Course Syllabus

Contact Information

This table includes information about how to contact your instructor and other important details about your class

	Office Hours: 🚩 Phone: 🚩 Email: 🚩 Live Session: 🚩🚩 day/time (Central) 🚩🚩 Zoom link: 🚩 Meeting ID: 🚩 Passcode: 🚩
🚩Instructor Name 🚩 🚩Official Title 🚩 🚩Department 🚩

 🚩🚩 **The instructor should create a profile in Canvas for students' reference. This can include a photo (most important), bio, areas of research interest, awards/achievements, publications, etc. 🚩🚩

Course Details

For a list of course activities, scroll to the bottom of this page.

Course Prerequisites 

 🚩🚩 Add text about required prerequisites or change the heading to "Assumed Prior Knowledge" and add info about skills and knowledge students should refresh for your course. Delete the section altogether if not applicable 🚩🚩

Course Materials

🚩🚩 Add titles of required textbook(s), software, subscriptions, proctoring fees, equipment, and/or other resources. Provide additional information on the RESOURCES: Course Materials page  🚩🚩

Grades

Breakdown

 🚩🚩 Add breakdown of graded items and the points/percentage associated with each activity 🚩🚩

Course activities and grades listed for each activity

Activity	Description	Points/Percentage
	Total

Scale

🚩🚩 Add grading scale. Will you grade on a curve? Are grade ranges typical A-90+ B-80+ C-70+ etc? 🚩🚩

Grade Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
90–100%	A
80–89%	B
70–79%	C
60–69%	D
Below 60%	F

Course Components

 🚩🚩Course Component 1 (e.g. Case Study) 🚩🚩

 🚩🚩 Describe each of the major activities in the course and a brief rationale. 🚩🚩

 🚩🚩Course Component 2 (e.g. Discussion Board) 🚩🚩

 🚩🚩 Describe each of the major activities in the course and a brief rationale. 🚩🚩

 🚩🚩Exams 🚩🚩

🚩🚩 Provide a brief description of exam requirements such as exam format, academic integrity expectations, etc...  🚩🚩

Course Policies

Communication 

 🚩🚩 How do you want students to contact you? Do you prefer to be contacted through Canvas or by email? Give students an estimate of when you will reply. Usually 24 hours M-F. Will you check emails over the weekend?

How do you prefer to be addressed (Professor, Dr., by your first name, etc.)? Clearly explain your role and expectations for how you would like students to interact with you and others. This may be especially helpful for learners needing encouragement to "speak up". 🚩🚩

Feedback 

 🚩🚩 Please tell students when they can expect feedback and grades on their activities and assignments. You should aim for a one-week turnaround on most assignments.  🚩🚩

Late Policy

 🚩🚩 Add information about your late policy or missed work. Will you accept late work? If so, will there be a penalty? 🚩🚩

Plagiarism 

 🚩🚩Plagiarism is the most common form of academic misconduct at OU. There is no college-level assignment that can be satisfactorily completed by copying. OU's basic assumption about writing is that all written assignments show the student's own understanding in the student's own words. That means all writing assignments, in class or out, are assumed to be composed entirely of words generated (not simply found) by the student, except where words written by someone else are specifically marked as such with proper citation. Including other people's words in your paper is helpful when you do it honestly and correctly. When you don't, it's plagiarism. 

For more information about plagiarism, watch this video and then take this short course offered by University Libraries. 🚩🚩

University Policies Instructions (for Instructional Designers)

 🚩🚩 This version of the template includes the new embedded Google doc for university policies that was designed for template 3.0 courses. If you need to update older courses that do not have the Google doc, see the following instructions: 

1. Locating the new code
   1. Ensure you have a copy of the syllabus template on hand with the embedded Google doc (located in template 3.0 or 2.0)
   2. Copy the code for the embed by opening the HTML editor, and scrolling down to the end of the code. It starts after the last line on the page (<hr />).
2. Deleting old information
   1. Open the course you would like to update, and navigate to University Policies in the Rich Content Editor
   2. Highlight and delete the entire University Policies section
3. Adding new code
   1. Navigate to the HTML editor in the course you want to update, and scroll down to the end of the code
   2. Paste the new code from the template
   3. Verify that the embed works properly in the Rich Content Editor, and click save  🚩🚩

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University Academic Policies and Student Support

Access the University Academic Policies Document.