Engaging Students With the Syllabus

How can we be sure students are reading and understanding the syllabus?  The examples below depict strategies some faculty members use to help students engage with the syllabus early in the course.

• • • Sample Online Syllabus Quiz
      • Consider this Orientation Quiz from Dr. Abbie Brown here at ECU. It incorporates humor and helps share his personality in a distance education course. (To get the joke in question 3 you need to know that he is a man.)

• • • Scavenger Hunt

• • • Using “Easter Eggs” in your Syllabus (Easter egg is in the ‘extra credit’ section’)
    • Universal Design Learning Infographic Syllabus Walk Through Video

References

UDL On Campus. (2014, April 11). Syllabus Builder | Algebra 114 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSX43ZjG6S0