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From the course: Teaching with LinkedIn Learning

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Uploading your syllabus

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- The syllabus is the roadmap your students need to be successful in your course. It contains all the major themes of your class. It lists the key resources, the key books, the key assignments and even due dates. Often it has class policies and your contact information in it. So making your syllabus highly accessible can be incredibly beneficial to students, yet many of us only post the syllabus to a learning management system or worse yet, only hand out a paper copy the first day of class. Now with some LMS's or learning management systems such as Moodle or Blackboard do have mobile apps. Many don't. And today, a lot of our students are accessing course information on their phones. Uploading your syllabus to LinkedIn Learning and providing links to the Syllabus in your LMS opposed to the traditional download file will allow your students to quickly access the syllabus from any device, mobile or desktop. When students access a PDF on LinkedIn Learning, they can view the content directly on the webpage without having to download the document first, and that's a workflow that all students will appreciate when they're trying to balance the requirements of multiple classes and multiple syllabi. There's a few other benefits to uploading your syllabus to LinkedIn Learning. First, students at your institution that are not enrolled in your course will now be able to find and review your course syllabus. That will allow them to make a better determination if your course is right for them or what to expect in your course before they sign up to take it. This is a great way to set student expectations early and encourage students to review the syllabus, requirements and timelines before choosing to take your course. When you only upload your syllabus to an LMS, students have to be enrolled to see it, so their only exposure to your class is that little blip that's published in the course catalog or what you put on the course website. Second, students can access your syllabus after they've taken your class, and as students move throughout their academic career, they're likely to want to reference previous course material. Since many courses these days utilize materials outside of a standard text book, students can look up a previous syllabus to find links to articles, online lessons and even websites from courses they've taken. And they can use this material as they move throughout the rest of their academic career.

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