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Guide To Establishing Faculty Web Presence

Utilizing The Faculty Syllabus Template

Providing an Accessible, Compliant Online Syllabus

The purpose of the Faculty Syllabus Template is to give faculty an accessible, compliant online syllabus that students can access. Just like the Faculty Bio Template, this template can be edited by any web editor. This template features all the sections required by a syllabus, with additional sections to give more of a class overview.

Obtaining The Faculty Syllabus Template

Just like the Faculty Bio Template, users can use any web browser to navigate to the Faculty Syllabus Template, and download it to their local machine. To obtain the Faculty Syllabus Template, go through the following steps:

    Locating The Faculty Syllabus Template
  1. Go to the following URL using the browser of your choice. In this example, Internet Explorer will be used: http://www.csun.edu/ati/crimsonfacultysyllabus.html

     

    View of Faculty Syllabus Template In Internet Explorer

     

    2. Naming The Faculty Syllabus Template
  2. In your browser, go to <Page>, then select <Save As..>.

     

    View of How To Save The Faculty Syllabus Template

     

  3. Save the page as <class>syllabus.html under your public_html on your webdrive (W:). In the “Save Webpage” Window, set Filename: to <classname>syllabus.html. Then set Save as type: to Webpage, HTML only (*.htm;*.html). (In this example, the filename is ati101syllabus.html).

     

    View of Saving Faculty Syllabus Template with the name of the Class

     

    4. Saving The Template To The WebDrive
  4. In the location bar in the “Save Webpage” window, navigate to your public_html folder, under your webdrive (W:). To get there, select <Computer> in the left pane.

     

    View of Save Webpage Dialog Selecting Computer Icon

     

  5. In the right pane, select <CSUN Login Name (\\webdrive.csun.edu) (W:)>. In this example, it is ati on 'CSUN High Availability Samba (webdrive)' (W:).

     

    View of Save Webpage Dialog Window with Webdrive Selected

     

  6. In the right pane, select the folder <public_html>. Once you have navigated there, select <Save> in the bottom right corner of the “Save Webpage” window. Note: These files are a framework, i.e. Template, of what your production pages will be based off of. These pages will not have active links or editable data.

     

    View of Webpage Dialog Window with public_html Selected

    Figure 1 - Select public_html on webdrive (W:)

    View of Save Webpage Dialog Window where ati101syllabus.html is saved to public_html Folder

    Figure 2 - Select Save to save ati101syllabus.html in public_html folder

     

After completing these steps, the Faculty Syllabus Template has been saved to the webdrive. Now the document can be edited to the end-users liking. As mentioned before, any web editor can be used to edit the document. There is documentation on editing the Faculty Bio Template using Contribute, Dreamweaver, and an Open Source Web Editor - KompoZer. The documentation can be found at the web site entitled Web Editors Used To Create A Professional Web Presence. Additional documentation can be found in the downloadable document entitled Using Contribute 4 To Edit The Faculty Web Templates (.doc 8 MB).