If you are creating your very first syllabus, there are a number of But if you’ve been teaching for a while, it’s more likely that rather than start from scratch, you’ll be pulling out an old syllabus ...

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Getting students to read syllabi is a problem for instructors as old as the syllabus itself. Many professors have created activities to incentivize syllabus reading or planted “Easter eggs” within ...

The first week of a semester, aka syllabus week, is a new, different and exciting experience for incoming freshmen. For most freshmen, it’s usually their first time attending school on their own, or ...

Imagine signing up to go on a really exciting trip. It could be roaming the savannahs of Africa, strolling the foothills of the Himalayas, or diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. You ...