Education
Coursera
Coursera partners with top universities and companies to offer online courses, professional certificates, and degree programs in hundreds of subjects.
What is Coursera?
Is Coursera down? Coursera is an online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, offering courses, certificates, and degrees from universities and companies including Stanford, Duke, Google, IBM, and hundreds of other prestigious institutions. It grew rapidly through its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) model that made university-level instruction globally accessible, going public on the NYSE in 2021 at a valuation of approximately $4.3 billion. Coursera serves over 100 million registered learners across 190 countries.
Coursera's product portfolio spans individual courses, specialisations (curated series of courses), professional certificates from companies like Google and Meta, and full online degrees from accredited universities. For professionals, Coursera for Business provides enterprise learning management for skills development at scale. The platform's graded assignments, peer-reviewed projects, and formal certificates have given online credentials increasing credibility with employers, particularly in technology, data science, and business fields.
Coursera outages affect learners in the middle of active courses and professionals pursuing time-sensitive certifications. Common symptoms include video lectures failing to load, quizzes and assignments not submitting, peer review submissions encountering errors, certificate generation failing after course completion, or the Coursera mobile app losing sync with web progress. Corporate Coursera for Business users whose organisations have specific training completion deadlines find outages particularly impactful.
If Coursera is down, Outage.gg tracks Coursera server status and outage history in real time. If Coursera is down or course content is not loading, visit the live status page for community reports and subscribe for an instant notification when service is restored.
Common Coursera Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Coursera is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
Unable to find or join matches, long queue times, or errors when trying to connect to game servers.
Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Coursera outages and server status.
You can check the live Coursera server status at outage.gg/services/coursera. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Coursera can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/coursera and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Coursera status page at outage.gg/services/coursera. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Coursera comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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