Following extensive dialogue with various faculty, staff, and committees including the University Curriculum Committee, Antioch has purchased Simple Syllabus, a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish accessible class syllabi directly within the LMS and to the University Syllabus repository for record-keeping purposes. Simple Syllabus will help us:
Make all syllabi accessible to help our students and meet federal requirements,
Streamline the syllabus creation and approval process, saving faculty and staff valuable time, and
Create a syllabus repository, so each department doesn’t have to continue doing this work on their own.
While this will be required for all course syllabi, this shift is more than just a new tool. It is a commitment to a more inclusive and streamlined process. Feedback from faculty has helped us prioritize:
Simplification - Consolidating multiple fields to reduce redundancy.
Inclusive Language - Moving toward strengths-based language to ensure a welcoming environment for all students.
Customization - Automating core university policies and course details for efficiency and accuracy and creating department-level templates to provide structure. Instructors will have the flexibility to personalize their syllabus content and add custom sections.
Continuous Improvement - Establishing an annual review process to ensure the template and process evolve to meet our needs based on feedback from the Antioch Community.
Please keep an eye out for regular email announcements about the timeline and invitations to training sessions where we will walk through the specific syllabus creation, review, and approval workflows.
March/April: University Syllabus Template Development
April/May: Department Syllabus Template Development
June/July: Instructor and Approver Training;
PhDLC & MFA Syllabi go live.
August: Fall Semester Simple Syllabi Go Live
September: Fall Quarter Simple Syllabi Go Live
Training will be available to all employees. We will reach out to those programs going first and post recording and training resources here. Upcoming training will include offerings for:
Simple Syllabus administrators and support staff,
department-level syllabus template managers,
instructors,
department staff,
syllabus approvers,
and eventually students.
If you have questions about Simple Syllabus that are not addressed in the Frequently Asked Questions section below, please complete the form below and someone on the team will get back to you.