Someday the pendulum *has* to swing back in the direction of the one-page syllabus, right? Just hand every student a phonebook-sized hard copy of all the boilerplate with their initial registration and say "these apply to every course," then let the syllabus just be a syllabus.

The boilerplate only lives on my online course canvas page now under ‘Course Administration’. The syllabus is back to its lean structure.

My school has done this. There's a webpage with university policies you can link to in your syllabus. Not down to 1 but back to 5 or 6 from, like, 14

I had a 52 page syllabus in one graduate course last semester Trying to consult that thing was a bitch

Price goes up Syllabi gets larger Customer needs to get their money’s worth.

This sounds eminently sensible

I split my syllabus into 3 pdfs: Syllabus-Core, Syllabus-Policies, and Syllabus-Resources: all three together are the syllabus. Only the "core" changed from class to class. I also think the grouping made it easier for students to approach.

But where will I put all the LEARNING OBJECTIVES?

I have started taking the boilerplate and putting it at the end of the syllabus.I have started taking the boilerplate and putting it at the end of the syllabus.

We largely don't even bother with that much any more, and none of it's hard copy either.

I am handing out a summary of the syllabus on one page and making the rest online only.