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There is no charge for use of this service.

ICON, powered by Canvas (Instructure), is the University of Iowa's Learning Management System. All Registrar affiliated courses are created within the LMS and are available for instructors to use if they wish.

Support articles, how-tos, frequently asked questions, etc. are available at the Office for Teaching, Learning and Technology's ICON page.

Current Status

There are currently no alerts.

Maintenance

Services scheduled for maintenance over the next 7 days. Please refer to the calendar view of alerts for a complete schedule.
Start: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:15am
Description

There will be a brief maintenance event on our ICON instance during an upcoming maintenance window. Interruption is only expected to last up to five minutes during the event, but the full duration of the window may be utilized if needed.

Services
Last updated: 
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 8:31am

Past 90 Days

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Alert History

Start: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 10:15am
End: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:00am
Updates
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:00am

The issue has been resolved.

Description

There are issues logging into services such as ICON, Wiki, Employee Self-Service, Clarity Connect (call center phone systems across campus), Virtual Desktop, MAUI, MyUI, Duo two-step login, Zoom, Cherwell, and eduroam. ITS staff are investigating.

Last updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:10am
Start: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 12:00pm
End: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 1:45pm
Updates
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 1:45pm

This issue is resolved. 

Description

ICON (https://icon.uiowa.edu) is having a certificate issue on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. The website works with Microsoft Edge. You can also use the URL https://uiowa.instructure.com from any browser to get to ICON.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 1:40pm
Start: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 2:45pm
End: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 5:00pm
Updates
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 8:00am

The issue is resolved. 

Description

The us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region in Amazon Web Services is currently experiencing an outage that is affecting multiple services, including Top Hat and ICON.

  • Top Hat: The top menu is loading with an error. While users are still able to access, edit, and present their course content, it is unclear if data from Attendance, etc., is being captured.
  • ICON: Multiple features including New Quizzes, Blueprint Course Copies and images in the rich content editor are currently impacted.

Support staff are investigating.

Last updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 8:02am
Start: 
Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 5:30am
End: 
Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 6:00am
Description

 

ICON login is down for all users when signing into https://icon.uiowa.edu. ICON can be accessed on the Canvas application during this outage.

 

Services
Last updated: 
Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 8:26pm
Start: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 2:00pm
End: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 2:45pm
Updates
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 2:45pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

The ICON dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu) is displaying an error message to users.

Users can access their ICON courses by clicking on the Canvas Home tab at the top of the site, or by going directly to https://uiowa.instructure.com/ .

ITS staff are working on a fix.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 2:39pm
Start: 
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 11:15am
End: 
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 11:45am
Updates
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 11:45am

This issue has been resolved.

Description

Users are experiencing issues accessing courses in ICON. This issue is affecting enrolled students and course instructors. ITS is aware of the issue and is currently investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 11:45am
Start: 
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 4:15am
Description

Canvas will be conducting maintenance on ICON.

During the maintenance window, users may not be able to access ICON.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 4:15am
Start: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 11:00am
End: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 11:30am
Description

Canvas will be performing maintenance on the Attendance (Roll Call) tool in ICON.

Interruption is expected to last up to 5 minutes. Users may not be able to access the Attendance (Roll Call) tool during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 11:30am
Start: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 8:30am
End: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 2:15pm
Updates
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 2:15pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

Canvas SCORM content is experiencing security certificate block issues. Support staff are working with Canvas Support to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 2:23pm
Start: 
Monday, January 30, 2023 - 10:00am
End: 
Monday, January 30, 2023 - 11:00am
Description

The UDOIT Service in ICON will be unavailable due to an upgrade. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2023 - 11:00am
Start: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 12:00pm
End: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 2:00pm
Updates
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 2:00pm

This issue is resolved.

