Simple Syllabus

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Simple Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi. It automatically imports your course information and university/department-wide policies so that you can focus on making changes only to the parts that need editing. Furthermore, it removes the need to download/upload your syllabus when you need to make changes or send it to your colleagues.

FAQs

Direct Link (required for teachers of cross-listed courses):
Canvas: You can add it to your course(s) by following the steps in this document: How to Enable Simple Syllabus in Your Course
Once it's added to your Canvas course, the main place to access it will be through Canvas: Sign in to Canvas, click on any one of your courses, and then click the Simple Syllabus link on the navigation menu. This will take you to the editor for this specific course's syllabus.

Please Note: The Canvas integration does not currently work for cross-listed courses. If your Canvas course contains more than one course section (e.g., ENC 1101 001 & 002), you must edit and publish your syllabi via the .

For any official course at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, Simple Syllabus will be available to optimize your syllabus editing and publishing experience. It will automatically import course info, university/department policies, and information from a previous semester when you taught this class.

Training is available at
Help Desk Requests can be submitted using this .

Because a cross-listed course contains more than one section in a Canvas shell, Simple Syllabus will show instructors a message instead of showing a published syllabus. Students, however, will see the syllabus that corresponds to their enrolled section.

To learn how to manage syllabi for cross-listed courses, view our Cross-Listed Courses and Simple Syllabus guide.

Simple Syllabus is an online, template-driven platform where instructors can easily create and share customizable class syllabi in our learning management system, Canvas. All syllabi are automatically stored in this campus wide repository.

Florida Atlantic uses Simple Syllabus to make it easy for students to access course syllabi and to meet posting requirements for general education courses per state laws and regulations.

Simple Syllabus uses templates to automatically import course details from Florida Atlantic's catalog, schedule, and bookstore. Templates ensure consistency and compliance with policies, and the default template includes all required university policies.

Published syllabi used in previous terms are available to import into a future term or another course in the same semester.

Yes. You can edit the syllabus at any time; it will update to the course and Simple Syllabus only after you have clicked "Submit" at the bottom of the page.

Visibility- This setting can be locked as 'on' or visible at the template coming from the university-, college-, or department-level. This toggle determines if the component is visible to students. This of tis as being used or not used.

This setting determines who can see your syllabus after submission.

When set to General Public, the syllabus is publicly available. This is required for General Education courses.

When set to Campus Community, the syllabus will only be visible to users who can sign in to Â鶹ŮÀÉ systems via SSO.

You can build syllabi for a particular course and once published, copy/import that syllabus into your other section from the same or previous semester by using the 'Import' button in the editor. This will copy over the editable components. You will be able to update these components if needed.

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Student resources

Want to see all your upcoming course's syllabi from the same place? Or maybe you're just interested in viewing syllabi from future/prospective courses? syllabi that have been published by professors here at Â鶹ŮÀÉ. You can also access this system by clicking the Simple Syllabus button in the global navigation menu visible from any part of Canvas.