Reviewing & Editing Your Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

This guide is essential for faculty looking to ensure their Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) are accurate their syllabi.

Alexis Ruiz
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Reviewing Your SLOs

The "Student Learning Outcomes" section in Simple Syllabus pre-populates with text from PeopleSoft. It is a best practice to read over these and to ensure they are correct.

Instructors teaching courses belonging to the School of Biological & Physical Sciences cannot edit their SLOs or course descriptions. When reviewing your SLOs, if they are incorrect, please message your department chair directly.

In general, student learning outcomes should include a numbered list of outcomes students can expect to achieve by the end of the course.

"Reviewing" your SLOs just means reading over this section for accuracy. If the student learning outcomes are incorrect, or you would like to add additional information, you can directly edit in the text window.

Editing Your SLOs

In this example, we are looking at a syllabi for ENC1101. We are unsure if the SLOs are accurate, so now we are going to consult the "Master Course Description" document.

Do not close your Simple Syllabus tab.

In a new tab, navigate to [Falcon Self-Service](https://csprd.daytonastate.edu/psc/CSPRD/EMPLOYEE/SA/s/WEBLIB_HCX_GN.H_SPRINGBOARD.FieldFormula.IScript_Main?institution=DSC01&&)

Click on the "Falcon Self-Service" tile.

Click on "Instructor Homepage."

Click on "Employee Homepage" from the drop-down list.

Click on the "Document Repository" tile.

If prompted to login, select your @daytonastate.edu account.

You will now arrive to the Daytona State College Document Repository. Click on the "Departments" folder.

From the subfolders, click on "Academic Affairs."

Next, click the "Master Course Descriptions" subfolder.

Click on the "\[Department\]" subfolder.

Select the "\[Course\]" pdf.

On page 1, locate the "Student Learning Outcomes" section.

If the master course description's SLOs match the SLOs on your syllabus you are good to go!

If the syllabus SLO's do not match the master course description, proceed with the next steps.

Copying & Pasting SLOs From the Master Course Description

Double-click and drag your mouse on the student learning outcomes. Press on the [[ctrl]] + [[c ]]keys on your keyboard to copy the text.

Switch back to your Simple Syllabus tab.

Make sure you removed the SLOs on the syllabus using the backspace or delete keys.

To paste the SLOs copied from the master course description in step 16, press the [[ctrl]] + [[v]]keys on your keyboard.

Now, you have added the SLOs from the master course description. You may need to edit the pasted information next.

Click in front of the word "purposes."

Press the " [[Backspace]]" key on your keyboard.

Now, the first sentence is all on the same line.

Formatting Tips: Numbered Lists

While the information copied from the master course description document includes numbers, those numbers are not formatted with the numbered list function in Simple. If you would like to re-format the list, please follow the below steps.

Double-click and drag your mouse over the text you want to number. The text should highlight in light blue.

Click on the "numbered list" (Simple calls this an "ordered list") icon. This icon will look like three horizontal lines with numbers to the direct left of them.

Now, you will have a numbered list, but you may see something like "1. 1." or "2. 2.." We will want to edit this.

Delete the second number. In example, for "1. 1." delete the second "1."

To delete, press the " [[Backspace]]" key on your keyboard. Repeat this step as needed.

Now, you will have successfully added and formatted the numbered list for your SLOs.