Google shutdown hits schools
Delaware County school districts were among the numerous users disrupted by a widespread outage of Google and YouTube Monday morning.
Google classroom and Google Doc have popular platforms for many schools in recent years and even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic when many schools are teaching students virtually.
Upper Darby School District tweeted this to parents and students at 7:39 a.m. : “Google is experiencing significant outages. Students please complete your asynchronous work and we will provide an update as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!”
In Haverford Township, administrators sent out a phone message shortly before 8 a.m. stating that email, Google drive and the ability to sign on to the Zoom classroom were impacted. They have received communic ations with Google that certain features had retained functionality and they should check their Canvas program which was not affected for asynchronous work.
By 8:45 a.m. Interboro School District was able to report had Google had resolved the issue with its partial outages that had impacted access to their Chromebooks, Schoology, and other Google Apps.
“At this time, Google is reporting that all systems have been restored and that all google services are functioning normally,” Haverford School District spokeswoman Anna Deacon wrote in an email at 10:30 a.m. “They have been stable for a period of time but we will continue to monitor this throughout the day and will communicate any changes.”