Simple Syllabus
What is it?
Simple Syllabus is a tool designed to help educators create, manage, and share syllabi in a streamlined and user-friendly way. It allows for easy integration with learning management systems, offers customizable templates, and simplifies syllabus organization. This helps instructors save time, enhance collaboration, and provide a more organized learning experience for students.
How to Access
Instructors and students access Simple Syllabus within their Canvas Course via the left-hand course navigation. If Simple Syllabus is not visible in the course navigation, instructors can watch the video on how to enable Simple Syllabus opens a new website in their course or view the step-by-step tutorial for instructions on enabling and making visible Simple Syllabus.
Instructors can also access and edit their course syllabi via the Simple Syllabus website opens a new website where instructors will be prompted to log in with their UAB single sign-on (SSO) credentials.
FAQ
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- Open Chrome
- Click More Settings in the top right
- Click Privacy and security
- Click Third-party cookies
- Select Allow third-party cookies
The default font in Simple Syllabus is Helvetica 12.
It depends on if your courses are cross-listed and how many syllabi you need. Refer to the scenarios below:
- There is one course that is not cross-listed with another course.
- Use Simple Syllabus.
- There are multiple course sections cross-listed and all students should see the same syllabus regardless of the section they registered for.
- Use Simple Syllabus.
- Fill out the syllabus for the primary course section and not the other sections.
- There are multiple course sections cross-listed and there is a different syllabus for each section. Students should see the syllabus that matches the course section they registered for.
- Use Simple Syllabi.
- Fill out the syllabus for the all sections in the cross-listed canvas course so each has its own version.
Guides & Tutorials
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Video Tutorials
- Instructor: Quick Start Guide Instructors
- Instructor: Syllabus Visibility Control Instructors
- Instructor: Add/Reorder Components Instructors
- Instructor: Importing Content into a Syllabus Instructors
- Instructor: Visible/Invisible/Public/Private Toggles Instructors
- Instructor: Objectives Component Instructors
- Instructor: Materials Component Instructors
- Instructor: Content Component Instructors
- Instructor: Instructor Component Instructors
- The Instructor Dashboard Instructors
- Instructor: How to See Student Engagement Instructors