Temporary teaching without Canvas

Update May 9 2026

Canvas is working normally again

This news article concerns a service disruption in Canvas on May 8, 2026. Now that Canvas is operating as usual again, it is important that communication, materials, and submissions take place there to simplify things for both students and teachers.

Communicate with students by email

As the course coordinator, you can obtain an email list for your students via the Course Participants service. This way, you can, for example, share a Zoom link or link to course materials in OneDrive.

The Course participants service

Tip! Ask your students to spread the word that there is an email from the teacher that they should read.

Distribute course materials via OneDrive

Create a folder for each course in your OneDrive and share the link to the folder by email with your students. Remember to share it with read-only permission.

Share files and folders in Microsoft OneDrive

Recommendations for examinations and submissions

This applies to examinations and submissions that were to be carried out in Canvas. For submissions that you decide on yourself, it may be appropriate to postpone the deadline. Otherwise, there is a temporary solution, for submissions see below.

Consequences of postponed examinations

For examinations (exams, partial exams, submissions, etc.) that cannot be carried out during an operational disruption, students must be offered a new examination within 10 working days.

However, at the end of the spring semester, 10 days is not practical as it could mean that the examination is moved to August. For students, this would result in too great consequences regarding, for example, loss of income and accommodation based on completed higher education credits. In such a situation, teachers are recommended to contact the examination administration ( examinationsadm@kth.se ) to review the possibilities of, for example, changing the examination form.

Temporary solution: submissions via “File Request” in OneDrive

With the file request feature in OneDrive or SharePoint, you can select a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send to them. People from whom you request files can only upload files. They cannot see the contents of the folder, edit, delete, or download files, or even see who else has uploaded files.

Please note that you will need to enter the results and feedback manually in Canvas and/or Ladok afterwards.

Create a file request (support.microsoft.com)

Preventive measures

It is not possible to guarantee complete protection against future disruptions, but the possibilities for Canvas to function safely are better than ever, given the security improvements made after the disruptions. The following things are being done to facilitate in the event of a longer outage:

• Sunet and KTH are looking at setting up a Canvas instance on their own servers.
• KTH is preparing to update the backup solution in the event of a more extensive situation.

Read more in the news article Extra monitoring of Canvas .

For current operational information, see Operational status for employees .