{"id":18261,"date":"2026-05-08T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:53:48","slug":"course-update-08-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/course-update-08-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Update 08 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Important message re. Foundation Online Course \u2013 Canvas Issue<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Those who\u2019ve tried to log on to Canvas (the course classroom) in the last couple of days will have noticed that there is a message saying that Canvas \u201cFree For Teachers\u201d is down at the moment. Essentially, it looks as if there has been an incident through malicious use of the system, resulting in Canvas suspending operation until it is sorted. There\u2019s more on this on their site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructure.com\/incident_update\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is affecting users worldwide, not just us, and there is nothing that we can do other than wait and keep checking their sites for updates.\u00a0For those in the middle of study, the good news is that our material remains available in other formats:<\/p>\n<h4>Modules:<\/h4>\n<p>Each course module is freely available on YouTube \u2013 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLAwvBqgxbmJ4rVR4nGj1VJKwCp9iX76S1\">Foundation Online YouTube Playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of the course material is available in our Foundation Study Guide (paper, e-book and spoken audio) \u2013 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-study-guide\/\">essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-study-guide\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Kindle version is already pretty reasonably priced at \u00a32.99, but I have pushed through a price change to get this <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>down to\u00a0 \u00a31.99<\/strong><\/span> temporarily, for those who want to access the material on a computer, phone, tablet or Kindle device. Price updates take a few hours, so check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/redirect.php?id=fsgkindle\">essexham.co.uk\/redirect.php?id=fsgkindle<\/a> for the price drop.<\/p>\n<h4>Mock tests:<\/h4>\n<p>These are obviously affected by the Canvas issue, so course mocks, plus paid mocks are unavailable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free mock papers are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/training-resources\/mock-exams\/\">RSGB website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We also have a book of 6 complete mock tests (paperback or e-book) \u2013 see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-mock-tests-book\/\">essexham.co.uk\/train\/foundation-mock-tests-book\/<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Although \u00a32.99 for 6 mocks was already pretty cheap, we\u2019ve requested that the Kindle price be <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>dropped to \u00a31.99<\/strong><\/span> temporarily, for those who want to access these 6 mocks on a computer, phone, tablet or Kindle device. Price updates take a few hours, so check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/redirect.php?id=fmtkindle\">essexham.co.uk\/redirect.php?id=fmtkindle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Essex Ham \/ HamTrain site, FAQ and YouTube content are all unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>We share everyone\u2019s frustration that Canvas is currently down \u2013 fingers crossed it won\u2019t be for long, but the good news is that all of the material and tests are available in other formats, so hopefully, training disruption can be kept at a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone needs any material or assistance, please contact us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/contact\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n<p>Pete and the HamTrain team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important message re. Foundation Online Course \u2013 Canvas Issue Those who\u2019ve tried to log on to Canvas (the course classroom) in the last couple of days will have noticed that there is a message saying that Canvas \u201cFree For Teachers\u201d is down at the moment. Essentially, it looks as if there has been an incident&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/course-update-08-may-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Course Update 08 May 2026&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18264,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions\/18264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}