major outage” that prevents users from even logging in. Many students reporting receiving a “504 Gateway Timeout” error when trying to fire Canvas up from home.

Instructure, Inc., the Salt Lake City-based educational tech firm that develops and publishes Canvas, said it’s currently investigating the outage. Users at home can check Canvas’ status using Instructure’s online webpage.

“Our DevOps team is continuing to investigate the cause of these page errors,” Instructure said at 4:50 p.m. “We apologize that we don’t have a narrower scope of the issue at this time, and appreciate your patience.”

Penn State did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Canvas’ outage Wednesday afternoon.

Although online learning came to a grinding halt, students across the country still vented their frustrations using social media.

https://twitter.com/regardingthewar/status/1367230214460301312

it was easy to cheat for my math midterm BUT NOW ITS NOT if canvas doesn’t work so pls work now.

— alyssa (@alyssawacck) March 3, 2021

canvas is down? damn I was just about to do some work too pic.twitter.com/0GSG0ke4iq

— David (@dmendo214) March 3, 2021

https://twitter.com/emiliaqsanchez/status/1367230162354331650

me trying to take my exam while canvas is down pic.twitter.com/Jokm8Y8XEB

— yoongi’s military wife (@lavenderfeeIs) March 3, 2021

https://twitter.com/KingFrogzii/status/1367230112547041280

bruh i swear if i failed my classes i'm gonna sue yall ong

— xxinactivexx (@HitenKei1) March 3, 2021

I've got an exam due at 5 and canvas is down rn pic.twitter.com/6SypmcO1Dc

— Yeezy (@YeezyCXV) March 3, 2021

Not canvas going down and I’m doing a test due at 2:15!!! pic.twitter.com/VWWIpce4nl

— T (@torosdior) March 3, 2021

We’ll update this post with more information as it becomes available.