Lessons Learned from a Year with Blueprint Courses

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While you wait for all the #InstCon 2018 recordings to be available, I can share this information about my session on Blueprint courses. (See the attachment below for the slide deck.)

Presentation Abstract:

Blueprint offers the potential to save significant time in site setup, while ensuring consistency across courses. But when is it the best choice? We'll share lessons learned from Wharton's Blueprint pilot, including successful use cases, instructional design considerations, and strategies to avoid problems with group assignments, modules, and LTI tools.

Photo: Thanks, schafj‌!

And here's the video from #InstructureCarn: !

Resources in the Canvas Community:

• Ken Black's incredibly helpful Tips for Designing and Maintaining Blueprint Courses
• Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Introduction 
• Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Getting Buy-In 
• Lessons Learned about Blueprint: When Blueprint Wasn't the Solution 
• Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Replacing Course Copy Workflows  - one of the use cases I discuss in my #InstCon presentation is also addressed in this blog post
• James Jones's magical Canvas enhancement to Adjust All Assignment Dates on One Page

Want to Help Improve Blueprint Courses?

Here are some feature ideas you can up-vote and/or comment on:

• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9548-blueprint-make-modules-lockable (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9550 (archived, but will resubmit soon)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9927 (archived, but will resubmit soon)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9350-multiple-blueprints-in-a-single-course (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9708-feature-options-settings-for-blueprint (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8980-blueprint-courses-improve-the-synch-history (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11184-lock-question-banks-in-blueprint (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11467-mastery-path-blueprintcourse-copy-support (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/10981-option-to-regrade-quiz-for-blueprint-quiz (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/10946-blueprint-api-should-behave-the-same-as-the-blueprint-to... (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11826-trigger-notification-for-blueprint-announcements (open for voting)
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11932-lock-all-content-in-blueprint (open for voting) -- from talking with folks at #InstCon, most people assume this is the way that Blueprint behaves -- everything is locked by default -- but it isn't!
• https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11827-make-syllabus-changes-in-blueprint-prompt-to-sync (open for voting)