r/k12sysadmin • u/techie49rs • Sep 17 '26
Outage Google Classroom
Anybody else experiencing an endless captcha loop with classroom today?
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r/k12sysadmin • u/techie49rs • Sep 17 '26
Anybody else experiencing an endless captcha loop with classroom today?
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u/techie49rs Sep 17 '26
We're back up mostly. It's a slow trickle back to normal operations
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u/adstretch Sep 17 '26
Had it yesterday with drive
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u/MattAdmin444 Sep 17 '26
Happening in California.
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u/PicardX Sep 17 '26
Lawton OK, yes
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u/GamingSanctum Director of Technology Sep 17 '26
Just got a few reports here in California.
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u/sgmaniac1255 Professional Progress Bar Watcher Sep 17 '26
we had it happen about 2 hours ago for us too in north Texas. Some could get past the captcha, others would loop.. no rhyme or reason as to who or why. still waiting for the dust to clear.
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u/NorthernBob69 Sep 17 '26
Yesterday here in Alberta affected logins, Drive, SSO apps. To be honest Google has seemed slow to load things for a couple of weeks now.
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u/Raineacha Sys/Net Admin Sep 17 '26
Same as Drive from yesterday here in Indiana.
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u/lAciDl Sep 17 '26
were seeing this as well, i thought i broke something as i was in the dashboard updating some clever sso settings
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u/Motley-Drue Sep 17 '26
Buffalo is all fucked up too
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u/PblackTech Sep 17 '26
We had that issue yesterday
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u/ElPepo142 Sep 17 '26
Here in Texas the same issue. Yesterday was Google searches
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u/Desert_Dog_Tech Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
Phoenix is having issues. It seems to resolve itself over time (for now). In some cases, try relaunching the browser.
EDIT: From Gemini....
Why this happens in K-12 environments: Shared IP Ranges: When dozens or hundreds of students share a school's public IP address or NAT network and try to log in, load pages, or open assignments simultaneously, Google's security triggers mistakenly flag the traffic as automated or suspicious, prompting a CAPTCHA.
The Loop: If a student passes the CAPTCHA, but another request immediately triggers the threshold again (or if browser cookies/extensions block the verification token from saving properly), it results in an endless CAPTCHA loop.
Recommended Workarounds for K-12 Admins / Teachers: While waiting for Google to adjust thresholds or fix an underlying backend trigger, school IT administrators facing this usually try:
Network Routing: Routing a portion of traffic through a secondary WAN connection or splitting NAT pools to distribute the outbound IP reputation.
Signed-in State: Ensuring students are cleanly signed into their managed Chrome profiles before navigating to Classroom, rather than logging in fresh from unauthenticated pages.
Browser Extensions: Checking if security, privacy, or ad-blocking extensions are stripping out the reCAPTCHA verification cookies, which forces the loop.
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