- Click on 鈥淢ontclair Syllabus鈥 from your Canvas course navigation.
- Click Edit聽to open edit mode.
Note: “Montclair Syllabus” is not functional in sandbox, template, or community course shells. Additionally, the Canvas “Student View” option is not fully compatible with “Montclair Syllabus” and is not recommended to preview your syllabi.
The 鈥淢ontclair Syllabus鈥 is broken up into components. The baseline syllabus template contains many helpful components which are distributed university-wide. Some departments or courses come with additional components by default. Many templated components can be modified; however, certain components, such as 聽鈥淯niversity Policies鈥 are locked and cannot be modified by the instructor.
Modify Options
The top left will contain three options:
- Add – add an additional component
- Reorder – change the order of components
- Preview – preview the syllabus
- Help – Simple Syllabus help and knowledge base
Help Text
Each component has 鈥淗elp text鈥 on the right-hand side. If 鈥淗elp text鈥 is hidden, click on the arrow to show the text.
Privacy and Visibility Options
Syllabus components also contain visibility options:
Visible – 鈥淰isible鈥 means that the component will appear on the finalized version of the syllabus if it contains content. This is set as the default. If you do not wish to show a component in the finalized version click to change to 鈥淚nvisible鈥.
Note: Leaving a component blank will also render it invisible on the syllabus.聽聽聽
Public – 鈥淧ublic鈥 means that Montclair鈥檚 faculty and staff can see this information displayed in the Simple Syllabus Library when the syllabus is published. 鈥淧rivate鈥 means that only the instructor and students in that course can see the information when the syllabus is published. The default is set to 鈥淧rivate鈥.
If the syllabus component has a text box you can type your information directly into the text box or copy and paste from another application.
If the syllabus component looks like the one below, click the pencil icon to edit the information in that field.
You can add additional components by clicking on the + Add new component at the bottom of the syllabus or + Add at the top of the syllabus.
Additional components can be named, reordered, and imported at your discretion.
