I know that it’s the beginning of the summer (though July is right around the corner!) and that I should be “relaxing,” but with my new school, moving later this summer, and iFLT in mid-July, I’ve got to get some of the ground work for my classes laid now!
That being said, I jumped on the bandwagon and made an infographic syllabus! Technically, I made an infographic syllabus last year, but I included waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much text on it to have its full appeal. I basically took paragraphs and put them on a colorful background. This is only half of it – it wouldn’t fit on one sheet of paper on its own! It was an okay first attempt:
Anyway, this year I got a lot of my inspiration from Laura’s interactive infographic syllabus. I’m excited about this because this year, my students will actually be able to interact with the syllabus, as each student will have their own device for use in class.
I made my syllabus with piktochart, a service that lets you create your own infographics, and has a few free templates for you if you’re not an amazing designer. I use the free service, because that works for me, but I do like the look and features of their paid services as well. I will eventually be going the same route as Laura and using ThingLink to make my syllabus interactive, but there’s a few things I’m hoping to solidify before I go through the work to make my first draft interactive, like “will I have a classroom next year?”
I’m excited to share my syllabus with you, and look out a little later in the summer for my interactive version, which I can’t wait to (make and) share with you as well.
This year, I used the same template as last year, updated the colors from my favorites to my new school’s colors, and ditched a lot of the text. Eventually, when I make it interactive, I will have links to the ACTFL proficiency levels, my twitter and instagram teacher accounts, a description for my class materials, and a link to take students to a rubric for the standards-based grading that I will do. There will probably be a few other links than that, but those are the keys I would like to include.
You should be able to click the image to get a bigger picture. You can also view my syllabus here
What do you think? What is difficult for you to see or understand? Is there something that you think that I should add? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
En Français, SVP! 
I love this! I’ll definitely be following your lead and giving this a try when I get home in a few days!
Glad to hear it! Let me know if you have questions — the whole thing was a blast to make!
Another great example for me to borrow from as this is on my to do list!
Thanks so much! Borrow away – I can’t wait to see what yours looks like! :]
What a fun idea! Encore une fois, merci d’avoir partagé!!
I love this. I am absolutely going to use this for my class, as well!! Thank you!
This is the most beautiful syllabus I have ever seen! I’m definitely going to do something like this for my French class! Also, I love the idea that it’s interactive, you are lucky that all your students will have their own device!
The only thing that is difficult to distinguish is the ‘materials’ part. I would recommend making the ‘materials’ word bigger and maybe eliminating the other icons around it so it is more clear.
This is awesome! I’m totally going to be creating mine shortly. This is an online document, how do you have them cut the portion of the syllabus to sign and turn in? Do you give them a hard copy along with the digital copy?