Description

Users are experiencing issues submitting files and assignments, or saving changes to ICON courses. Canvas is aware of the issue and is currently investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 1:57pm
Start: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 11:15am
End: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 11:30am
Updates
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 11:45am

The issue has been resolved. Users may need to logout or clear the cache/cookies from their web browsers.

Monday, January 23, 2023 - 11:30am

The service has returned. Users may need to logout or clear the cache/cookies from their web browser.

Description

Users are experiencing slow load times and errors when accessing ICON. ITS staff are investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 11:40am
Start: 
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 3:30pm
End: 
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 9:15am
Updates
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 9:15am

This issue has been resolved. 

Description

Some services that are integrated into ICON are producing an error when they are accessed using the current version of Firefox in a specific configuration that blocks tracking between websites.

There are two options that will allow the services to work properly:

  1. Use another browser to access ICON (Chrome, Edge, etc.)
  2. Turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection for uiowa.instructure.com (how to)

Integrations that are known to have problems with Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on:

  • Zoom (when starting a meeting from the "Zoom" navigation bar tool in ICON)
    • Using the Meeting ID or with another link direct to Zoom will allow you to join the meeting.
Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 9:20am
Start: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - 11:00am
End: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - 12:15pm
Updates
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - 12:15pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

Due to a hardware failure the campus is currently experiencing network connectivity issues, both wired and wireless, in some areas. Some users are not able to connect to VPN or login to ICON. Work is underway to identify the scope of issues and resolve them.

Last updated: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - 12:13pm
Start: 
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 8:00am
End: 
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 4:30pm
Updates
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 4:30pm

The maintenance has been completed.

Description

Unplanned maintenance on the Beta instance (https://uiowa.beta.instructure.com/) of Canvas is being performed by the vendor. No impact is expected for the main ICON/Canvas site (https://uiowa.instructure.com).

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 4:29pm
Start: 
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 5:45pm
End: 
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 6:15pm
Updates
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 6:15pm

The issue has been resolved.

Friday, September 30, 2022 - 6:00pm

The vendor has corrected the cause of the issue and is monitoring the service status.

Description

Users are experiencing slow load times and errors when accessing ICON. Status updates are available at https://status.instructure.com/.

Services
Last updated: 
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 6:20pm
Start: 
Monday, September 26, 2022 - 10:15am
End: 
Monday, September 26, 2022 - 10:45am
Updates
Monday, September 26, 2022 - 10:45am

This issue should now be resolved. Users still experiencing issues are recommended to try signing in to Canvas directly (https://uiowa.instructure.com), log out and back in to the ICON dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu), or try clearing the browser's cache/cookies.

Description

Users are experiencing slow load times and errors when accessing ICON. Status updates are available at https://status.instructure.com/.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, September 26, 2022 - 10:55am
Start: 
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 1:15pm
End: 
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 2:00pm
Updates
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 2:00pm

This issue has been resolved. 

Description

Users may experience slow load times and error messages when in ICON. ITS support staff are investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 1:54pm
Start: 
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 8:30am
End: 
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 9:00am
Updates
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 9:00am

The issue has been resolved.

Description

The UDOIT tool within ICON is currently down.  We are working on identifying the problem and will have more information soon.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 9:04am
Start: 
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 6:00am
End: 
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 6:30am
Description

ICON (icon.uiowa.edu) will be unavailable briefly during the maintenance window, Canvas (uiowa.instructure.com) will be unaffected. This work is necessary to fix ICONSQLPROD database issues.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 6:30am
Start: 
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 1:30pm
End: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 8:45am
Updates
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 8:45am

The Office 365 issue has been resolved.

For users using Google Drive, Canvas disabled the ability to submit assignments directly from a user's Google Drive. The workaround is to download the Google doc and upload it to the assignment from your device.

Description

ICON is experiencing connection issues with the Google Drive and Office 365 apps.  The vendor is aware of these issues and is working on a fix.  Users can still access Office 365 outside of ICON without issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 8:49am
Start: 
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 9:45am
End: 
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 10:30am
Updates
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 10:30am

The issue has been resolved.

