UC Davis Canvas Now Available – Sat., 5/9

May 09, 2026

Posted at 10:02 p.m., Saturday, May 9, 2026

UC Davis Canvas is once again available. Our technology teams completed additional security reviews after Canvas was brought back online.

Some features will not be available immediately, as they were disabled to protect the security of Canvas and your data during this incident, and will take additional time to restore.

Check the status of your learning tools/integrations on the Canvas Learning Tools Update page (must be logged in to UC Davis Google Workspace). Updates will be posted as tools are re-enabled.

Canvas guest accounts and personal access tokens (PATs) have been disabled.

To request or restore temporary access to Canvas, the instructor of record should register their guest(s) as temporary affiliates with UC Davis. Current Canvas guest account holders will be notified separately.
Instructors may request a new time-limited personal access token using this request form.

Support is available via:

Your unit IT support, if applicable.
IT Express for UC Davis campus at [email protected] or 530-754-HELP (4357), Monday through Friday, 7 AM – 6 PM.
Technology Operations Center for UC Davis Health at 916-734-HELP (4357), 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Posted at 7:06 p.m., Friday, May 8, 2026

Canvas at UC Davis remained unavailable today, Friday, May 8, 2026.

The UC Office of the President is working with each campus to make risk-based decisions about when to restore access to Canvas. Given that UC Berkeley and UC Merced’s instances of Canvas are accessible again, we are cautiously optimistic that we will be back online soon.

In the interim, helpful resources for instructors can be found on the Alternative Instructional Tools Canvas Outage website.

Read UC Davis' official statement.

Posted at 9:19 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2026

Starting at approximately 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2026, Canvas, UC Davis’ primary learning management system, became unavailable following a global cybersecurity incident affecting its vendor, Instructure. As of 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, Canvas remains unavailable. This is a vendor-driven cybersecurity incident affecting multiple institutions globally.

Read UC Davis' official statement.

Posted at 2:05 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2026

Information and Educational Technology (IET) is aware and investigating reports of login issues with Canvas. Students and instructors are reporting they cannot log in to the platform. More information will be posted as soon as it is available.

Posted at 5:16 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, 2026

On Wednesday, May 6, 2026, the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) released a statement on the Nationwide Security Breach Involving Canvas. Updates with the UC community will continue to be shared on UCnet as new information emerges.

Posted at 2:10 p.m., Tuesday, May 5, 2026

On Friday, May 1, 2026, Instructure, the vendor behind Canvas, reported a global cybersecurity incident. At this time, UC Davis has not been notified of any direct impact to our campus. UC Davis Canvas remains available and operational.

We are actively monitoring vendor updates and assessing any potential impact to UC Davis services. Updates will be posted as they become available.

More information is available from the Instructure Incident Report page.