Simplify syllabi processes for faculty
Improve your faculty’s experience creating syllabi with custom templates, forms, and workflows that guide them through the process. Then, pull in data from your underlying catalog and curriculum database, including course descriptions, pre-reqs and co-reqs, learning outcomes, and required policies. When faculty enter the syllabus builder to make edits, all they have to do is fill in course-specific information like reading materials and office hours, saving them time.
Ensure quality and consistency for students
The syllabus serves as the course roadmap and contract between professor and students. Shouldn’t it be easy for students to access and understand the syllabus for every course they take on campus? Easily create and publish syllabi in a consistent, standardized format that enables students to quickly identify important information—like required materials, learning outcomes, and institutional policies—to guide their academic decisions.
Consistent syllabi, rich insights
Create a more effective, transparent syllabus process across your campus
Simple templates & forms
Create templates with fields for every piece of information your faculty needs to include on course syllabi, then simplify the syllabus creation process with intuitive forms and pre-populated data from your curriculum and catalog database.
Custom workflows
Design custom workflows aligned with your institutional review processes. Conditional logic and branching support even the most complex processes and enable faculty to easily track the status of their submitted syllabus proposals.
Accreditation reporting
Avoid the “self-study scramble”! With all your syllabi managed in one central location and unlimited archiving, you can readily ensure alignment with accreditation standards and export current and historical syllabi for accreditation reporting.
Audit trails & tracked changes
Faculty and administrators can easily view audit trails to see edits made to syllabi, saving them time searching through historical documents, ensuring version control, and increasing transparency in the review process.
Secure permissions
Faculty spend their careers evolving course syllabi, and our system helps you keep their intellectual property safe. Robust permissions enable you to control who has access and how and where syllabi are published through our secure, cloud-based system.
Flexible reporting
Simple dashboards enable administrators to quickly get a snapshot of all active syllabi, search and filter proposals, generate progress reports, and export syllabi for accreditation reporting, distribution to students, and more.
Quality, branded syllabi
Each syllabus is a small artifact of the educational experience at your institution. Ensure that your syllabi effectively communicate your values with consistent quality, standardized formatting, and custom institutional branding.
A central repository
Archive current and previous versions of syllabi so students and alumni can demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes when seeking transfer credit or applying for graduate school, and you can provide accreditation reporting.
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