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Canvas outage sparks concerns

Melanie Quinones, News Writer • October 28, 2025

The Wayne State College Service Center Team sent out an email early in the morning on Monday, Oct. 20, regarding the Canvas app outagedue to the huge AWS outage that affected many apps and websites. Some...

Canvas outage causes frustration on campus

Katherine Hutchison, Editor-In-Chief • October 21, 2025

Students and faculty logged on to the Canvas application early in the morning on Monday, Oct. 10, only to find that the entire app had shut down due to an AWS outage. According to the AWS website,...

New program replaces Sakai

Laynee Merrill, Staff Writer • September 4, 2019

By Spring 2020, Wayne State College students will say goodbye to Sakai and hello to Canvas. Edmund Elfers, WSC director of teaching and learning, said that WSC outgrew Sakai. In 2008 when the campus...

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