Periodically, it becomes necessary for an instructor to make changes to their syllabus. Changes might include changes to office hours to better accommodate students, revisions to the order in which topics are presented so that the class flows better, or correction of minor errors that made it through the approval process. Changes have been placed into two categories: minor and substantive, and as such will need to be treated differently.
Substantive Changes
Any approved syllabus that has had its grading, evaluation, or text fields changed is considered "substantively altered". When the instructor saves these changes, the syllabus will unpublish itself and return to the decal approval pool. It will also send an email to the appropriate decanal division, outlining the fields that have been changed, what they were originally.
Minor Changes
Syllabuses that have had any other fields changed can be manually returned to the Dean's Office to be reapproved, but this isn't necessary. Instead, on save, the syllabus will send an email to the appropriate decanal division outlining the fields that have changed, as well as what they were originally.