Hi everybody! I'm not sure if this should be a question or a discussion, but I am wondering if there are examples out there of schools, especially universities, that use Canvas to distribute a kind of campus-wide syllabus with policies that the administration wants us to include on our syllabuses. On Wednesday (AFTER classes have started, and syllabuses are already printed for those who print them and teach on Monday or Tuesday), we got an email containing the letter below with the boilerplate kind of language they are suggesting we put on our syllabuses. Personally, that kind of bureaucratic language does not fit into my syllabus, but I understand its importance, and it seems to me there could be something like a "Campus Syllabus" in addition to the "Course Syllabus" which could be integrated into Canvas. So now I'm wondering if other schools do that...?
Hi Laura,
We don't have a campus wide policy but we do have a departmental policy that we have struggled with for years. We tried putting it into Canvas but found getting permissions for those that needed to edit it to be a pain. We hosted it as a page on a separate web server but, once again, controlling the editing was a pain. This year we created a Google Team Drive and then put those documents up on the Team Drive and granted access to the admin folks that needed to edit and maintain the documents. Now we just link out to those from the Canvas syllabus page. I just got tired of being asked to update those policy pages so now somebody else gets to do it that actually deals with the policies. Hope this helps :-)