What’s a syllabus’ favorite game? Hide and seek—it hides all the answers, and students never seek. If you chuckled at this joke, you may find the comedy skills of MS Copilot an unexplored new hobby; if you groaned, blame AI. Jokes aside, I often hear from instructors that students do not pay enough attention to the course syllabus. Angela Andrews (Accounting) noticed this disappointing fact when she realized how much time she spent answering basic questions over email:… Read more »
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Posting Syllabi for Public Viewing
As you likely have heard, Indiana state law and IU policy ACA-85 require all IUB instructors to post their syllabi at least one week before classes start, and that the university needs to develop a mechanism for those syllabi to be publicly viewable. See the Start of Semester Guide from VPFAA for details on this… Read more »
How to Humanize Your Classroom Using an Inclusive Syllabus
This post was written by the CITL’s Madeleine Gonin and Emily Esola from the Kelley School of Business Introduction by Madeleine Gonin I have invited Emily Esola to share her approaches and experiences with writing inclusive syllabi. Emily and I will be co-facilitating a workshop on December 17 and January 8 where we will take… Read more »
How to Introduce Your Syllabus
I hope you enjoyed Dr. Sean Sidky’s previous blog post, Creating a warmer and more inclusive syllabus. Now that you have created your syllabus, how do you introduce it to students? Can you share the decisions you made in constructing the syllabus and designing the class? This transparency along with giving students input on parts… Read more »
Preparing Learning Outcomes for the Spring Semester
I hope that by the time you’re reading this, you’re fully enjoying winter break—spending time safely at home, perhaps trying out a new hobby (sourdough starter, anyone?), or getting caught up on some much needed sleep. As you slowly come out of winter break hibernation, you’ll likely start to think about the classes you’ll be… Read more »
Adding a Diversity and Inclusion Statement in your Syllabus
As you finalize your spring semester syllabus (or get started on it—no judgement here), you may want to put a diversity and inclusion statement in your syllabus. There is no standardized one-size-fits-all statement to use. These statements differ based on context (author, course content, course format). However, we can offer some advice and questions to… Read more »