Harvard Syllabus Explorer

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Welcome


Harvard Syllabus Explorer is a web application developed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning - Research Group.

Syllabus Explorer combines registrarial data and syllabi from Canvas to give users the ability to search for and download syllabi across Harvard.

This site provides an overview of the project.

Data

as of February 2020

6

Schools participating

17,000

syllabi

100,000

syllabi downloaded

120,000

site visits

140,000

keyword searches

Using syllabi for research

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Find out how Syllabus Explorer was built and the technology behind it.

Harvard Syllabus Explorer is developed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning in partnership with:

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard University Information Technology

Institute for Quantitative Social Science