SPEAKER: And the next thing
I want to talk to you about
is the syllabus tool in Canvas.
I know you all know
what the syllabus.
But I want to talk
to you about why
it's its own item
in your navigation,
and what it's doing
in the background.
So if you click on your
syllabus link in your course.
You see that mine is running.
It's showing that it's running.
It's polling data.
What it's going to do in
that course summary space
is it's going to pull in
anything that's an assignment.
So anything that students
have to turn in or do
is going to show
up automatically
in your course summary.
So the things that
will show up here
are assignments, quizzes,
and also discussions.
So they will
automatically show up here
as you're building
them in your course.
There's nothing that
you need to do to get it
to come to your course summary.
The other thing that will
show up in your course summary
section of your
syllabus are events that
are attached to that course.
So if you've created an
event to remind students
about office hours
or the first time
they need to post on
a discussion board,
those will also show up here
in your summary of your course.
They show up in date order.
So it's important that you
know how this works, simply
because anything that's
undated will show up
at the bottom of
your course summary.
So if it does not
have a date, it
will live on the bottom
of your course summary,
with all the other
undated items.
I'll show you the syllabus
in this course that
has a lot of assignments.
So the summary in here--
it's going to start with the
first thing that was due.
Those are going to be active
links for the students.
So if they're using
My Syllabus Page
to access things in
My Course, they're
going to link right to there.
This is showing you here that
those are their events that
also are showing up.
So I put a reading assignment
in there for my students
and also office hours.
Just going to scroll
down to let you
see that this can
become pretty long
over the course of a semester.
Anything that's updated in
the course will go there--
down to the bottom--
which is another
reason why if you know
you have a lot of undated
things in your course
that the naming convention
is also important.
So that this is just how it
appears for your students.
Now if you change a
date in your course
or if you change a
date on the calendar,
the three environments
work together.
So the calendar, the course
summary of your syllabus,
and your course just
automatically gets updated.
So you change it in any of
them, and it updates here
on your course summary.
You're going to see that
there's an edit pencil up
here at the top.
So you can customize
this section.
So this is your
syllabus description.
What I see a lot of
instructors do here
is they put in a welcome video.
They say where their
office is located.
They say the best
way to be contacted.
Sometimes, they say make sure
you have notifications turned
on for announcements because
I'm going to definitely
be using them.
So here's where you can
customize your syllabus area.
I'm going to scroll
back up to the top.
You can see that I have
the link right here
to my static syllabus.
I've uploaded it
into my file space,
and my students can
see it and download it
because some students like
to have that paper link,
and they still want that.
I've also linked to other
tools they might need,
the assignments tracking
sheet for my course,
and then I have a little
video in there of Ray Bradbury
because this is a course
about Fahrenheit 451.
So you do have that
syllabus description box
up there at the top with
the rich content editor
and the content selector.
So you can customize the
top of that syllabus space.
It's just the bottom
part that's going to be
that self-populating syllabus.
