Syllabus

Syllabi can be edited by users with the following MyLEARN roles:

• Instructors
• Admins in course repositories
• Course editors

Only the head of an academic unit has the option of adding members as course editors, so that people with this role have admin rights to all courses in their academic unit and can edit the syllabus.

Please note:

• The course annotation process for entering course information is separate from the course announcement process. After announcing your course, you can annotate it with course information at a later point directly on MyLEARN.
• You can copy and adapt the syllabus of a past course
• If there is a course repository, it is sufficient to have one syllabus that can be used for all parallel courses and managed centrally in a single place

By default, you can find the syllabus under “Inform” in the left-hand side menu in every course repository and every course. If you click on “Syllabus,” you’ll first see the page like it is shown to the students. Usually, the syllabus will be empty for a newly created course repository or course. You can fill in the empty fields.

1. In the left-hand side menu, click on “Syllabus”.
2. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Syllabus” and then on “Manage”.
3. Click the “Edit” icon for the field you’d like to fill in.
4. Fill in the required field “Publicly accessible information”.
5. Optionally, fill in the additional field.
6. Click on “Save”.

Changes to the syllabus are not published automatically. You have to publish them manually.

You can copy the syllabus from a course that is part of the same module.

1. Click on “Syllabus” in the left-hand side menu.
2. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Syllabus” and then on “Manage”.
3. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Actions” and then on “Copy from course”.
4. Select the appropriate course from the course list.
5. Click on “Save”.

By default, all fields of the target course syllabus will be overwritten with the contents from the source syllabus. If you don’t want to overwrite the fields, you can disable them before copying the syllabus.

Changes to the syllabus are not published automatically. You have to publish them manually.

If you copy a syllabus from a course repository or a course to a different course, by default all contents in the target syllabus fields will be overwritten. However, you can disable specific fields to prevent them from being overwritten.

1. In the left-hand side menu, click on “Syllabus”.
2. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Syllabus” and then on “Manage”.
3. In the horizontal menu bar, click on “Actions” and then on “Disable fields”.
4. In the table, select all the fields that you don’t want to overwrite.
5. Click on “Save”.

If you disable or overwrite fields, these changes apply both to the public course catalog field and to the additional MyLEARN field shown to members only, except for the “readings” and “unit details” fields. In these two fields, you can add entries individually by clicking the plus icon and provide different information in the course catalog text and the MyLEARN text.

To copy and paste text from Word or another word processing software to a syllabus, you can use simple keyboard shortcuts.

1. Open the source document from where you’d like to copy the text.
2. Highlight the text you’d like to copy.
3. Press the key combination CTRL + C (Windows) or Command key + C (Mac).
4. In LEARN, click on the editor field where you would like to paste the text.
5. Press the key combination CTRL + V (Windows) or Command key + V (Mac) to paste the content as text or press CTRL + Shift + V (Windows) or Command key + V (Mac) to paste the content as text without formatting.
6. Make any changes that may be required or edit the formatting.
7. Click on “save”.

Of course, you can also create and format texts using the editor.

The syllabus contents are only displayed in the course catalog and on MyLEARN if you publish them. Fields highlighted in red indicate that changes have been saved but not published yet.

1. In the left-hand side menu bar, click on “Syllabus”.
2. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Syllabus” and then on “Manage”.
3. In the horizontal menu bar, first click on “Actions” and then on “Publish”.
4. Click the button “send”.

When you’re done, please double-check all fields where you have made any changes. Fields that have been published successfully are highlighted in green.

read!t supports you as a course teacher, course administrators and tutors in creating reading lists quickly and easily for your students. Information on activation, creating and editing reading lists can be found here.

If you’ve copied and pasted a text from Word or another text processing software, you may have inadvertently copied some hidden HTML code as well. This code may have changed the formatting in the MyLEARN editor.

In such cases, you can either clean up the source code of the pasted text manually or paste the text using the editor buttons

 or the corresponding key combinations.

Maybe you’ve saved the changes but haven’t published them. Please see item "How can I publish a syllabus?" to check if this is the case.

This may be caused by different issues:

Cause 1: The course whose syllabus you’d like to copy is connected to a course repository, but the new target course is unconnected. OR vice-versa: The course whose syllabus you’d like to copy is unconnected, but the new target course is connected to a course repository. Once you have connected the course to the correct course repository or disconnected it, you’ll be able to copy the syllabus.

Cause 2: You may be trying to copy the syllabus of a course that is not part of the same module as your course. In such cases, it is not possible to copy the syllabus. You can only copy syllabi from courses that belong to the same module.