The Montclair Syllabus is a template, updated each semester, that ensures instructors provide all the essential elements for their students in a consistent way. This enables students to understand the expectations for each course they are taking and helps them find the information they need more easily. Many Montclair students report that they have trouble finding the information they need, often because their instructors organize their syllabi differently. The Montclair Syllabus contains links to campus resources that are updated regularly so that you can direct students to them without needing to research them yourself or discover that links you’ve copied and pasted from past semesters no longer work.
For Fall 2024 Montclair campus courses, the Montclair Syllabus is available in Canvas in two forms: a static version labeled “Syllabus” and a dynamic version labeled “Montclair Syllabus.” For Fall 2024, both options will appear in the Canvas left-navigation menu. To prevent student confusion, choose only one of the syllabi options to use, and adjust your course’s Canvas navigation settings so that only the syllabus option you are using remains. For instructions see Configure Simple Syllabus In Canvas or contact ITDS.
For Fall 2024 Bloomfield campus courses, the Montclair Syllabus is available in Canvas in a dynamic version labeled “Montclair Syllabus.”
To work on your syllabus first in a Google Doc and then copy and paste into the online template, choose your version below:
The Montclair Syllabus and Simple Syllabus
The dynamic “Montclair Syllabus” uses Simple Syllabus. The Simple Syllabus tool further enhances instructors’ ability to provide a clear, organized syllabus by offering some pre-loaded content, including course information and resources that update as needed. It creates its own easy-to-navigate table of contents that allows students to find the information they need efficiently. Faculty and students who piloted its use rate this new syllabus very highly. Curious? See this example: SP24 model course.
Note: If you “course copy” from a previous semester, be aware that this will overwrite the new template unless you either selectively course copy or enable the course syllabus in the navigation after you perform the course copy.
For more information on the new syllabus template that instructors are asked to use in Fall 2024, see [Provost Communication May 6, 2024 allusers] New Syllabus Template for Fall 2024
Want a how-to video? Watch Courtney Crimmins’s short video — and yes, you can do it in about 10 minutes.
Additional information and assistance
For more information about Simple Syllabus
- see ITDS for workshops, 1-1 support, and asynchronous guidance.
- view these slides: Need to Know_ Simple Syllabus Presentation
For more help writing your syllabus
- see Write Your Syllabus Right
- use OFE’s Syllabus and Assignment Review service.
Last Modified: Monday, June 3, 2024 3:33 pm