Students and faculty need to know when campus systems are down
When the LMS goes down during exams, students panic. When the registration system fails during enrollment, staff are overwhelmed. Without a status page, IT teams spend more time answering questions than fixing problems. CheckStatus gives your entire campus real-time visibility into every system.
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The problem
Why education institutions need a status page
Students lose access during critical periods
The LMS goes down during final exams, assignment submissions fail, and grades become unavailable. Students don't know if the problem is their device, their network, or the system itself — and panic spreads across campus.
Help desk overwhelmed with duplicate tickets
Every student and faculty member emails IT asking the same question: “Is the system down?” Your help desk is flooded with hundreds of identical tickets while the team that should be fixing the issue is busy answering questions.
No centralized communication channel
IT staff relay updates through email chains, social media posts, word of mouth, and ad-hoc announcements. Without a single source of truth, misinformation spreads and campus frustration grows with every passing minute.
Component-level status
Component-level status for every campus system
Create individual components for each campus system — LMS, student portal, email, registration, library databases, and Wi-Fi — so students and faculty can see exactly which services are affected. No more guessing if it's their device or your infrastructure.
- Individual components per campus system
- Real-time status indicators for every service
- Students instantly know which systems are affected
Automatic notifications
Automatic notifications to keep campus informed
Students and faculty subscribe to email alerts for the systems they care about. When you post an incident or update component status, subscribers are notified automatically — no more mass emails, no more social media scrambles.
- Email subscriptions per component
- Students choose which systems to follow
- Automatic notifications at every incident update
Scheduled maintenance
Scheduled maintenance for planned system upgrades
Registration system maintenance, LMS updates, network upgrades — schedule them in advance and notify your campus community before they happen. Students and faculty see upcoming maintenance windows and can plan around them.
- Advance notice for planned maintenance windows
- Subscribers notified before maintenance begins
- Clear timeline from start to completion
By the numbers
The case for campus transparency
$5,600
Avg cost per minute of education IT downtime
85%
Of students expect 24/7 digital access to learning
60%
Reduction in IT help desk tickets
79%
Cheaper than StatusPage.io
Pricing comparison
Save thousands vs StatusPage.io
Get the same features education institutions need at a fraction of the cost.
StatusPage.io
Atlassian's status page product
$99 /mo per page
- 1 status page
- Custom CSS at $399/mo
- Private pages +$79/mo
- 3 pages = $297/mo
CheckStatus
Everything education institutions need
$39 /mo for 3 pages
- Up to 3 status pages included
- Custom CSS included
- Private pages included
- Saves $3,096/year
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Yes! CheckStatus lets you create individual components for each campus system — LMS, student portal, email, registration, library databases, and Wi-Fi. Students and faculty can subscribe to specific components so they only receive notifications about the systems they rely on.
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Yes. Anyone can subscribe to your status page via email and choose to receive notifications for all components or only the specific systems they care about. When you post an incident or update component status, subscribers are notified automatically.
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Yes. The Growth plan ($39/mo) supports up to 3 status pages, and the Pro plan ($99/mo) supports up to 10. You can create a separate status page for each campus, department, or system group — all managed from one dashboard.
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Yes! Private status pages are available on the Growth plan and above. You can create an internal page for IT staff with detailed technical information while maintaining a public-facing page for students and faculty with simpler status updates.
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Yes. CheckStatus runs on completely independent infrastructure from your campus systems. When your LMS, email, or network goes down, your status page stays online so students and faculty can check what's happening and when to expect restoration.
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Yes! Our free plan includes 1 status page, up to 5 components, email notifications, and full API access. It's perfect for individual departments or small institutions that want to keep their community informed without any cost.
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