I'd like to able to post my course syllabus on the main page of the class in a format that would be visible page by page. The students could access it and wouldn't even have to print it. It should allow for images and the basic capabilities of Word.
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Adam Sentz Official comment Populi courses now have a Syllabus tab which will, if you want it to, display your syllabus document.
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Brendan O'Donnell Jayson,
We haven't announced this yet, but you can do this very thing using a service called Scribd. If you start an account there, you can embed the Scribd document in a course Lesson; students can view the whole thing in the Lesson—page by page—and not need to print it. The only thing we can't accommodate is putting it on the Info tab, but other than that, looks like we have you covered.
All you need to do is copy-paste the Scribd URL into the body of the Lesson and you're good to go.
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Adam Sentz You could post it to the course Dashboard as well.
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Daniel Peterson I think the major request here is that it would be on the main page (i.e. first page that students see) The info page limits the amount of text you can include which can be frustrating. You can already post the whole syllabus as a link in the main page and you can post as much text as you want in a lesson. Scribd is a cool edition but I think it only reduplicates what can already be done with a PDF course syllabus. In other words I don't thing this should be marked done.
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Adam Sentz @Daniel - The first page a student sees in a course is the Dashboard. The Scribd integration makes is possible to view a syllabus document on this page.
The gist of this request seems, to me, to be the ability to view a syllabus document within a course in Populi without having to download it. The Scribd integration handles this so we marked it Done.
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Daniel Peterson Oh that does seem to make sense, but as posts are made on the dashboard won't that make the Scribd post go out of view? We were trying to put a getting started video in the dashboard but ran into this problem. I guess my issue may be more that the dashboard does not seem to be the best starting page for classes.
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Daniel Peterson Oh nice cup in your profile.
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Adam Sentz @Daniel - I get what you're saying and will definitely give it some thought. Thanks!
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Clint Nelson Can I echo @Daniel... there needs to be a permanent big button on each course dashboard page so that students can download/view the syllabus very easily... not have to scroll down the bulletin board or click 'info' then find it buried in a link or a lesson. The syllabus is the single most important document of every course and students need to be able to find it quickly and find it convenient to reference it throughout the semester. It bugs me that this is marked done (I understand it is in one sense, but in a way that satisfies the end user, it isn't). Should I start a new request?
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Jayson Grieser I tried Scribd and found it unworkable. I'm with Clint. I would like a big permanent syllabus button or some way of posting syllabus on the main page.
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Daniel Peterson It looks like this topic was unmarked as done. I am wondering should I re-submit this request or is it available for people to vote on again?
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Toby Robinson Daniel, it is currently available for people to vote and comment on.
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Josiah Stephan An actual tab within the class would make syllabus access very easy for students. It is difficult to continually have to train new students to find the syllabus in each of their classes.
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Protodeacon Joseph Appling We are also looking for this functionality. Some content from a complete Syllabus / Course Goals and Requirements document have identifiable fields in the Populi Course, but there is much more that is often included in these documents that doesn't seem to have an ideal home currently on Populi. More detailed descriptions, bibliographies, general introduction from the instructor, grading policies/weighting scale, etc.
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Jayson Grieser Here's an example of a syllabus tab that I'm still pining for. Not exactly like this, of course, but something like this.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-422-tragedy-fall-2002/syllabus/
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