User reports
0
Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
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Is Athabasca University down?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Microsoft Services Returning
Source: the vendor's status page · We are not affiliated with Athabasca University.
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What to try while Athabasca University is having problems
Estimated fix: Not enough Athabasca University history yet; similar Education outages lasted 2 h (median, typically 18 min–9 h; 11 outages).
- If the LMS or portal is down, email your instructor a timestamped screenshot and check the school's IT status page for deadline extensions.
Live diagnosis
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Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
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Live outage map
No reports in the last 24 hours.
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What's broken
Recent reports
Each row is a time, a coarse place, and a problem type from a new report. Optional notes stay private. Places with fewer than 3 reports in the last 8 days are shown without a location.
No public reports yet.
Our checks
Reaching it
Last checked 18 min ago. Last stored result reached it in 66 ms.
Official status
Minor incident
Microsoft Services Returning Official status page
Reports and checks
Numbers behind the chart
| Time (UTC) | Reports | Baseline | Latency | Failed checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 90 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 88 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 234 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 78 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 188 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 179 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 70 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 67 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 353 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 126 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 111 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 99 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 90 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 79 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 72 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 54 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 97 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 213 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 97 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 161 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 244 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 78 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 148 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 108 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 70 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 86 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 130 ms | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 0 | 0.0 | 82 ms | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 0 | 0.0 | 136 ms | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 0 | 0.0 | 86 ms | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 0 | 0.0 | 127 ms | 0 |
| Nov 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 ms | 0 |
Reliability
100% uptime · No user reports in the last 24h
90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 10 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.
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This week
Planned maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance - OROS (oros.athabascau.ca)
OROS is scheduled to undergo planned maintenance on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. (MDT). We anticipate this maintenance to take approximately 2 hours. During the maintenance OROS is unavailable. Login, course registration, and online payment do not work and can be used again after the window. Payments started before the window complete normally.
Announced by Athabasca University · source
Planned maintenance is not an outage. Times and wording are the vendor’s own. Outage Weather →
Past outages
No outages on record for Athabasca University yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.
Having trouble with Athabasca University?
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About Athabasca University
Athabasca University, at athabascau.ca, is one of the Education services we monitor. AU, Canada’s Online University, offers flexible distance learning with world-class courses, undergraduate and graduate programs, and professional development.
Athabasca University publishes an official status page at status.athabascau.ca; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
Common problems for education services: learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration.
Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 10 days of checks. No public incidents logged since monitoring began 10 days ago.
Response time over the last 24 hours: 123 ms average, 66–236 ms range across 11 successful checks.
Questions
Is Athabasca University down right now?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Microsoft Services Returning
When was Athabasca University last down?
We have not recorded a public Athabasca University incident since monitoring began 10 days ago.
What is Athabasca University's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 10 days of checks.
How fast does Athabasca University respond?
123 ms on average over the last 24 hours (66–236 ms).
Does Athabasca University have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.athabascau.ca.
Athabasca University not working for me but the status is fine. What now?
It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For education services, watch for learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration. If many people report Athabasca University here at once, the problem is on Athabasca University's side.
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