The Syllabus page in Canvas allows you to communicate with your students about the course description and the activities you require them to complete throughout the course in chronological order. This link has specific details on what is required in a UNL syllabus. It also contains some templates you can use.

The Canvas syllabus page consists of three parts:

The Syllabus Description
The Course Summary
The Sidebar

Syllabus page with three sections for syllabus description, course summary, and sidebar

Syllabus Description

The syllabus description is where you can post your course description, a brief introduction, class guidelines, weekly reminders, and other important information. You can copy content from Word documents directly into the Rich Content Editor or create original content inside of the Rich Content Editor.

You can link to your Syllabus by uploading it into Course Files as a PDF and linking it in the content selector. Canvas will automatically create a preview of your document so your students don't have to download it before reading it.

Course Summary

The course summary displays all published and unpublished assignments with their due dates in chronological order automatically. Students can only view the published assignments.

If you want to update the course summary, you should do so by updating the assignment due date in the assignment or course calendar.

Sidebar

The sidebar part displays:

a calendar which gives information about event or assignment due dates is shown
grading information such as assignment groups and weighted percentage (if the course includes weighted assignment groups)