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Welcome to a Canvas Engagement
Series Video

Today we are going to discuss the
BluePrint tool and some year two

or semester two considerations for
BluePrint rollover with templates.

Blueprint Courses makes it easy for
administrators or designers to deploy,

update, and maintain course design
templates or components across any

number of courses for instructors.

For an individual institution, Blueprint
Courses allow Canvas admins to create

content and learning objects while
locking specific settings or content items

Admins or designers can push updates to
associated courses through course syncing.

If admins are working off a previously
used BluePrint course they will want

to dissociate the previously associated
courses, otherwise, new updates will

continue to update in the
concluded course.

Any items that are not locked can be
managed individually by the

course instructor.

Content that can be managed by an
instructor is not overwritten when the

Blueprint Course is synced to
associated courses.

Plus, any new content created by the
instructor in their associated

course is not affected.

In this video we will go over some
considerations for preparing your

instructors for the updates and changes
for that second year or second semester

in Canvas with BluePrints.

If you have additional questions beyond
what’s covered in this video, please

visit the Canvas Community, or talk to
your Customer Success Manager.

Now…..Let’s get started!

When setting up year 2 or semester 2
using BluePrints as a template be certain

to focus on the naming conventions of the
new items you will be populating to

courses, possibly indicating a semester
or school year.

If you are updating previous items be
certain to change the title in some

fashion to recognize this is the new
school year or semester and this is a new

object to be used by the instructor.

It is considered a best practice to
associate BluePrints prior to instructors

adding in their content.

It will be less disruptive to the
instructors once they begin preparing

for the new semester or year.

Communicate in multiple ways to
instructors about the new updates to

the template

you are syncing with, this will allow
instructors to know what will be changing

and what to expect.

This will also prepare instructors to
pick the best way to import content

from previous semesters or years.

If there are going to be multiple updates
from the previous year instructors may

want to select the
“select specific content”

and be selective of what they will
be copying over.

If there are minor updates, they may want
to select “import all content” and delete

any duplicates from the import where
new items are in place.

One thing to note for Admins, when an
instructor copies content from one

course to another, if it was content that
was locked from a previous BluePrint

it will become unlinked and unlocked
from any BluePrint and instructors will

have full teacher role rights to those
objects in their new course.

Let’s dive a little deeper into what to
communicate and cover with instructors.

When instructors copy their previous
year or semester content into the new

course, they will have two options
for the import.

Copy a Canvas course “All content”

or Copy a Canvas Course
“Select Specific Content.”

Either option that an instructor selects
will bring in their content, to the new

semester or year long course.

When selecting specific content
instructors will be able to go through

and decide which objects to import.

The sync'd items from the BluePrint will
show up along with the remaining items

from the previously created course.

If you have additional questions about
how this can work for you and your

institution, please contact your CSM and
they will be happy to work with you

further. Thank you for your time today,
and Happy Canvassing!