Concourse Syllabus

Loyola has specific policies regarding required syllabus content. Please review our syllabus template page for more information. On this page, you will also find templates (plain and graphic) that can be adjusted to meet your particular pedagogical needs. You will also find a current copy of syllabus part II. 

Loyola now uses Concourse Syllabus for our storage and repository needs. Please note: 

• Email onlineed@loyno.edu if there are any difficulties.
• Instructors can change the position of "Concourse Syllabus" in the course menu by dragging and dropping entries on the Navigation page in Course Settings.
• Instructors can add a direct link to a particular syllabus by clicking the plus-sign in any course module, then selecting External Tool, then Concourse Syllabus, then selecting a particular syllabus.

Do you have a syllabus? Adding it to Concourse is easy:

1. Go to your course in Canvas.

2. Select “Concourse Syllabus” from the course navigation.

3. Upload your pdf syllabus. 

4. Done!

5. You need not request review of your syllabus unless your college/department has told you do so. 

Note, your syllabus should be your actual course syllabus for the semester and not a representative/default sample. This enables the university or your college to pull the syllabus for accreditation or registrar purposes. You may put a note on your syllabus that it is, "subject to change from semester-to-semester" for students viewing your syllabus not currently in your course. 

See a visual step-by-step guide to uploading your syllabus and viewing analytic data. 

See a visual step-by-step guide to searching the Syllabus Repository. 

Known Issues

1. "Student View" will not display what the syllabus looks like to students. Because Concourse requires authenticated users, the system will see the user in "student view" as someone outside of Loyola, and will display a message stating that the syllabus is not available to the public.

2. Faculty should sign into Concourse for the first time through Canvas (not the SSO) or courses may not populate correctly for syllabus upload. 

3. Concourse may logout after just a few minutes of non-activity. Users will need to leave Concourse and then click on the link again. 

4. Concourse Error - Cannot Verify ID Token: This error appears when third-party cookies are prohibited on the user computer. Relatedly, a user may not be able to access Concourse via Canvas, but can access it via the SSO. Again, this is related to third-party cookies. Please reach out to the onlineed@loyno.edu for additional assistance. See this link for help enabling third party cookies on different browsers. 

5. Canvas "Syllabus" was changed to "Schedule" to reduce confusion. It will still appear as "Syllabus" in the instructor navigation settings and on the mobile app. 

Note: Concourse does not sell data or use our syllabi to train AI models and adheres to stringent security standards and information management practices so that you can trust your data will remain safe and sound. Among other practices, they maintain an A+ cryptographic certificate rating, process SIS data over secure HTTP instead of sFTP, and actively mitigate their attack surface.