Sharing your Simple Syllabus in your Course
There are several ways to publish your syllabus in your Canvas course
Simple Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi.
Simple Syllabus can be accessed within Canvas or directly through the Simple Syllabus portal.
This is the standard method of accessing Simple Syllabus.
This is the standard method of accessing Simple Syllabus.
There are several ways to publish your syllabus in your Canvas course
You can move SimpleSyllabus to the top of your course navigation and hide the native syllabus tool in Canvas.
Note: Instructors and students must authenticate Simple Syllabus (either by clicking the Simple Syllabus navigation link or logging in directly to the Simple Syllabus portal)
Note: Instructors and students must authenticate Simple Syllabus (either by clicking the Simple Syllabus navigation link or logging in directly to the Simple Syllabus portal)
Simple Syllabus Knowledgebase
(Registration with your SMU e-mail address required.)
Support is available Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm. Support is accessible by the following methods:
Simple Syllabus makes the creation of syllabi convenient and efficient for instructors by providing a template with fields for all required and optional elements (eliminating the need to consult syllabus guidelines); accessing and updating of previous syllabi is easy, as are tools generating visually interesting syllabi that include images, audio, and video; much of the necessary information will be centralized and automatically pre-populated into syllabi templates.
While the use of Simple Syllabus itself is not required, the following three current requirements can be fulfilled by using Simple Syllabus in one single 10-minute session. For this reason, we encourage faculty to try out this tool as a way to reduce their administrative burden, because the Simple Syllabus tool makes these three tasks obsolete:
If you have questions or concerns, you may contact facultysuccess@smu.edu.
If you are teaching a course that is cross-listed, you will need to go directly to the Simple Syllabus portal and login in. From there, you can edit the syllabus for each section. Students will view the syllabus from the Simple Syllabus navigation link.
The content from your most recently submitted syllabus will automatically populate onto your current syllabus. If you prefer to start from a different syllabus than the one that auto-imported, you can click 'Replace with a different syllabus' at the top of the publisher to search for and import the syllabus of your choosing.
When you edit a syllabus, your changes will only apply to the specific syllabus that you that make the changes in, regardless of whether or not you are teaching other sections of the same course.
Yes! Once all the changes are saved, you can submit it again, and the most recent version will appear for your students and in the Simple Syllabus Library. All syllabi will display the "last updated" date.
Yes, Simple Syllabus allows instructors to track student engagement with syllabi using the student engagement feature. If you are working directly in Simple Syllabus, you can view the web version by navigating to the ‘Published’ tab, searching for your syllabus, and clicking ‘View’. If you are working in your LMS environment, you can simply navigate to the published syllabus in your LMS. The blue horizontal indicates the number of students that have viewed the syllabus (dark blue) and the number of students that have not viewed the syllabus (light blue).
Public means that SMU faculty and staff can see this information displayed in the Simple Syllabus Library when the syllabus is published. Private means that only the instructor and students in that particular course section can see the information when the syllabus is published.
Visible means that this component appears on the finalized version of the syllabus. Invisible means that the component is not displayed on the published version of the document. Note: Leaving a component blank will also render it invisible on the syllabus.
The current SMU syllabus repository will begin to sunset for archiving as the Simple Syllabus library continues to expand. The Simple Syllabus Library will be the university syllabus management system.