Description

The learning analytics platform Elements of Success (EoS) is unavailable in ICON. ITS staff are working on restoring this service. 

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 10:24am
Start: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:00am
End: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 10:00am
Updates
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 10:00am

This issue is resolved.

Description

The UDOIT tool in ICON is temporarily unavailable. ITS is looking into the issue and working toward a resolution.

Services
Last updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 10:04am
Start: 
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 1:00pm
End: 
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 1:30pm
Updates
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 1:30pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

Users may not see courses on their ICON dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu). Instead, users should access the Canvas dashboard directly through https://uiowa.instructure.com/.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 1:33pm
Start: 
Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 12:00am
End: 
Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 2:30am
Description

ICON will be down for planned database maintenance to apply an update that fixes several data corruption bugs.  Users will not be able to access ICON for up to one minute during this time.
 

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 2:30am
Start: 
Friday, December 10, 2021 - 11:00am
End: 
Monday, December 13, 2021 - 7:30am
Updates
Monday, December 13, 2021 - 7:30am

This issue is resolved. 

Description

Users accessing ICON via Chrome version 96 in Windows 10/11 are reporting issues with content pages showing blank screens or showing only the content navigation buttons on ICON course pages. More information and updates can be found on the Canvas support site.

As a temporary workaround, Canvas recommends using a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox. Canvas has also suggested that clearing Chrome cache and cookies could help but is not always working permanently.

ITS is continuing to monitor this situation.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, December 13, 2021 - 7:26am
Start: 
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 12:00pm
End: 
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 - 7:00am
Updates
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 - 7:45am

Amazon Web Services are restored and these issues are resolved. 

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a major outage in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. (https://its.uiowa.edu/alert/123491) As a result, some university services that utilize resources in AWS could be experiencing issues with performance and availability.

ICON/Canvas (https://uiowa.instructure.com/) is currently seeing intermittent slowness and errors.

UICapture (https://uicapture.hosted.panopto.com/) is currently seeing extended processing times for new uploads. Regular upload speeds, session management, and playback should be available. New videos produced with the Zoom Cloud Recording function may also be delayed at this time.

Top Hat (https://app.tophat.com/) is currently experiencing performance or availability issues.

Portfolium (https://teach.uiowa.edu/portfolium) is currently seeing intermittent slowness and errors.

Kaltura (https://mediaspace.uiowa.edu/ and in ICON) there could be intermittent errors and videos might be slow to load.

We will continue to update this alert as problems are identified and resolved.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 - 7:41am
Start: 
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 12:45pm
End: 
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 1:45pm
Description

Users may encounter page errors when logging into ICON. These errors may come up when loading courses in Canvas (https://uiowa.instructure.com/) as well as problems in displaying courses in the ICON Dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu/).

This degradation is occurring due to a problem with the hosting partner that powers Canvas. Updates from this event can be found here: https://status.instructure.com/incidents/g1zp3jpycgbz

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 1:56pm
Start: 
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 1:00am
End: 
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 3:00am
Description

Canvas will be performing brief database maintenance for Roll Call Attendance in Canvas.

Roll Call Attendance will be unavailable for up to 2 Hours while this maintenance is underway.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 3:00am
Start: 
Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 4:15am
Description

ICON will be utilizing the next maintenance window to configure the database for more proactive issue detection from 2:05am to 4:05am. Users will not be able to access ICON for about one minute while the event is underway.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 4:15am
Start: 
Monday, August 23, 2021 - 9:00am
End: 
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - 9:00am
Updates
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - 9:00am

This issue is resolved. 

Description

BryteWave (RedShelf) in ICON is experiencing problems loading, the vendor is working on implementing a fix. Visit https://status.redshelf.com/incidents/g83nsbb076ff for details. 

