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Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus allows Instructors to complete those Syllabus Template Items for the course section. The Course Syllabus for a Course Section can be viewed by navigating to the Course Section Homepage and selecting Course Syllabus from the left-hand menu. If survey questions were copied from a Course Section in a previous Term, the copy details are displayed, including the last date of the copy and a hyperlink to the source of the copy.

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Administrators can enter information at the course level via the Syllabus Defaults page that will apply to all syllabi for sections of the Course. For the syllabus defaults to display at the course section level, they must be added to the associated course before course publishing.

  1. To complete Syllabus Template items for a Course Section, select Course Syllabus from the Course Section Homepage and click Edit. Clicking Reset will delete all syllabus data and will revert the content to the Course Syllabus defaults.

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    info The Course Syllabus can be exported to MS Word, PDF, or printed by clicking Export. Selecting Preview from the Export menu will display a preview of the course syllabus for review. The Copy URL option can be selected to copy the URL for the Syllabus. If the Enable Public URL for Syllabus setting is not enabled via Institution Course Settings, College Course Settings, or Department Course Settings, the recipient of the URL will be required to log into the platform to view the syllabus.

  2. The Template Designer will display; the assignment of Required, indicates that Instructors are required to complete the item, and the course section cannot be published if the required items are not completed by the Instructor.
    info A course can be published even if items marked as required are not completed by the Instructor at the Course Section level. To learn more about requirement configurations, the Syllabus Template Items article can be reviewed.

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    1. Instructors can add Course Section Learning Outcomes (CSLOs) as desired although CSLOs serve only as additional Instructor outcomes and cannot be used in Curriculum Mapping or Course Evaluations.
      info Admins can determine the maximum number of CSLOs allowed per Course Section as well as the character limit for the outcome description text via Course Section Course Learning Outcomes in Institution Course Settings, College Course Settings, or Department Course Settings.

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  3. Once edits have been completed, Save & Exit can be clicked.

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Syllabus Template items displaying a lock icon (as shown below) indicate that the information required for the item is imported from the data files that are sent to HelioCampus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why isn't the Student View option in Canvas not functioning?

Canvas Student View is not compatible with the HelioCampus Canvas LTI tool. This is because 'Student View' is not a real user account in the platform. When Canvas attempts to launch the Student View, the platform cannot authenticate the request because no matching user account is found.

To validate what students see, use the login as functionality for the student’s platform user account. While impersonating, to view the syllabus as a student would navigate to Course Section Homepage > Course Syllabus and select Preview from the Export menu. This impersonation launches the syllabus as an actual student user so the LTI tool can authenticate, and the syllabus will display as expected.

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📔 Additional Resources

Course Sections