Many of the decisions affecting the success of a course take place well before the first day of class. Careful planning at the syllabus design stage not only makes teaching easier and more enjoyable, ...

The College of Science (CoS) Brightspace course template offers several modifiable, pre-loaded common components to get your next course started, or to enhance an existing one. This template is a ...

Both minimalist and maximalist approaches to syllabus design have their proponents: concise syllabi are easier to navigate, while detailed ones offer a more precise picture of the course structure.

If Simple Syllabus is not visible in your left-hand course navigation, you will need to enable it via the course settings. Follow the instructions below to enable and make visible Simple Syllabus in ...

Faculty have a new platform for sharing information about the courses they teach. Course Insights is a new, easy-to-use syllabus archiving system where students and advisors can conveniently view ...

A common complaint from professors concerns students’ endless questions about topics that are covered on the syllabus. I have been teaching for over a decade and recall only one such incident. So ...

This course aims to introduce engineering students to the global context in which engineers are asked to operate in the 21 st century. The course also introduces students to system dynamics tools and ...

Administrators wanted a professor to pin-point when he would talk about sexuality in a public policy class. When he couldn’t, ...