Every form you teach should accept a syllabus. Instead of printing out copies of your syllabus for your students, you can include your syllabus in Canvas for students to hands access. A syllabus tin can be added to your Sail course in three master ways below:

1. Syllabus Tool (Tab) in Sail

One manner to include your syllabus is through the Syllabus option that you find in the Class Carte du jour. The syllabus tool, referred to simply as the "Syllabus" inside Canvass, makes it easy to communicate to your students exactly what will be required of them throughout the course in chronological order.

In addition to a field at the top that can be edited with the Rich Content editor, when you lot add your syllabus using the Syllabus feature, all of the assignments you create are automatically displayed at the bottom of the page (it isn't possible to hide this list of assignments on the Syllabus page). It tin only be inverse by editing or deleting the Assignments or Events elsewhere in the course. All assignments (unpublished and published) are visible in the syllabus for instructors.

Benefits of this method:

  • Clearly-labeled, like shooting fish in a barrel to find and consistent.
  • Settings let the Syllabus to be previewed by prospective students prior to the class opening date.

Drawbacks of this method:

  • The assignments listing which auto-populates at the bottom of the Syllabus tool is undesirable for fully-adult courses considering information technology encourages students to skip module content and attempt assignments without reading other module contents. Considering of this, we more often than not recommend adding your syllabus as a page in an orientation module and and so disabling the tool (run across the instructions under 2. Syllabus Tool equally a Canvas Content page).
  • Having all of the assignments displayed at the end of your syllabus may detract from other of import content y'all take in your syllabus. (You may instead desire to hide the Syllabus option from the carte and effort including your syllabus in one of the 2 ways described below.)


How-To Steps:

  • To use this tool, follow the directions on How do I use the Syllabus equally an instructor?
  • To learn how to brand further changes and edits to a syllabus, click on the following commodity: How do I edit the Syllabus Description?

Note: If the Syllabus tool is not visible to you equally the instructor, y'all may need to enable it past following the directions on How practise I manage Form Navigation links?

2. Syllabus equally a Sail Content Page

Using a Canvas page to display your syllabus is a great option. Information technology'southward similar to using the Syllabus tool, all the same, does not include the assignments beneath your content, which many prefer.

Benefits of this method:

  • Creates a friendly landing pad and confirmation that the pupil is in the right place.
  • You can easily edit your syllabus just similar yous would any other slice of content in your course.
  • Students can read the syllabus right on the folio instead of opening a certificate
  • Easier for students to read = more than probable to be read.
  • Fast corrections and updating for new semesters. No version control required; at that place is only always one version, ever bachelor.
  • Canvas displays and streams one version only--the one the Instructor controls--in real-time to students.

Drawbacks of this method:

  • Best for a Syllabus 1-two pages long. An Excessively long Syllabus can be disruptive to students on the homepage. To mitigate this, we recommend building your syllabus over multiple Canvas Content pages if information technology is over 3+ pages long.


How-To Steps:

You lot simply demand to create a folio, title it "Syllabus," and insert your syllabus content. Encounter the following guides for options to create a syllabus content page:

  1. How exercise I create a new page in a course? (Create a new folio if you oasis't already)
    1. Y'all can either manually blazon your syllabus content or copy and paste it from an existing document, such as a Word doc.
      1. Note on copying and pasting from an existing Give-and-take Physician/PDF:Sometimes a certificate may contain old-style typewriter habits such every bit spacing or tabs to heart text on and 8 1/ii" x eleven" paper will backlash and create odd gaps when transferred to whatever flexible display media similar Canvas. Corrections and format improvements may need to exist made in Canvas to display correctly.
  2. How do I set a Front end Page in a class? (The starting time page that displays when clicking Pages navigation tab.)
  3. How do I change the Course Home Page? (The default brandish for the Home tab is the grade activeness stream of messages.)

Additional Options:

iii. Syllabus as a File

Another way to add your syllabus is to just include it equally a file for your students to download or view on the folio. If you do this, we recommend using a PDF instead of a Word dr.. PDFs have a cleaner expect when opened and students are non able to edit them.

Benefits of this method:

  • Fast. Can use a WordDoc or .pdf.
  • Easy for students to view and locate when clearly labeled.
  • Preview auto-displays when students click, preventing accidental downloading.

Drawbacks of this method:

  • The downside to including your syllabus as a file is that yous can't edit information technology in Canvas. You take to edit the original file (wherever you lot stored information technology), upload the revised version, and and then link to this new file. This can crusade problems if students take already downloaded the syllabus, thus creating alien versions of your syllabus.
  • Instructors must exist prepared to manage the files area of the course efficiently, deleting former files, organizing materials for piece of cake admission and replacing syllabus each semester
  • Inconvenient for students viewing courses on small devices with express storage.
  • Version control is more complex and requires Instructors to have a better understanding of Canvas tools and blueprint.
  • More difficult to update from semester to semester.
  • .pdf is the hardest to update and it is highly appropriate to put both the .pdf and give-and-take doc version in Course Files.

Depending on how you introduce your syllabus to your students, it will look something like this:


How-To Steps:

See the following options to attach a syllabus file in Sail:

  1. How do I insert grade files into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector as an instructor? (Annotation: When you link a syllabus file, it will brandish by its file name).
    1. Notation: remember that you must beginning upload your file to your Canvas grade in society to link it to a page. To practise this, see How do I upload a file to a course?
  2. How practise I add assignment types, pages, and files as module items? (Using a WordDoc or .pdf file as a module item, motorcar-preview)

Points to consider:

  • There is more than one right way to postal service a Syllabus.  The of import thing is to provide access for your students.
  • SLCC Online recommends the to a higher place methods in order of preference based upon considerations for maintenance convenience, version control, and student usability.
  • We recommended content that includes the grade'southward common Catalogue name (in addition to the auto-displayed numerical code), an epitome (teacher photo or relevant photo/graphic/banner).
  • Remember to Relieve and Publish your syllabus in Canvas.
  • Accessibility: Think to utilise heading styles (i.eastward. Header 1, Header 2, etc.) when calculation titles to sections on a Canvas page or in a Word document. Calculation heading styles instead of simply increasing the font size will assist to clearly carve up upward the sections and arrive easier for screen readers to read.