A syllabus should be included to provide the students with a roadmap of where to go, what is expected, how they will be graded, etc. The course lectures, discussions, and quizzes/tests are all used to provide knowledge, assess, and evaluate the knowledge. Take into consideration that some revision and tweaking is often needed to turn a traditional F2F course into a hybrid or fully online course. This requires quite a bit of planning and work on the front end, however, frees the instructor up to really engage with the students and work toward deeper learning.
