What is a Blueprint Course?
A blueprint course on BruinLearn is a course that holds content you want to share with any number of associated courses. It can be used to create a “master” site with commonly used materials such as language adoption, or placement exams.
How do we create a Blueprint Course?
On the left hand panel of your Bruinlearn site, click on “admin” and select “Humanities”. This will take you to a page that houses all the courses under “Humanities”. On the top right of the screen, click on “ + Course” option. It will prompt a small window asking you to fill out the course name, reference code, select the subaccount you want to house the blueprint course under and if you want, select the enrollment term. Then click add course.
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This will create a new course, and you can select the “enable as blueprint course” option from the course settings. Settings can be found on the left hand panel of your course site. Note: An existing course can be turned into a blueprint site this way too.
How to associate courses with Blueprint course?
In the Blueprint course, add content either by copying another canvas course or creating new assignments/modules/quizzes from scratch. Then select the dotted square icon the top right corner of the screen, next to the “student view” button. It allows one to associate or link ‘normal’ courses with the blueprint course.
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Users can also click on > Courses and it will show a list of courses listed under the subaccount under which the blueprint course is created. Upon selecting the course you want to associate, click done, and Bruinlearn will automatically begin syncing the content onto the associated courses. Note: Bruinlearn does not allow you to associate blueprint courses with another blueprint course. Blueprint courses will not show up under > courses.
Locked editing options vs. Unlocked
Once you have added content, you will notice that each item type has a lock option next to the publishing option.
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Associated course Instructors can view synced and locked content but they cannot modify locked objects in locked content. When instructors edit locked course content, Bruinlearn will display a locked attributes message.
How to sync associated courses?
Let’s say you have added new content to your blueprint course and would like to sync it with your associated courses. To do that, click the Blueprint Courses icon on the top right of the course site. It will give you an additional option called unsynced changes.
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