22 Syllabus Design
Department policies
Institutional syllabus info including Title IX, Disability Resource Center information, grading information, tutoring centers, and advising and counseling are now available in Canvas and does not need to be added to your personal syllabus.
ePortfolios are a required feature of all general education courses at SLCC, and are also a common platform of assessible artifacts for both departments and the College as a whole. Every gen ed course is required to have students contribute, at minimum, a reflective piece covering the class experience, and a signature assignment from the class to demonstrate the work that they completed in the course. This ePortfolio assignment is meant to be a meaningful part of the assessment for the course, and should have at least 5% of the total course grade assigned to it.
Plagiarism policies and procedures. According to the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, “Presenting within one’s own work the ideas, representations, or words of another person without customary and proper acknowledgment of that person’s authorship is considered plagiarism. Students who are unsure of what constitutes plagiarism should consult with their instructors. Claims of ignorance will not necessarily excuse the offense.”
Faculty have the freedom to lay out the consequences for academic dishonesty as they see fit, from failing an assignment to failing the course. Regardless of the policy, it should be laid out in the department member’s syllabus for students to reference. The form for reporting Academic Misconduct can be found here: https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?SaltLakeCC&layout_id=30
This form also contains the process for pursuing a formal complaint against a student.