• Instructional alignment- flow from content assessment (make objective clear)   

• Make "nuts and bolts" for the course clear from the start. Let students know what is required and provide expectations   

• Use a student-friendly voice (tone)   

• Make objectives measureable (students don’t always read the syllabus). Objectives should be measurable, behavioral, and observable.   

• Create a video syllabus to visually inform students (using Tegrity®)   

• Create chart of objectives, activites and assessments iin the syllabus to show students how each is related to the other. 

• Use case studies as activities: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html 

• Link objective to a rubric. Set up a rubric: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php 

• Establish objectives for each week   

• Write objectives from the student's perspective

• Use Blackboard's Adaptive Release feature: select a course in Blackboard >>control panel>>course documents>>create or select a document>>manage>>adaptive release   

• Establish interaction boundaries (know when to stop)

• Separate out components of syllabus online. Policy, Grading, Schedule, keeps syllabus from appearing so long. Helps students find the information quicker. 

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