14.3 Setting Up Success

Our students' perspective

 When will the syllabus be available?

Here is a video of a student who is constantly checking Canvas anticipating the syllabus.

Caption above the video:

me checking canvas 49259 times a day
seeing if professors
posted the syllabi early

Share your syllabus ASAP!

Did you know that you can publish your course, but share just your syllabus?

That's right. If you're not ready to share the rest of your content, but ready to share your syllabus, you can do just that! 

Read Canvas Support on How to publish your Syllabus Links to an external site.or follow the steps below:

  1. On the left side of the screen, in the course navigation, click Settings. Near the top of the screen, click Course Details.
  2. Scroll down the screen until you reach Visibility. Make sure Course is selected.
  3. Check Customize and set Syllabus to Public.
    Note: This step makes only the Canvas Course Syllabus public. No other course content will be visible. If you will be using Canvas to manage your course, you will still need to publish the course in order for enrolled students to see course materials.
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Update Course Details.

Or watch Mesa College's Instructional Designer, Katie Palacio demo: