Simple Syllabus provides plain text entry fields and a Rich Content Editor (RCE) to customize text formatting, apply heading structure, add rich media, or organize items into tables. 

The RCE toolbar in Simple Syllabus allows you to apply:

• Basic Formatting - Bold, italicize, or underline text. Apply subscript or superscript to characters and numbers.

• Rich Formatting - Select a different font family or font size. Apply color to text and backgrounds.

• Paragraph Formatting - Apply heading structure and alignment to text, or create an ordered or unordered list. You will also find the options to indent paragraphs or insert a quote to emphasize a block of text.

• Insert Objects - Insert a hyperlink; upload or link to an image; link, embed, or upload a video file; and insert a table. Emoticons are also available to insert into (or emphasize) text.

• Special Actions - Insert special characters, undo/redo an action, or clear formatting from selected text. Select the Help button [question mark icon] to view a list of keyboard shortcuts.

• Blocks - Insert a block of information that will be auto-populated with data from Banner feeds (instructor, section, and course information) as well as attributes within Simple Syllabus (term, subject, and college information).
  
  Banner feeds run twice a day at 1 AM and 1 PM, so allow approximately 12 hours for changes to the course schedule to reflect in Simple Syllabus.

Fields marked with a dashed border can have rich content applied to text when you select or highlight it with your cursor. These fields appear within the Instructor Information component [Office Location and Hours, Preferred Method of Communication, and Faculty Profile (CV)] and Materials component [Additional Information] of a syllabus.

If a component is required, a dark orange line will encompass the section for editors to easily identify areas that require their attention. Syllabi cannot be submitted without adding information into these required components.

If an editor submits a syllabus without entering information into a required component, the Submit button will be unavailable, and a list of the components requiring their attention will display. Select the component link to go back to that particular section and enter information.

Users in a Departmental Editor role will be responsible for adding information to a template prior to the syllabus due date:

• College-Level Templates- entered by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Success (or designee)
  • College Policies
  • College Priorities
• Department-Level Templates - entered by the Academic Chair, Program Coordinator, or Faculty Lead for the subject/course
  • Department Information
  • Program Policies (Optional)

Designated departmental editors can access template components through the Templates link [A] found within the navigation bar of their Simple Syllabus account. To begin, select the part-of-term for the template you wish to edit from the Term dropdown menu [B], then select the Edit button [pencil icon] next to your college or department's template [C].

In the editing interface, you can Copy + Paste text from an external document into required components, but you will need to re-apply formatting using the rich content editor. This is to ensure syllabus content is accessible to all users.

Additions or edits to template components will auto-save as you enter your information, and when you are ready for your changes to be published, scroll down to the bottom of your template and Submit your changes.

Users in an Instructor role will be responsible for adding section-level information to the remaining five components on a syllabus. Your Academic Chair, Program Coordinator, or Faculty Lead can provide guidance for what information to include in each of these sections, or you can choose to import content from another instructor's syllabus.

Select each header link below to view how to edit each of these components:

Comments are a place for Instructors and Departmental Editors to leave notes for themselves. This field is optional, and what you type here can only be seen by other editors at your level or the Simple Syllabus system administrators.

To use the comments, place your cursor into the plain text entry field and start typing. The notes will appear in the version History once you Submit the syllabus.

The History thread on a syllabus shows editors a list of previous changes to a syllabus since it was first published. The thread will only show you the submission history (and comments, if used) from other editors at your level.