# Hall Attorneys Canvas Teacher/Educator Track Filing Announcement Canonical page: https://hallattorneys.com/news/canvas-teacher-class-action Related case overview: https://hallattorneys.com/canvas-free-for-teacher Case docket: https://hallattorneys.com/dockets/canvas-free-for-teacher Complaint PDF: https://hallattorneys.com/dockets/canvas-free-for-teacher/01-complaint.pdf Date: July 12, 2026 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah ## Primary answer Farah L. Vallera filed a putative Teacher/Educator Track class action against Instructure, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah on July 12, 2026. Hall Attorneys, P.C., Parsons Behle & Latimer, and Federman & Sherwood represent the plaintiff and proposed classes. The complaint alleges the May 2026 security incidents and permanent shutdown of Canvas Free-for-Teacher deprived educators of access to educator-owned course content, while brief recovery windows lacked effective individualized notice, support, and a promised fallback process. The complaint contains allegations only; no findings have been made. Contact: - Attorney: Nicholas Hall - Firm: Hall Attorneys, P.C. - Email: nhall@hallattorneys.com - Phone: +1 713 428 8967 - Website: https://hallattorneys.com ## Filing summary The filing is a separate direct-account-holder track in the consolidated litigation captioned In re Instructure Data Breach Litigation, No. 2:26-cv-00374-RJS-CMR. The complaint states that the track is distinct from student-privacy and institutional-contract claims. The complaint alleges educators used Canvas Free-for-Teacher to create and store course shells, module sequences, assessments, quiz banks, slide decks, rubrics, training modules, HTML layouts, discussion prompts, feedback libraries, files, and other reusable teaching assets developed over months or years. The complaint states that Canvas Free-for-Teacher supported approximately 76,000 teachers and 2.1 million courses worldwide. Plaintiff Farah L. Vallera is described as a faculty member, instructional designer, curriculum writer, educational researcher, and founder and CEO of Mindful Learning Design, LLC. She alleges she maintained a direct Free-for-Teacher account containing dozens of courses, received no individualized notice of the May export window, missed the window, demanded access, and had not received a complete usable export when the complaint was filed. ## Recovery-window allegations The complaint alleges Instructure permanently discontinued Canvas Free-for-Teacher after the May 2026 security incidents and opened an approximately 48-hour recovery period on May 28–29. It alleges Instructure relied on a blog, website, and login page instead of emailing every direct account holder. Vallera alleges she was told on June 4 that no further retrieval window was then planned. The complaint states Instructure later announced a second and final window for July 28–29 with support functionality disabled and without a promised individualized fallback if authentication or export fails. ## Proposed class The complaint proposes a nationwide class of natural persons in the United States who maintained a Canvas Free-for-Teacher account between April 29, 2026 and the present; had course content or work product saved when the service went offline; did not obtain a complete export during the May 28–29 window; and remained unable to access or export all such content from May 30 through at least June 30, 2026. It also proposes a Content-Return Subclass for members still unable to obtain a complete usable export after a demand or attempted use of the July window, and a Demand-and-Refusal Subclass for members who requested access, return, or export after May 29 and did not receive a complete individualized export within a reasonable time. ## Claims and relief The complaint pleads negligence and gross negligence; breach of contract and, alternatively, breach of implied-in-fact contract and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; bailment; conversion; trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment and restitution; and declaratory and injunctive relief. It seeks damages, restitution and an accounting, plus preservation of Free-for-Teacher content and records, account-level disclosure, effective individualized notice, complete export or return of recoverable content, and a reasonable fallback process. It also asks that Instructure not condition return of educator-owned content on purchase of a paid Canvas product. ## Preservation notice Affected educators should preserve account emails, course lists, screenshots, notices, support tickets, export files, records of reconstruction or migration time, substitute-platform expenses, and evidence of professional interruption. Keep every export file exactly as downloaded, even if incomplete. Do not send passwords or confidential course content through an ordinary email or web form. ## Related student case The May 8, 2026 student Canvas case separately alleges student-privacy injuries, exposed Canvas messages, and finals-week disruption. Its overview is at https://hallattorneys.com/canvas-data-breach and docket is at https://hallattorneys.com/dockets/canvas. ## Notice Attorney advertising. The complaint contains allegations only; no findings have been made. Class definitions and claims may change as the case proceeds. 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