About a year ago, I decided to combine the ideas of a syllabus activity and a get-to-know-students activity. Using Microsoft Forms, I created an introductory exercise to share with students a week before the first day of classes. This optional activity included short videos related to syllabus content, a link to a liquid syllabus, and multiple-choice questions over the presented material. It also included several open-response questions intended to help me to get to know the students a little before we met as well as a prompt for students to ask any questions they might have.