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - 8:56am
Start: 
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - 11:00am
End: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 11:15am
Description

The ICON Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) will be upgraded for feature improvements during this maintenance window.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 11:15am
Start: 
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 3:30pm
End: 
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 4:15pm
Updates
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 4:15pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

Users may encounter page errors when logging into ICON. ITS staff are investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 4:11pm
Start: 
Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 4:30am
Description

Canvas will be performing brief maintenance on ICON. Users will not be able to access ICON for about two minutes while the event is underway.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 4:30am
Start: 
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 6:00am
End: 
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 7:45pm
Description

Starting May 20, ICON will show preferred pronouns for students, faculty, and staff who’ve set public pronouns using the MyUI or Employee Self Service systems.

Pronouns will appear alongside users’ names in several ICON locations, including comment fields, discussions, people pages, and profile pages. See the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology site for more info about the change.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 7:45pm
Start: 
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 2:00am
End: 
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 2:15am
Description

Canvas (ICON) will be updating their database management system on the back-end to address a bug they've found that could otherwise result in long periods of downtime in Canvas. This update is a proactive measure to reduce chances of an outage in the system.

This event will last up to 60 minutes. We expect approximately 10 minutes of impact to your availability during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 2:15am
Start: 
Saturday, May 8, 2021 - 12:30am
End: 
Saturday, May 8, 2021 - 12:45am
Updates
Saturday, May 8, 2021 - 12:45am

This issue has been resolved

Description

Login for MyUI, ICON, and Employee Self Service are currently down. ITS staff are looking into this.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, May 8, 2021 - 12:43am
Start: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 7:00am
End: 
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 7:30am
Description

Access to the MAUI in ICON tool within ICON courses may be unavailable. Users may need to log in again after maintenance is complete.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 7:30am
Start: 
Saturday, April 24, 2021 - 12:15am
End: 
Saturday, April 24, 2021 - 1:15am
Updates
Saturday, April 24, 2021 - 1:15am

The issue has been resolved.

Description

Login for ICON, Employee Self Service, and MyUI are down.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, April 24, 2021 - 1:11am
Start: 
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 1:45pm
End: 
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 2:15pm
Updates
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 2:15pm

This has been resolved.

Description

ICON is down. ITS staff are investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 2:16pm
Start: 
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 12:30pm
End: 
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 12:45pm
Updates
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 12:45pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

ICON is down. ITS Support Staff are investigating.

Services
Last updated: 
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 12:51pm
Start: 
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 7:45am
End: 
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 9:15am
Updates
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 9:15am

This issue is resolved. 

Description

ICON is down. Support staff are investigating. 

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 9:17am
Start: 
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 3:15pm
End: 
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:15pm
Updates
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:15pm

This issue has been resolved.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 3:45pm

Additional updates on this issue can be found on the Canvas status page: https://status.instructure.com/

Description

ICON (uiowa.instructure.com) is currently down. ITS Staff are working on getting this fixed as soon as possible.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:14pm
Start: 
Friday, December 4, 2020 - 9:45am
End: 
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 12:00pm
Description

The Turnitin LTI External Tool is experiencing issues syncing with SpeedGrader in ICON. Similarity scores and reports are not currently visible in SpeedGrader but are still visible through the LTI External Tool Assignment Inbox in ICON.

Turnitin and Canvas Support are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. This notice will be updated once we have more information.

Last updated: 
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 12:53pm
Start: 
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 11:00am
End: 
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 1:00pm
Updates
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 1:00pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

Users are receiving a "Failed to Log In" error message when accessing ICON (Canvas). ITS is investigating. 

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 1:02pm
Start: 
Monday, August 24, 2020 - 11:00pm
End: 
Monday, August 24, 2020 - 11:30pm
Description

ICON (Canvas) will be down for maintenance to address performance issues. 

