FIU Restores Canvas by 9 a.m. Saturday After Cybersecurity Incident — Is Canvas Still Down

FIU said is canvas still down at the university’s Canvas Learning Management System after a cybersecurity incident disrupted access on Thursday, May 7. The school said it would restore access by 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 9, giving students a concrete window for when classes and course materials should be reachable again.

FIU Canvas and May 9

The university said summer classes will begin as scheduled on Monday, May 11. That keeps the academic calendar intact even as students wait for the platform to come back online.

FIU said the Canvas Learning Management System was currently unavailable because of the incident. The school also said it was coordinating with Instructure, the company that operates Canvas, to assess the situation and determine next steps.

Phishing warnings from FIU

FIU said institutions nationwide were experiencing similar disruptions. That broader footprint makes this more than a campus-only outage, because a learning platform used for classes can fail in parallel across schools when the underlying service is under strain.

The university warned people to remain vigilant for potential phishing attempts or suspicious communications related to the situation. For students and staff, that means the outage is not the only risk; any message asking them to click a link or share credentials deserves extra scrutiny.

FIU said overnight on Friday, May 8, that the Canvas Learning Management System had been restored, then said access would remain unavailable until further notice while administrators and the cybersecurity team conducted a review. The unanswered issue is whether full access will hold through the Saturday morning restoration target.