Setting Up Blueprint Courses

Owned by Nicole Carrobis
Last updated: Nov 08, 2024
2 min read

Primary use case: many sections of the same course are taught in a single semester or session. Blueprint Courses would be most helpful in this case if the course content is intended to be similar across many instructors, for example.

Steps

  1. Reach out to LTS for help setting up a primary, “parent” Blueprint Course. You can do this by emailing lts@boisestate.edu or submitting a ticket with the Help Desk, which will get escalated to LTS.

    1. LTS follows this “How do I enable a course as a blueprint course as an admin?” process, and will select the “Enable course as a Blueprint Course” setting in the course you identify.

  2. Create a new course, or designate an existing course, to become the “parent” course.

    1. Note: “parent” courses cannot have student enrollments. Enrollments would be in the “child” course(s).

  3. Prepare the “parent” course. See the next Using Blueprint Courses article for information about how to manage content and syncing. You can lock certain pages or assignments so they are uneditable in “child” courses. All of this is managed in Blueprint icons and the Blueprint sidebar.

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  1. Once the “parent” course is ready, open the Blueprint sidebar to associate new “child” course(s). Select Associations, Search Courses by title, check boxes next to any course(s) that need the content pushed into them. Then select Sync.

    1. Note: depending on how much content there is, and how many courses need to be synced, you may need to wait several minutes for syncing to finish.

  2. Check out the new child course(s) and confirm everything is set up the way you want.

    1. Note: you can make edits and sync/re-sync as many times as you need to with Steps 3-5.