We have a syllabus template already created for us via canvas that we are expected to use for both our face-to-face courses and our ones. We were told this semester that the one for our face-to-face courses would no longer be available from the commons area so we had to copy and use one from a previous f-t-f course. This has not worked out for me at least. Every time I save my syllabus, create a link for it on the home page, and then open it, the formatting is all messed up. I did have to do a lot of cutting and pasting of policies and such into this syllabus. I have gone back in several times and fixed the formatting errors, saved the changes as both a word document and as a download, and then added the revised doc as a new page in my course pages' listing. I then link the revised document to the home page. Once I click on it and open it, the previous formatting errors, i.e. additional spacing between words and lines, left alignment off, etc. are still there. I have attempted to fix everything several times now. I finally just removed the link and I'm relying on the syllabus that I have in the navigation menu (for student viewing purposes) as it presents itself correctly for the most part. Still, I wish I knew how to fix such things .
Hello there, Cheryl Brown...
Sorry to hear that you are having some difficulties with your syllabus file. When you are making edits to your file "offline", have you tried saving the Word document to a PDF file instead? Then you could try linking that PDF file in your course rather than the Word document. Converting your Word document to a PDF should keep most of the formatting options, so you might want to give that a try. Just a thought.