The Canvas Syllabus tool is a useful way to articulate your course objectives, structure, and expectations to prospective students during enrollment and students enrolled throughout the semester. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate various ways you may want to add your course syllabus content to Canvas.
When you post your syllabus and publish your course in Canvas, your syllabus will become available in Yale Course Search. Users should expect to see a course's Syllabus link appear in Yale Course Search within 4 hours of posting the syllabus and publishing the Canvas course.
During registration periods, the Yale Course Search sync to create and share syllabus links is reduced to 3 times a day.
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This article will address the following information:
Video Tutorial for Editing Syllabus Materials
Editing Text in the Syllabus
- Click "Syllabus" in the course navigation.
- Select the "Edit" button in the top-right corner.
- In the Rich Content Editor (RCE) text box, you can add, delete, and edit any text in the Expanded Course Description that may already be populated in your Syllabus page or that you've added / imported already.
- When done, click the "Update Syllabus" button below the Rich Content Editor.
Copying and Pasting Content
- Click "Syllabus" in the course navigation.
- Select the "Edit" button in the top-right corner.
- You can paste content from Word documents or other files directly into the Rich Content Editor by right-clicking and selecting paste once you have copied the text / content to your computer's clipboard.
Use the CTRL+C (Command+C for Macs) keyboard shortcut to copy text to your computer's clipboard. Then use the CTRL+V (Command+V for Macs) keyboard shortcut to paste the text into the Rich Content Editor.
- When done, click the "Update Syllabus" button below the Rich Content Editor.
Inserting a Link to a Course Document
- From the "Syllabus" page click the "Edit" button to open the Rich Content Editor textbox of the Syllabus page and find the "Document" icon in the editor ribbon.
- Choose "Course Documents" if you have already uploaded the syllabus file to the Files section of Canvas.
- From the sidebar that opens, find your syllabus file and click it in order for it to be added to the syllabus page as a link.
- When done, click the "Update Syllabus" button.
Uploading a New Course File
- To insert a link to a Syllabus document that you do not already have uploaded into your Files area, open the "Syllabus" page, click the "Edit" button, and select the "Document" icon in the Rich Content Editor ribbon.
- Choose "Upload Document".
- You can either drag and drop your syllabus file, or browse your computer to select your document.
- Once you have selected your file, click the "Submit" button to see the file appear in the editor.
- When done, click the "Update Syllabus" button.
For more information about the Syllabus tool:
To learn more on how to write an effective syllabus:
- Poorvu Center. Syllabus Design
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