A "collaborative syllabus" is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course. Those specifics can be any element that a professor is willing to be flexible with ...

In my post today, I’m going to show you how to use GoogleDocs and Google Calendar to create a dynamic calendar for a course. This calendar can be displayed as a web page or embedded in a course web ...

Creating and sharing the syllabus at the onset of a course is an important component to help orient students. The following recommendations provide guidance on producing and sharing a high-quality ...

Back-to-school season arrives every year with a mixed bag of emotions for most educators, including anticipation and excitement, but also anxiety. The opportunity to catch up with friendly colleagues ...

Even if you don’t need to create a new course syllabus, there’s never a bad time to rethink an old one. In teaching, you spend a lot of time exhorting students to “read the syllabus.” So it’s ...

A syllabus has many audiences—department chairs, Core committees, colleagues—but it should serve students, its most important audience. A well-designed syllabus does much more than convey policies: ...

As we all rush to prepare our syllabi this August, as social media fills up with instructors lamenting how many hours they are spending and how impossibly long their syllabi are growing, we recommend ...

Getting students to read syllabi is a problem for instructors as old as the syllabus itself. Many professors have created activities to incentivize syllabus reading or planted “Easter eggs” within ...

Learn how to read the syllabus effectively for competitive exams and academic studies. Identify important topics, prioritize ...