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, August 24, 2020 - 11:30pm
Start: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 3:30am
End: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 4:00am
Description

Instructure (Canvas) will be performing maintenance on ICON. Users will not be able to access ICON during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 4:00am
Start: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 3:30am
End: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 4:00am
Description

Canvas will be performing a maintenance event. Users will not be able to access Canvas (https://uiowa.instructure.com) during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 4:00am
Start: 
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 1:45pm
End: 
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 2:15pm
Updates
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 2:15pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

ICON login is down. Users that are logged in to ICON are still able to use it. Support staff are working to resolve this issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 2:10pm
Start: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 3:15pm
End: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 3:45pm
Updates
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 3:45pm

This issue has been resolved by ITS staff.

Description

The MAUI in ICON integration is offline, ITS staff are working to bring this back up. 

Instructors can still enter grades in MAUI by following steps on https://teach.uiowa.edu/ICON/FAQ/grades#maui_csv to export grades from ICON to a CSV file and upload them to MAUI, or by manually entering grades in MAUI.

 

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 3:42pm
Start: 
Monday, May 11, 2020 - 4:45pm
End: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 7:45am
Updates
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 7:45am

The issue is resolved.

Description

ICON (Canvas) is experiencing long job processing times. This includes notifications from courses, blueprint course syncs, course content imports/exports and SIS imports. Further information on this issue can be found at this Canvas status website. https://status.instructure.com/

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 7:55am
Start: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 2:30am
End: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 3:00am
Description

Users may have limited access to ICON (Canvas) during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 3:00am
Start: 
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 3:15pm
End: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 8:30am
Updates
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 8:30am

Canvas has reported that this problem has been resolved:  https://status.instructure.com/incidents/m1r1l0b5y8ld
Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further problems using this service.

Description

ICON (Canvas) is experiencing slow job processing. This includes notifications from courses, blueprint course syncs, course content imports/exports and SIS imports. Canvas is aware of the problem and is working on a solution.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 8:36am
Start: 
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 8:00pm
End: 
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 8:45pm
Updates
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 8:45pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

Canvas (ICON) is experiencing some intermittent issues. They have identified the problem and are working on a fix.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 8:48pm
Start: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 8:00am
End: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 12:00pm
Description

Students already enrolled in the Two-Step Login service will be required to use Two-Step Login with ICON starting February 4, 2020. 

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 12:00pm
Start: 
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 7:30am
End: 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 8:15am
Updates
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 8:15am

This issue is resolved. 

Description

Some users are reporting problems accessing ICON (https://uiowa.instructure.com) from off-campus internet connections. 

ITS is in contact with the vendor about this issue, which may be related to issues with Amazon web hosting. 

As a workaround, we recommend using the VPN (https://its.uiowa.edu/vpn) to connect to ICON.  Note that you must use Duo two-step authentication to connect to the VPN (https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/115421).  

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 8:19am
Start: 
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 2:30pm
End: 
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 5:00pm
Updates
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 6:15pm

The issue has been resolved.

Description

ICON (Canvas) is having issues with previewing quizzes. The vendor is working on resolving the issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 6:23pm
Start: 
Saturday, August 31, 2019 - 11:00pm
End: 
Sunday, September 1, 2019 - 3:00am
Description

ICON (uiowa.instructure.com) will be available during this scheduled maintenance.

 

Services
Last updated: 
Sunday, September 1, 2019 - 3:00am
Start: 
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - 7:00am
End: 
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - 7:30am
Description

The ICON Dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu), ICON Data Reports (https://teach.uiowa.edu/icon-data-reports), and the ICON Archive (https://teach.uiowa.edu/ICON/FAQ/archive) will be offline while their databases are moved to a new location.  Access to Canvas will be unaffected, users can log in to Canvas directly at https://uiowa.instructure.com during this maintenance window.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - 7:30am
Start: 
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 10:45pm
End: 
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 11:30pm
Updates
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 11:30pm

This issue has been resolved. 

Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 11:15pm

The ICON Dashboard is up but not yet showing courses from Canvas. 

Description

The ICON Dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu) is currently down. As a workaround, users can access their ICON courses by going directly to the Canvas website (https://uiowa.instructure.com). ITS technicians are working to resolve the issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 11:26pm
Start: 
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 7:00am
End: 
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 8:00am
Description

The ICON Dashboard and Wiki will be intermittently unavailable for periods of up to 5 minutes for maintenance.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 8:00am
Start: 
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 7:30am
End: 
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 1:45pm
Updates
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 1:45pm

This issue is resolved.

Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further related issues.

Description

SCORM content in ICON is intermittently failing to load. Users are reporting a variety of errors and blank pages. ITS support staff are working with the vendor on this issue. 

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 1:53pm
Start: 
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 2:30am
Description

Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a brief maintenance event on ICON. Users will not be able to access ICON while the event is underway. 

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 2:30am
Start: 
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 3:30pm
End: 
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 4:15pm
Updates
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 4:15pm

This issue is resolved.

Description

ICON is experiencing intermittent availability issues. ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve these issues. 

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 4:31pm
Start: 
Friday, August 31, 2018 - 11:00pm
End: 
Saturday, September 1, 2018 - 12:00am
Description

Canvas will be performing maintenance on the Attendance (Roll Call) tool in Canvas. Users will not be able to access the Attendance interface to take new attendance or generate attendance reports for up to 30 minutes during this maintenance event.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, September 1, 2018 - 12:00am
Start: 
Monday, August 27, 2018 - 11:00am
End: 
Monday, August 27, 2018 - 12:00pm
Updates
Monday, August 27, 2018 - 12:00pm

This issue is resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further issues using the ICON service. 

Description

We are currently experiencing issues with quizzes in ICON. ITS support staff are working with the vendor on a solution.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, August 27, 2018 - 12:07pm
Start: 
Saturday, August 4, 2018 - 8:00am
End: 
Saturday, August 4, 2018 - 8:30am
Description

Unexpected maintenance needs to be performed on the ICON Database. Expected downtime should be very brief. Functionality of the dashboard may be offline during this time.

All users can still access their courses by going to uiowa.instructure.com.

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, August 4, 2018 - 8:30am
Start: 
Monday, May 21, 2018 - 2:30am
End: 
Monday, May 21, 2018 - 3:00am
Description

Canvas will be performing a brief maintenance event to apply a critical security update. Users will not be able to access Canvas during the maintenance time.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, May 21, 2018 - 3:00am
Start: 
Friday, January 26, 2018 - 11:45pm
End: 
Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 9:00am
Description

UPDATE:  This problem has been resolved.  Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.

 

UPDATE:  Multiple university services are experiencing intermittent access issues.  Web authentication through login.uiowa.edu and idp.uiowa.edu, ICON, wiki and other services are affected.  ITS staff are aware of the issue and are actively working on a resolution.  We will keep this page updated as more information is given to us.

 

Original notice:  ICON (https://icon.uiowa.edu/) and wiki (https://wiki.uiowa.edu) are experiencing sporadic access issues.

ITS staff are aware of the issue, and are working on resolving it.   

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 9:30am
Start: 
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 2:00am
End: 
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 4:00am
Description

Scheduled SCORM Maintenance

Instructure will be performing maintenance on the Canvas SCORM integration. Users will not be able to access SCORM content for 2 hours during this maintenance event. They hope that this maintenance will take less time than estimated.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 4:00am
Start: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 8:45am
End: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 9:45am
Description

UPDATE: These issues are resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues. 

Original Notice: Canvas users are experiencing longer load times than expected. This can cause the ICON dashboard to not properly represent your courses and slowness in all tasks in Canvas

We are working with the vendor to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 9:52am
Start: 
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 6:00am
End: 
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 10:00am
Description

The ICON Dashboard (https://icon.uiowa.edu/) has a scheduled maintenance window to migrate databases to a new server. 

