Service status history
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - Plagiarism Detection
A 6-hour maintenance window is planned for Turnitin and iThenticate on October 25, 2025. This includes access through ICON as well as dedicated websites for Turnitin and iThenticate. Additional information will be available at https://turnitin.statuspage.io/incidents/8g1y6n437s2q. The following services will potentially experience intermittent availability during this time.
Originality (including all Integrations)
SimCheck (including Integrations)
Similarity (including Integrations)
Turnitin Core API (including Integrations)
Crossref Similarity Check
Authorship
Turnitin and TurnitinUK (including
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - SiteNow
SiteNow's hosting provider will be performing maintenance from 8am - 4pm on the dates affected. Some applications may experience a temporary interruption of service.
Maintenance reference #6660
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - Pressbooks
Pressbooks staff will be performing maintenance on our infrastructure to improve the performance and reliability of our systems and keep them up to date. During this time, we expect our Pressbooks network will be inaccessible when both reading and editing content.
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - Campus Data Network Connectivity
As part of the Campus Network Refresh Projects, we will be performing scheduled network maintenance on Tuesday, October 21 at 10:00 PM. During this time, our direct customer connection to South Slope users and one of our commodity internet connections will be migrated to a new router.
No impact to end-users is expected, and all systems should remain fully operational throughout the process.
[Closed] Service Degradation - Multiple Services - UI Telephony to Verizon Wireless Lines With Iowa City Prefix
Unified Communications has received a number of reports of University provided telephony lines unable to reach Verizon Wireless lines that specifically contain Iowa City prefixes (319-XXX-1234). The Unified Communications team is continuing to monitor and investigate the issue.
[Closed] Service Degradation - Large Scale Storage (LSS)
ITS Research Services is investigating issues with lc-rs-store32.hpc.uiowa.edu and lc-rs-store34.hpc.uiowa.edu being unavailable. All other LSS systems are working normally.
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - MatLab
ITS will be updating the following license server to support MATLAB Release 2025b: matlab-lm.iowa.uiowa.edu.
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - Linux Software Mirrors
Linux software mirrors will be down for maintenance during this period.
[Closed] Outage - Amazon Web Services Outage
Several university of Iowa services are currently being impacted by the Amazon Web Services outage. These services include:
- AWS Service Accounts
- ICON
- UICapture
- Qualtrics
- Turnitin
- Note Depot
- Course Activity Insights
- Elements of Success
- Wiki
- Smartsheets
- UI Learn
- Top Hat
- ICON Direct eTexts
- Pearson
- Cengage
- Wiley
- McGraw-Hill
- Adobe Cloud
Additional services are likely impacted and we'll update as we determine which ones.
[Closed] Planned Maintenance - Clickers
Top Hat and Aktiv will be temporarily unavailable.
The need for this proactive maintenance is to apply a critical security update to a core component of the Top Hat infrastructure. This component is widely used across the software industry, and Top Hat will be applying this update in response to a notification from their cloud provider, AWS.
Top Hat is scheduling this maintenance at a time that minimizes impact to faculty or students. Unfortunately, the urgent nature of this maintenance requires Top Hat to complete it prior to our normal maintenance window. No action is required on your