Legacy Practices

Living in digital times does not faze some schools that still rely on the tried and true legacy practices of making the best out of what they have. We define legacy syllabus practices as the manual process of collecting syllabi through email and hardcopy and storing them in binders, filing cabinets, on a shared drive, or not at all.

It is not uncommon for schools to try and get a hold of “up‑to‑date” syllabi just months before the accreditors come. Additionally, schools will wait just days before assessment time to send a syllabus template or form out to faculty for them to copy and paste into existing syllabi in order to ensure syllabi meet institutional or specialized accreditation standards.

These legacy practices are still used today and are built on the philosophy that, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Take the syllabus assessment quiz and get your grade for syllabus management practices.