Cobb County and Marietta students have resumed live, virtual lessons after Zoom resolved an issue that caused outages around the globe.
The outage, which was reported early Monday, prevented teachers from providing live, remote instruction for students, both school systems said.
Cobb County schools spokesman Eric Rauch said the outage only affected live classrooms lessons within its Teaching and Learning System, but the rest of the platform was “fully functional.”
Marietta City Schools spokeswoman Jen Brock said some educators had no problems logging in to Zoom, but others were unable to launch the platform or scheduled meetings. By early Monday afternoon, the system told parents via email that Zoom had fixed the issues.
“We have been informed that Zoom has corrected their outage issues and should be working now,” the system said.
Zoom is the popular video conferencing platform that allows schools, governments and businesses to hold virtual meetings. More than 16,000 account users reported issues with the Zoom platforms, including trouble logging in, connecting to its server and using its site, according to monitoring site Downdetector.
Zoom posted on Twitter early Monday afternoon that the issues have been resolved.
“We are continuing to monitor the situation,” the company said. “Thank you all for your patience and our sincere apologies for disrupting your day.”
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