Getting Started with Simple Syllabus
Simple Syllabus is UA’s new online syllabus platform. This article will guide instructors through the process of accessing, editing, and publishing their syllabus to the platform.
This is a guide for instructor users only.
Accessing your syllabus
There are three ways an instructor may access syllabi to complete and submit:
Through myBama on the Faculty and Advisors page.
Through UAs’ Simple Syllabus site at http://ua.simplesyllabus.com . All assigned syllabi would be on the Dashboard under 'Open Items'. To access the publisher from the open items' dashboard, simply click the pencil icon on the left-hand side of the listed item and begin editing the syllabus.
Through the instructors' course in Blackboard.
Add the Simple Syllabus link to your Blackboard Course
Blackboard Original course: Add a tool link to your course menu
Blackboard Ultra course: Add the Simple Syllabus link via the Content Market
Editing syllabus components
Once in the publisher, you will see your syllabus broken down into components, or groups of information. Required components will be outlined in orange and say ‘required’ in the bottom left corner, and they must have content input into them before the syllabus can be submitted.
Visit this article for more information about editing: Edit syllabus components
Importing content from another syllabus
Once you have built one or more syllabi in Simple, you may choose to import content from any of your previously submitted syllabi by clicking on the 'Replace with a different syllabus?' button at the top of the publisher.
View this article for more information: Import content from another syllabus
Save and Submit
All changes made to your syllabus will be automatically saved, but not published. Click Submit after all required components have been entered.
If the Submit button is greyed out, review the syllabus to ensure all required fields have been completed, otherwise, you will be unable to submit.