Maren,
First thank you for sharing your experience with a poorly developed syllabus and how your experience brought you to the point you have a well developed one. In answer to your question, yes, yes, yes. I over the years have written down the questions that students brought up about this item or that in the syllabus. I went in an rewrote that item and make it a part of my syllabus the next time I taught the course. Over the years my syllabi has gotten very refined and that is a result of student input.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.