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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - Ironically, on the first day of school of the new year in Rhineland-Palatinate, massive technical problems arose on the most important platform for digital learning.
The servers provided for this purpose - i.e. high-performance computers for external access - were temporarily unavailable on Monday.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Education named a hacker attack as the cause.
Experts are working flat out to solve the problems.
To contain the corona pandemic, the schools in Rhineland-Palatinate should remain in distance learning until mid-January.
The learning platform moodle @ RLP is currently in use at around 900 schools in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The non-commercial open software project was used more intensively last year during the corona-related closure of schools - from March to August the schools were completely or later partially closed.
Moodle is also to be integrated into the new Rhineland-Palatinate school campus, which is to be introduced in all 1,600 schools in the state from March.
Although the corresponding server capacities were increased many times over before Christmas, there were problems with access to the platform or long loading times, the ministry said.
During the troubleshooting, it turned out "that the systems were also massively burdened by hacker attacks".
According to the ministry, the BigBlueButton (BBB) video conferencing system was also the target of a hacker attack, but is now stable again when it is accessed outside of the Moodle learning platform via a web browser.
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The education policy spokeswoman for the CDU state parliamentary group, Anke Beilstein, spoke of a "false start in distance learning for which the state government is responsible" even before the ministry announced it.