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Web Based Syllabus Template Ezra Krumhansl Chief Information Officer
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Selecting a solution Faculty and course development staff requested a “user friendly” tool for creating a syllabus After asking what was wrong with Microsoft Word, a search for potential solutions revealed very few options. We looked hard at SALSA an open source solution developed at Utah Statehttp://salsa.usu.edu/. The code on github had some limitations and the professor behind SALSA wanted to charge for access to the source code.
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Selecting a solution cont’d We really did look at using Word and InfoPath and Sharepoint With our list of requirements, we determined that we would have to build a syllabus software. Some of the requirements we were asked to include were: pull course info from ERP, keep revision history, follow accessibility standards, and create archive of syllabi
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Tools Used Built on.NET in C# to run on a Windows Server Bootstrap web design platform (http://getbootstrap.com/)http://getbootstrap.com/ Text editor WYSIHTML http://wysihtml.com/http://wysihtml.com/ Connects to Ellucian using the Ellucian Web API to pull course information
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Development and Testing Many faculty participated in the development and testing Faculty who came to “Collaboratory” – faculty course development center on campus – were used as pilot for developing syllabus Usually faculty cut and paste information from old syllabus to Syllabus Assistant A number of changes were requested during testing
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Make It Feature Rich After launching the Syllabus Assistant Site, many new features were requested: Impersonate a user Share editing with another person Tabbed Syllabus PDF Version of Syllabus Allow users to create templates Copy syllabus forward to new course
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Other enhancements Password protection Lengthen “time out”, some faculty left edits too long without saving so changes were lost We added a login prompt if a session timeout to pick up where they left off There is also a warning about time out when it is approaching
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Other Considerations Standardizing syllabi helps part-time faculty who have never created a syllabus Students appreciate consistency in format Creating a repository of syllabi will help with departmental and SACSCOC accreditation Archiving syllabi will help faculty teaching a course for the first time or if a faculty member is replaced at the last minute
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Login Screen
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Home Menu
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Icons
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Sharing Syllabus
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Create Template
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Add Editor or Password Protect
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Questions? If you would like source code or have questions Ezra Krumhansl ekrumhansl@spalding.edu 502-873-4545
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