Is Open University down?
Critical outage reported
From status.open.ac.uk · checked 1 minute ago · every 5 minutes
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As of 12:50 UTC on 13 November 2026, Open University's status page reports a critical outage.
- Last problem
- Going on now
- Problems, last 30 days
- 5 (3 critical)
- Typical incident
- 3 h
- Longest in 90 days
- 3 days · 15 Oct
Microsoft 365 Outage
CriticalStarted 5 hours ago, affecting Major Incident, Infrastructure.
Read the updates on status.open.ac.uk ↗Uptime
Open University, last 30 days
76.47 %
Biggest dip: Open University, 93 h of issue on Oct 15.
Incidents
Started in the last 7 days
1
This week Week before
Today: Open University (critical).
Recovery
Median time back online
13 h 18 min
0 of 4 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.
Components 36
2 with issues
- Major Incident Critical
- Broadcast Partnerships (BBC) website
- Dashboard
- eTMA submission system
- Help Centre website
- iCMA access
- Library Services
- Module websites
- Online rooms
- Registration websites
- StudentHome
- Telephone service
- TutorHome
- Tutorial booking system
- Protection against Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks
- Test
Apprenticeship Portal 2
parts 
- Curriculum Development & Production
- ePortfolio
Ceremony booking 2
parts
- Assessment & Award
- Customer Record Management Systems
External Network 2
parts
- Infrastructure
- Other
OpenLearn 2
parts
- Drupal
- OpenCreate
Other services 12
parts
- Assessment & Award
- CAMEL
- CIRCE MI
- Collaboration & Learning
- Curriculum Development & Production
- Customer Record Management Systems
- Finance
- Infrastructure Critical
- Marketing & Registration
- Other
- People Services
- VOICE
Last 90 days
6 incidents in 46 days tracked · no reported issues 87.9% of the time · typical incident 3 h
Recent incidents
Times in UTC
- VOICE Maintenance and 1 more 33 h 25 min
Maintenance - Issues with OU Web Sites 1 h 30 min
Issue - S/4 Hana, BPC and SAP Payroll outage and 1 more 6 h 58 min Maintenance
- StudentHome Access Problems 3 h Critical
- Learning Systems Unavailable and 2 more 23 h 36 min Critical
- OUSBA Portal Unavailable 3 days Issue
- Issues with CIRCE Weblets 2 h 10 min
Major outage
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