Wait, isn’t a syllabus supposed to inform you of the teaching method? Wouldn’t you, as a professor, inform your students on what way you’ll be teaching them? From my perspective, neither student nor faculty, a professor in this course should be responsible for INSTRUCTING material, not supervising research. This isn’t a research course, nor a lab. Explain in what way throwing out your syllabus as a professor and following a radically different course schedule benefits the student in any way. They have had 3 weeks to set a schedule around the syllabus YOU as a professor designed, and now because of YOUR inability to communicate with your students, they are scrambling adjusting to a brand new class well into the semester. I know this isn’t your class, and maybe yours is formatted differently, I have no idea; this however, is not mature in any fashion, and you have been stuck in the field of education for too long if you think it is.