Saves you time: The required text and boilerplate policies pre-populated. You only need to add in your course-specific content such as instructor information and weekly course schedule.
Allows for personalization: The pre-filled content is just the base of the syllabus. Each instructor can add additional components as needed.
Integrates directly with Brightspace: You can edit a syllabus as many times as you need to during the term, with published updates automatically visible from your Brightspace course site.
Serves as a dynamic and accessible repository: Simple Syllabus holds all syllabi in a central repository, links them to their corresponding Brightspace courses, and helps make them searchable, accessible, and downloadable in multiple formats for students and instructors.
If you need help, you can either use the question mark icon in the lower left of the Simple Syllabus screen to submit a ticket to Simple Syllabus, or you can email SimpleSyllabus@antioch.edu.
When you teach the same course again, all of the information from the original version is automatically imported from the last time you taught it, so you only have to build the syllabus once.
If another instructor taught this course previously, you can import some or all of their syllabus components to start with what they’ve already built.
It’s useful to have two monitors when you need to copy and paste from your original syllabus into your Simple Syllabus.
However, if you don't have 2 screens, there are instructions below on using Split Screen to make it easier to copy and paste.
If it is available, go to your Brightspace course and click Syllabus on the toolbar; or
Log in to AUDirect and click the Simple Syllabus button in the Services pane on the left sidebar.
For syllabi that open in Microsoft Word or a PDF Reader, just open the file on your computer.
If you have a Google Doc or PDF syllabus that opens in a web browser, use the Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + N (or Cmd + N on a Mac) to open a new window. Then navigate to your syllabus.
Do you know how to quickly arrange your windows side-by-side on one screen?
On a Windows desktop computer / PC, the split screen-enabling feature is called Window Snap. Their overview page has detailed instructions as well as a short video tutorial, but here are two quick-start options:
Drag a window to the left or right edge of the screen to snap it to that side; or
Use a keyboard shortcut
Windows key + Left arrow moves the window to the left side of the screen.
Windows key + Right arrow moves the window to the right side of the screen.
On a Mac computer, the split screen-enabling feature is called Window Tiling. Their overview page has instructions as well as a short video tutorial on tiling, but here are two quick-start options:
Drag a window to the left or right edge of the screen to snap it to that side; or
Use a keyboard shortcut
Fn + Control + Right Arrow moves the active window to the left half of the desktop.
Fn + Control + Right Arrow moves the active window to the left half of the desktop.
Note: Once you have the two windows side by side, you may need to close or minimize side menus for a better view of the content you are working with.
*Note for advanced users: When you have your previous syllabus and Simple Syllabus open in two tabs in the same web browser window, you can try out Split Screen for Google Chrome. If you find yourself in this situation and want to stick to the method above, you can create a second, separate window by clicking and holding one tab, dragging it out away from the tab bar, and releasing it.
Check out our 30-minute Simple Syllabus Antioch Instructor Training 101
and our 30-minute Simple Syllabus Instructor/Approver Training 101 Video.