The syllabus is an area where you can post your course syllabus or greensheet with instructor information, course requirements, expectations and more. It is a convenient place for this information so students can view it at any time.

Create a New Syllabus

  • Enter the Syllabus area by clicking on Syllabus in the left menu bar. If it's not available yet, turn it on in the Edit Tools area of Site Info.
  • If no syllabus entry has yet been created, your page will be empty except for a Create/Edit link at the top of the page. Click on Create/Edit .
  • The next page is also sparse, with just a New/Redirect/Preview link at the top. Click on Add.

 

  • In the dialog box, give your syllabus a title. Then add content in the large white content box. You can type from scratch here, or you can copy and paste text you've already created in a word processor, such as MS Word. Notice that if you tabbed things in Word, they don't always look correct here. It might be better to line things up using Word's Table feature.
  • Choose if you want the syllabus to be available to anyone browsing (Public View = Yes), or just available to students enrolled in the course (Public View = No).
  • If you want enrollees to be notified that they syllabus has been posted or not, make that choice.
  • Click on Post to have the syllabus loaded for viewing, click Preview if you want to see what it will look like before you post, click Save Draft if you want to think about it and come back later, or click Cancel to leave without posting anything.
  • Continue adding syllabus sections. Each time you want a title/header over a section, you need to create a "New" syllabus item by clicking on the New button.

 

  • Click on the Preview link at the top of the syllabus list page to switch to the actual syllabus view.

 

 

  • To edit your syllabus, click on the Create/Edit link at the top of the page.
  • From the list of syllabus items, click on the title of the section you want to edit.
  • You can also reorder your sections by clicking on Move Up or Move Down links next to the item title.
  • To remove a syllabus item, check the box to the right of that item in the list and then on the Update button at the bottom of the page.

 

 

Using a Web Page as the Syllabus

You can use an existing web page as your syllabus instead of creating individual sections as described above. However, the syllabus must already exist elsewhere on the web.

  • Enter the Syllabus area by clicking on Syllabus in the left menu bar.
  • If necessary, click on the Create/Edit button to see the Syllabus Item list.
  • Click on the Redirect button. In the dialog box, type in the web address of your syllabus page. Be sure to include the http:// prefix.
  • Click on Save to set this web page as your syllabus; click Cancel to leave without making that change.
  • If you decide not to use this web page anymore, remove it by re-entering Redirect and deleting the web address in the dialog box. Click on Save and your syllabus will revert to any syllabus items you've previously created, or to a blank page if you haven't yet created any syllabus items as described in the first section above.

 

3/8/06