The syllabus should include the following information, which should be presented in the language recommended by the Office of Online Education and other offices where relevant. The information should be incorporated into the KYSU Online/Global syllabus template so that standard information appears consistently from course to course.45

The syllabus should include the basic information for the course. This includes the course title, number, and credit hours. This should be consistent with the information maintained by the Registrar and what is displayed in the Catalog. The syllabus should also identify the modality of the course as “online.”

The syllabus should include the official course description from the academic catalog. It should also list the official prerequisites per the catalog and/or the Registrar.

The syllabus should include course learning outcomes or objectives. These learning outcomes should match the learning outcomes of the same course in other modalities, such as traditional or hybrid sections.

SMEs should consult with the Office of Online Education about including program learning outcomes in the syllabus. Doing so can help students appreciate the ways in which the course and its components (i.e., the parts of the degree program) contribute to their acquisition of program objectives and their development of graduate-ready knowledge, skills, and abilities (i.e., the totality of what the degree represents).

The course learning outcomes and program learning outcomes should be distinguished with numbers or letters in such a way that these can be aligned with assignments in the syllabus and in the course schedule. For example, each course learning outcome could be designated with a capital “C” followed by the number of its place in the list of course learning outcomes (e.g., C1, C2, C3, etc.). Each program learning outcome could be designated in this same way, using a “P” instead of a “C” and a “C2”, and the number of the number of the number of

The syllabus should list the full bibliographic information of each required textbook and learning resource, including the ISBN. The details should match what is on file with the bookstore for the course. It might be appropriate to include brief comments about whether the resource is provided within the LMS, such as in the case of electronic resources integrated directly into the course pages.

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