Title: Required Syllabus Information
Course: BTEC-1300-301-302-303-F21

Syllabus information mock-up sent by David Hubert on May 4, 2018.

SLCC syllabus website (updated 4/20/17)

Letter from David Hubert sent on 5/4/18:

As you update syllabi for Summer, all the institutionally required information you need is on this site: https://faculty.slcc.edu/orienting-faculty/syllabus.aspx.  You can copy and paste from that site into your syllabus and the various hyperlinks should work. Note that you must make students aware of the following:

- The DRC statement.
- The Student Code of Conduct statement.
- The Title IX statement.
- The links in the Important Information for Students section (from that heading all the way down to the bullet about the Academic Achievement Center).

How you organize and present the information is up to you. I’ve attached a mock-up in Word that you may find helpful. I call the whole thing “Important Information for Students” and then list each one in its own section.

This summer eLearning will be working on a templating tool in Canvas that will allow us to have an “institutional syllabus” and a “course syllabus” section in each Canvas shell. The “institutional syllabus” section could have all this information and you wouldn’t have to worry about updating it, and I could stop sending out these emails. Stay tuned for that.

From a September 2017 letter:

While I’m at it, two other things pertaining to General Education courses:

- The General Education Committee would like to give faculty more flexibility in how they represent ePortfolio in the syllabus. Faculty may paste into the syllabus the attached ePortfolio statement and then identify the signature assignments and reflection in the course requirements section of the syllabus. Alternatively, if faculty have a different—but clear and effective—way to inform students of the ePortfolio requirement [signature assignment(s) and reflection], the Committee is fine with them using that language.
- The General Education Statement is no longer required. The Important Information for Students statement (see above) has a link to the General Education webpage anyway. For now I’m leaving the General Education Statement on the link at the top of this email, but we should be moving in a new direction with respect to all General Education courses that will better accomplish what the old Gen Ed Statement was timidly designed to do. Since General Education is a program, and since we would like students to understand it as a coherent, foundational experience, faculty who teach Gen Ed courses should discuss with students:
  - That this is a General Education course,
  - Where in our General Education program this course fits,
  - What the course’s designation (e.g., SS, LS, HU) means, and
  - How the ways of knowing and habits of mind in that academic field are similar to and different from others in General Education.

I encourage faculty to explore innovative ways to do those things in their General Education courses.  I’ve done this in traditional and online courses. It doesn’t take much time, but makes a positive difference in student awareness of General Education.

— David Hubert

2016-2017 General Education ePortfolio Syllabus Statement—

Each student in General Education courses at SLCC maintains a General Education ePortfolio. Instructors in every Gen Ed course will ask you to put at least one assignment from the course into your ePortfolio, and accompany it with reflective writing. It is a requirement in this class for you to add to your ePortfolio, and this syllabus details the assignments and reflections you are to include. Your ePortfolio will allow you to include your educational goals, describe your extracurricular activities, and post your resume. When you finish your time at SLCC, your ePortfolio will then be a multi-media showcase of your educational experience. For detailed information visit: http://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio or http://eportresource.weebly.com

Starting Fall 2016, all students new to SLCC will use Digication as their ePortfolio platform.  Any students who have created ePortfolios prior to Fall 2016 on other platforms will be allowed to continue using those sites. For Digication tutorials, please go to the following site:

https://slcc.digication.com/slcc_digication_tutorials/Welcome/

If you would like in-person help with your ePortfolio please visit an ePortfolio Lab on the Taylorsville-Redwood, Jordan, or South City Campus during business hours, and staff will help you. No appointment necessary. For lab hours and locations please look at the following site: http://eportresource.weebly.com/lab-information.html

Questions regarding the ePortfolio can be directed to Emily.Dibble@slcc.edu.