D2L has confirmed that Brightspace, Ryerson’s learning management system was unavailable on Friday October 9, 2015 from 6PM to 6:15PM.
The issue was caused by problems with the D2L’s Web server farm.
We are following up with D2L to get more information on the root cause and to check that the problem did not occur earlier as we have at least one report of a problem at approximately 5 PM.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that was caused by this outage.
– Computing and Communications Services