Allowing instructors to quickly and easily create, duplicate, and deploy syllabi.
Simple Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform built by Simple Higher Ed that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi.
This tool, which can integrate with CarmenCanvas, will reduce faculty workload and streamline syllabus preparation, enhance the accessibility of your syllabi and comply with SB1 requirements for syllabus access. Additionally, the platform features advanced analytics, enabling faculty to monitor student engagement with the syllabus.
A committee of faculty, staff and students is guiding implementation and establishing expectations for instructors ahead of the compliance deadline in autumn 2026. The committee is composed of faculty members representing a range of colleges and campuses as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
Committee
Academic / Faculty
Chairs
- Chaudhari, Ajit (chaudhari.2) – Medicine / Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Sue Sutherland (sutherland.43) – Education and Human Ecology / Human Sciences, Kinesiology
Members
- Shari Beck (beck.484) – Drake Institute
- Melissa Buelow (buelow.11) – Associate Dean, Newark Campus
- Rachel Childers (childers.73) – Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
- Michael Clune (clune.45) – Salmon P. Chase Center
- Bradley Dougherty (dougherty.85) – Optometry
- Sabrina Durso – Student / Council of Graduate Students
- David Foley (foley.527) – Nursing
- Jill Galvan (galvan.8) – Arts and Sciences / English
- Alex Grieco (grieco.11) – Medicine / Biomedical Education and Anatomy
- Rebecca Henderson (henderson.397) – Dentistry / Dental Hygiene
- Margaret Kwoka (kwoka.1) – Law
- Scott Levi (levi.18) – Arts and Sciences / History
- Kenneth Madson (madsen.34) – Newark / Geography
- Jacquelyn Meshelemiah (meshelemiah.1) – Social Work
- Mary Pohlschneider (pohlschneider.1) – Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences / Food Science and Technology
- Megan Roberts (roberts.1558) – Public Health / Health Behavior and Promotion
- Samantha Salem (salem.139) - Student / Undergraduate Student Government
- Eric Schoon (schoon.1) – Arts and Sciences / Sociology
- Zahina Stith (stith.75) – Student / Undergraduate Student Government
- Mytheli Sreenivas (sreenivas.2) – Arts and Sciences / Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Derik Staufenberg (staufenberg.3) – Fisher College of Business / Finance
- Lindy Weaver (weaver.866) – Medicine / Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Technical
- Max Gulick (gulick.24) – OTDI Learning Systems
- Ryan Hunt (hunt.781) – University Registrar
- Chris Palmer (palmer.469) – OTDI Student ERP Applications
- Valerie Rake (rake.9) – OTDI Learning Systems
- Lisa Rice (rice.796) – OTDI Learning Systems
This tool is being implemented under the direction of the Office of Academic Affairs with technical support and training provided by the Learning Systems team, who also support CarmenCanvas. For questions about policies and expectations, reach out to an academic implementation committee member listed below. For technical questions, contact the Learning Systems team at syllabus@osu.edu.
As the launch of the system approaches, updates will be shared with the university community.