Users will be able to log in to ICON and access their courses, but ICON Dashboard performance may be slow or briefly unresponsive during this time. 

Canvas performance will be unaffected by this work.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 10:00am
Start: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 12:00pm
End: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 8:45am
Description

Update: Canvas has fixed the underlying issue that caused submissions made via Turnitin LTI to return a file name of "default_filename.txt". Canvas has also run an automated script that should repair the majority of papers affected by the issue.

 

Original Alert: Some student submissions for Turnitin assignments are not displaying in Speedgrader in ICON, instead they are displayed as “default_filename.txt.”  ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve this issue.

In the meantime, the workaround is to use Turnitin’s Feedback Studio by going to the Grades or Assignments page and clicking on the color-coded percentage speech bubble to access and grade papers. 

Last updated: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 8:51am
Start: 
Monday, December 11, 2017 - 12:15pm
End: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 7:00am
Description

UPDATE: Gradebook exports to csv files are working normally again. Visit http://status.instructure.com for details. 

Original Notice: ICON gradebook exports to .csv file are taking longer than normal to complete. Several users have reported that the process has taken over 5 minutes. Please see http://status.instructure.com for more details.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 7:36am
Start: 
Friday, October 27, 2017 - 3:15pm
End: 
Monday, November 13, 2017 - 8:00am
Description

Update:  The Canvas support team has reported that this problem has been resolved.  Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.

Original Notice: ITS is working with Microsoft and Canvas to investigate an issue where users may be unable to access Office 365 files within Canvas modules. Users are able to add Office 365 items to modules but users will be unable to login and view new or existing Office 365 module items. 

A workaround for this issue is to login to https://office365.uiowa.edu and navigate to OneDrive before accessing the module item. We will update this notice as soon as more information is available.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2017 - 8:55am
Start: 
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 1:00pm
End: 
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 1:30pm
Description

Update:

The issues with the ICON dashboard have been resolved.

Original Message:

The ICON Dashboard is currently experiencing issues. ITS is working on resolving the issue and we will update the alert as soon as there is more info.

Courses are still accessible by navigating to https://uiowa.instructure.com

Services
Last updated: 
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 1:34pm
Start: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 5:15pm
End: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 6:45pm
Updates
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 6:45pm

Canvas has resolved this issue.

Description

There is currently an issue with Canvas causing the profile pictures for users to get mixed up.  ITS support staff have contacted Canvas Support, who confirmed this is a system wide issue with their software.  Canvas is working on resolving this issue. 

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 6:52pm
Start: 
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 11:00am
End: 
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 11:15am
Description

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience further issues.

Original Notice: ICON is down. Support staff are working to resolve this issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 11:23am
Start: 
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 8:30am
End: 
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 5:00pm
Description

UPDATE : Canvas has deployed a fix that has resolved the issue. ITS will continue to monitor the situation and send out updates as necessary.

ICON is currently experiencing slowness associated with importing and exporting files in courses.  Support staff are working with Canvas Support to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.  This notice will be updated once we have more information.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 4:55pm
Start: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 9:00am
End: 
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 8:30am
Description

UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. 

Original Notice: Canvas is currently experiencing a slowness with importing and exporting files.  Support staff are working to correct this problem as soon as possible.  This slowness in service is impacting several institutions throughout the Canvas community.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 8:38am
Start: 
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 10:00am
End: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 8:00am
Description

UPDATE:  Canvas Support reports that the slowness issue has been resolved

 

Original Notice:  ICON is currently experiencing slowness associated with importing and exporting files in courses. Support staff are working with Canvas Support to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.  This notice will be updated once we have more information.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 8:24am
Start: 
Saturday, April 8, 2017 - 4:00am
End: 
Saturday, April 8, 2017 - 8:00am
Description

ShareStream will be offline during the Data Center Operations & Services Maintenance.

