This Agreement represents a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) between ‘Straub Consulting Limited’ herein referred to as “SEBDATA” and Customers for the provisioning of hosting services required to support and sustain the SaaS “CANVAS LMS”.
This Agreement outlines the parameters of all CANVAS LMS SaaS hosting support services covered as they are mutually understood by the primary stakeholders. This Agreement does not supersede current processes and procedures unless explicitly stated herein.
Working Day means a period in the day starting from 9am and ending at 5pm
Working hour means an hour within the period from 9am to 5pm in a working day
Working Week means the days from Monday to Friday in any week of the year
SaaS means Software as a Service
CANVAS LMS means the learning management software as a service CANVAS, partner of and hosted by SEBDATA
Customer means the SEBDATA-hosted CANVAS LMS User(s) and the legal entity subscribing to SEBDATA-hosted CANVAS LMS SaaS as outlined in the CANVAS LMS SaaS Agreement by SEBDATA
Primary stakeholders means SEBDATA and the Customer
The purpose of this Agreement is to ensure that the proper elements and commitments are in place to provide consistent service support and delivery to the Customer(s) by the Service CANVAS LMS(s).
The objectives of this Agreement are to:
The following detailed service parameters are the responsibility of SEBDATA in the ongoing support of this Agreement.
The following Services are covered by this Agreement:
Customer responsibilities and/or requirements in support of this Agreement include:
SEBDATA’s responsibilities and/or requirements in support of this Agreement include:
Assumptions related to in-scope services and/or components include:
Effective support of in-scope services is a result of maintaining consistent service levels. The following sections provide relevant details on service availability, monitoring of in-scope services and related components.
Coverage parameters specific to the service(s) covered in this agreement are as follows, excluding public holidays:
In support of services outlined in this Agreement, SEBDATA will respond to and resolve service-related incidents and/or requests submitted by the Customer based on the information provided by the Customer. These service-related incidents and/or requests will henceforth be referred to as “ticket(s)”.
Priority of tickets is based on two factors: urgency and impact.
Urgency: how many people will be affected by the problem. Urgency can be high or low.
Impact: to what degree the problem will disrupt business as usual. Impact can be high or low.
Priority Matrix
Urgency and impact having been determined, the following priority matrix is consulted to determine the priority level of the ticket and therefore the corresponding response and resolution time:
High Urgency | Low Urgency | |
High Impact | Priority 1 | Priority 2 |
Low Impact | Priority 2 | Priority 3 |
Priority Schedule : The following priority schedule outlines the time frames attached to each priority level:
Response Target | Resolve Target | |
Priority 1 | Within 2 working hours | Within 1 working day |
Priority 2 | Within 8 working hours | Within 3 working days |
Priority 3 | Within 8 working hours | Within 4 working days |
In support of services outlined in this agreement, the Hosting Service CANVAS LMS will adhere to the following Key Performance Indicator (“KPI”) targets:
SEBDATA strives to maintain the availability the CANVAS LMS hosting services 24 hours a day. On occasion, CANVAS will need to perform maintenance on their services, and this may require a period of downtime. In such cases, SEBDATA will communicate clearly the parameters of this maintenance at the earliest convenience to CANVAS LMS customers. Where possible, SEBDATA will try to minimize any such downtime.
There will be no compensation due to any downtime, access issues or data loss, the Customers only recourse is to discontinue using our services.
In the unlikely event of a necessary disaster recovery from agreed backups, SEBDATA will perform and make available a system within the following period:
While SEBDATA will take standard industry measures to back up all Data stored using the CANVAS LMS Services, and to prevent data loss, SEBDATA only guarantees for one full backup per day which expire, and are therefore no longer available after 30 days from backup date.
The Customer may request a copy of any of the Customer’s Data stored in SEBDATA-hosted CANVAS LMS, provided that the Customer pays SEBDATA reasonable costs of providing that copy. On receipt of that request, SEBDATA will provide a copy of the Data in a common electronic form within 5 business days.