teaching – Teaching & Learning https://blogs.jccc.edu Johnson County Community College Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:03:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 91413655 Tip! Canvas Syllabus Template https://blogs.jccc.edu/2023/06/29/canvas-syllabus-template/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:16:52 +0000 http://blogs.jccc.edu/?p=6129 The JCCC Ed Affairs Committee has created a new syllabus template for all credit courses. Ed Tech has created an accessible HTML version of this template for use in Canvas classes. The content can be copied from a page in the Center for Teaching and Learning community and pasted into the Syllabus tool in your course. This way, you will have an accessible Syllabus for your Canvas courses that is easy to update and import from semester to semester.

Copy and Paste into your Syllabus tool

  1. Find the template source page in the CTL community in Canvas.
  2. Select the entire body of the template source page.
  3. Copy the selection (via [Ctrl]+[C] or right-click > Copy or menu > Edit > Copy).
  4. Enter your Canvas course and open the Syllabus tool.
  5. Click the Edit button toward the top right.
  6. Paste the selection from Step 3 (via [Ctrl]+[V] or right-click > Paste or menu > Edit > Paste).
  7. Remove the instruction block at the top, replace any [[bracketed]] text with the appropriate information, and make any other additions as needed.
  8. Click the Save button to the right below the editing box.

To Import via Commons

You can also import the template source page itself from the Canvas Commons.

screenshot of Canvas Commons page with import button circled

Click the Import/Download button. A sliding menu will open – select your course and then click on Import.

This will add the template source page as a page in your course, which you can edit and present to students as you would any other page. If you want the content to appear in the body of the course Syllabus tool, you’ll still have to go through the steps above. You’ll just be performing steps 2-3 on your own copy instead of the copy in the CTL community.

 

]]> 6129 Tip! – Why Use a Home Page? https://blogs.jccc.edu/2023/02/14/tip-why-use-a-home-page/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:03:37 +0000 http://blogs.jccc.edu/?p=5942 The Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows are talking about it and you should definitely be thinking about it. Why create a home page at all? Let’s talk about cognitive load and what having a home page should do. Paul has a great video discussing the WHY of having a home page.

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