ICON (D2L) will be online, but may experience brief connectivity issues.  ICON (Canvas) will not be impacted. 

Other enterprise instructional technologies (UI Capture, Wiki, etc.) should not be affected. 

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, April 8, 2017 - 8:00am
Start: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 8:00am
End: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 8:30am
Description

Update: This issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues. 

Original Notice: Instructors have lost access to their courses in ICON. ITS support staff are working on the issue. Student access is not affected. 

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 8:30am
Start: 
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 3:00pm
End: 
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 3:00pm
Description

Update: Canvas has pushed up the time for this work to 3pm today and it will be completed by 3pm tomorrow. It was originally scheduled from 10pm today until 10pm tomorrow.

Original Notice: The chat tool in ICON (Canvas) will be upgraded and unavailable during this time. Other areas of ICON will be unaffected. 

More information about the chat tool upgrade

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 3:00pm
Start: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 2:30pm
End: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 3:15pm
Description

Update: The ICON dashboard issues are resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues.

Original Notice: The ICON dashboard is having issues displaying links to courses. Support teams are aware of this issue and are investigating. In the meantime, please access courses via the "Canvas Home" button.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 3:12pm
Start: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 11:45am
End: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 6:00pm
Updates
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 6:00pm

The issues with Canvas are resolved.

Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any problems using this service.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 4:30pm

Canvas courses are starting to come back online, but are loading slowly.  The outage earlier today due to issues with Amazon Web Services in the cloud may not be fully resolved.  Amazon has repaired access to existing files in Canvas. Uploading new files to Canvas is not working correctly.

The issues with Qualtrics and Lynda.com are resolved.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:30pm

This outage is due to issues with Amazon Web Services in the cloud. Other services impacted that are not available are Qualtrics, UI Capture (Panopto) and Lynda.com.

Description

The ICON service is down. Support staff are working to resolve the issue. This notice will be updated once we have more information.

Last updated: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 6:05pm
Start: 
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 8:45am
End: 
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 9:15am
Description

UPDATE: The ICON service is restored. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience further issues.

The ICON service is down. Support staff are working to resolve the issue. This notice will be updated once we have more information.

Services
Last updated: 
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 9:15am
Start: 
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - 3:30am
End: 
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - 5:30am
Description

ICON will not be available during this time.

Services
Last updated: 
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - 5:30am
Start: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 1:30pm
End: 
Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 8:00am
Description

Some users are reporting a 'Service is Unavailable' error message when previewing documents in Speedgrader. Canvas has identified an issue that intermittently causes a connection timeout between Canvas and the Crocodoc document previewer. Canvas and their partner company are aware of the problem and are working on a resolution. Visit the Status Page for more information. 

Services
Last updated: 
Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 9:19am
Start: 
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 12:30pm
End: 
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 8:30am
Description

Canvas is experiencing ongoing intermittent document preview errors when loading documents in the browser.  Canvas is aware of the problem, and is working on a resolution.

Visit http://status.instructure.com/ for more information and updates from Canvas about this issue.     

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 8:28am
Start: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 9:30am
End: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 3:00pm
Description

There are issues logging in and accessing courses in Canvas.  Clearing your browser cache and cookies (directions are available here: https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/719), has worked in some cases.  ITS support staff are working with the vendor on this issue.

Services
Last updated: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 3:23pm
Start: 
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 10:15am
End: 
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 2:15pm
Description

Users are having trouble using the Import Content tool in ICON (Canvas). Currently all imports are holding as queued. We are aware of the issue and are working with the vendor to resolve this as quickly as possible.

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 2:26pm
Start: 
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 11:30am
End: 
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 7:30pm
Description

We have received reports that users are having trouble downloading files from ICON (Canvas). We are aware of the issue and are working with the vendor to resolve this as quickly as possible.

Find more information about this issue on the Canvas Status site

Services
Last updated: 
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 9:42pm