As Oklahoma students finish up their courses and take their final exams for the semester, the popular learning management system Canvas underwent a cybersecurity attack Thursday. Officials say it’s now back online.

Canvas is a widely used, web-based learning management system, a sort of digital classroom where educators load materials and assignments for students, and where students submit assignments and get their grades.

According to the university system, a threat actor has interrupted access to Canvas for users on all four NU campuses and campuses nationwide.

Canvas, a learning management system across all school levels in the state, is down after a cyberattack compromised student, teacher, and staff data. Multiple s

On Thursday, a hacker group called "ShinyHunters" said it was responsible for a data breach of Instructure, which manages Canvas.

Canvas, a learning management system, was down for hours due to a ShinyHunters data breach. Find out more about the widespread outage.

A widespread disruption to the Canvas learning management system briefly knocked students and teachers offline across North America, including at the University

Although the learning management system is back online after it was hacked Thursday, MU officials are still encouraging students and faculty to be cautious while navigating Canvas.