Posted at 2:22 p.m. June 11, 2019, by Emily Corse in Canvas
The easiest and most useful way to share your class syllabus with your students is to use the Canvas Syllabus tool and provide both a link (for downloading and printing) and an “automatic preview” so the students can see the text on the fly. How-to video follows these written instructions.
- Log into https://canvas.rutgers.edu
- From your course site, click Syllabus in the left-hand menu
- You’ll see a space for text at the top of the Syllabus page, with a Course Summary below
- Click Edit button at the top right
- Click in the editor box and type out some simple instructions for your students, such as: “Download or print syllabus from this link, or scroll down to preview document.”
Add link to file (Word or PDF, generally): on far right, choose File tab, and click the “+Upload a new course file” button- Now click the “Choose File” (or Browse) button, locate the file on your computer, and click the Upload button
- To ensure the students can see the preview (thus don’t have to download the document every time), select the new link, click the “Link to URL” button (on the editing toolbar, looks like a link of chain), and tick the “auto-open the inline preview” checkbox
- Click Update the link
- Click Update Syllabus
- To view your new syllabus, click Home on the left-hand menu, then Syllabus
- You should see your instructions for the students, the link to the syllabus file, and the preview of the document below