Examples of Simple Syllabus Training for Faculty

[LEASUSAN]

Hey, Canvas Community!

Happy Monday! We're in the process of implementing Simple Syllabus, and I'm wondering if anyone is willing to share the training assets they made for their faculty re: Simple Syllabus and Canvas. Anyone have a deck or a presentation outline? Any tips or lessons learned?

Thanks!

-Lea

[Jeff_F]

Hello @LEASUSAN - I hope you are having a great day of it! When we got going with Simple Syllabus our committee opted for some standard language (accessibility, plagiarism statements, all the laws, etc.) and locked that down into all the syllabi, and also opened up all the necessary editable areas for faculty to enter the objectives, required materials, grade scale, late policy, etc.

When we first went live use was required and we used Canvas Data to identify where Simple Syllabus was not visible on the menu and then used a flow to enable it in those courses. We also used CSS to rename 'Simple Syllabus' to 'Syllabus' and the Canvas 'Syllabus' tool to 'Summary'. And we disabled all the Summary pages.

Also, for training documentation, we created a set of six 1-2 minute Studio hosted screen recordings.  (I just noted that the team didn't create transcripts or closed captioning so I'll be following up with them on that.)

One trick I have to gathering examples of training documentation is to perform a web search using the following terms:

• "simple syllabus training file:.pptx site:.edu" 
• "simple syllabus training file:.pdf site:.edu"
• or omit the '.edu' to open it up to .com, etc.

Hope this helps!!