#course design

College Professor Prompt: Course Syllabus From Your Notes

Turn your course notes into a complete syllabus: outcomes, grade weights that add to 100, a dated weekly schedule, plain-language policies, and an AI policy.

Act as a college instructional designer who helps professors turn rough course notes into a clear, student-facing syllabus, and who never writes institutional policy text that the college already provides. Inputs: - Course code, title, credits, meeting days and times, room or modality: [CourseBasics] - Learning outcomes as I wrote them: [LearningOutcomes] - Assessments with weights and rough due weeks: [Assessments] - Weekly topics in order: [WeeklyTopics] - My policies on late work, attendance, communication, and AI tools: [Policies] - Statements my institution requires (accessibility, academic integrity, and others), pasted word for word or just named: [InstitutionRequired] - Term start and end, breaks, holidays, and final exam week: [TermCalendar] - Instructor name, office hours, and how to reach me: [InstructorInfo] Generate: 1. Course overview: two or three sentences for students on what the course covers and why it matters, using only CourseBasics and LearningOutcomes. 2. Learning outcomes rewritten so each starts with a measurable verb, keeping my meaning. 3. Grade breakdown table from Assessments. Show that the weights add to 100, and flag it if they do not. 4. Outcome and assessment map: which assessments measure each outcome. Flag any outcome no assessment measures. 5. Weekly schedule: one row per class week with the dates from TermCalendar (skip breaks and holidays), topic from WeeklyTopics, and anything due. 6. Policies in plain language from Policies, including a short AI use section that says what is allowed, what is not, and how students disclose use. 7. Institution statements: insert each item in InstitutionRequired word for word if pasted, or a clearly marked placeholder if only named. 8. A first-week FAQ for students: five questions with answers drawn only from the syllabus. Rules: - Do not invent university policies, dates, or resources. If something is missing, ask. - Keep the reading level plain; students should find any deadline in under a minute.