While the University maintains a set of policies that relate to all courses, departments may or may not also have a set of policies that apply to their own courses, such as how to submit late assignments, attendance policies while on placements, or the use of clickers during lectures. To streamline the process, these policies are managed via the department configuration screen, and then dynamically applied to published syllabuses that fall within the policy's publication and expiry dates.
To add a policy, click the "Add Policy" button. A new policy will appear, and present the following fields:
- Name: This is the title of your department's policy.
- Published: This is the date that the policy comes into effect.
- Expiry: This is the date that the policy expires. If you don't have any guidelines about internal policy review, it's perfectly fair to set the expiry to some arbitrary date far into the future, and then edit it later if the policy becomes obsolete.
- Content: This is the content of the policy.
- Save Draft: This button will allow you to save any changes to your policy, but won't attach it to any syllabuses.
- Publish: Clicking this button will save any changes you've made to the syllabus and attach it to any applicable syllabuses.
- Delete: Lets you delete a policy entirely. While it might be appropriate to do so for a draft policy, it's preferable to expire a live policy, so that it continues to be applied to historical syllabuses.