As soon as you add content to the Syllabus tool in your Canvas course, any Stanford affiliate can view your syllabus content at syllabus.stanford.edu, even if your course is unpublished*. This is based on the course setting where the syllabus is available to the Institution. The reason for this visibility setting is to make as many syllabi available as possible to help students with their course planning.

Change the visibility of your syllabus

Restrict syllabus access to only registered students

1. Go to Settings at the bottom of your course navigation.
   
2. In the Course Details tab, scroll down to the Visibility section and select Course for Syllabus.
3. Click Update Course Details.

Open syllabus access to the public

1. Go to Settings at the bottom of your course navigation.
   
2. In the Course Details tab, scroll down to the Visibility section and select Public for Syllabus.
3. Click Update Course Details.

Create a draft version of your syllabus

If you are building rich syllabus content (multiple files, inline text, embedded media) but are not yet ready to make it visible, you can do one of the following:

1. Temporarily reduce visibility of the syllabus to Course (as described above) 
2. Use the Pages tool to build your draft. Once the content is finalized and ready for students, copy and paste your draft content into the Syllabus tool.

*The default for the Graduate School of Business is for course syllabi to be available to course members only.