Retrieve the blueprint course id based off a course id

[Robdepietro]

I see that there is a way to find all the associated courses assigned to a blueprint course

/api/v1/courses/<blueprint_course_id>/blueprint_templates/default/associated_courses

however, how would I find what that blueprint_course_id is associated with a specific course. As of right now the only information in the course object is if the course is an actual blueprint and that is just a true or false. 

I want to grab one of our courses and associate which blueprint that was created with....I can't find that as an option via the API. 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks. 

[melodyc_lam]

@Robdepietro 

Hello!

In my opinion, this is one of the use cases where I would NOT use the API to grab this data.

It's MUCH faster to use the Reports tab  in the subaccount/account settings and then pull either Provisioning (if you don't use a SIS)/SIS Export (if you do use SIS imports) and check the blueprint_course_id column for the course you are looking for for the course ID.

Hope this helps.

[Robdepietro]

Thank you for the response however, what if I was trying to programmatically create new courses based off a blueprint ID of a previous course. 

[melodyc_lam]

@Robdepietro I'm not sure what you mean -- could you describe exactly what you'd like to do and I may have a solution. 

[Robdepietro]

@melodyc_lam thank you. The issue is that we often have to close a canvas course and create a new one based off the same blueprint of the one that we closed. As of right now that is a manual process. We are trying to programmatically find the blueprints based off the course that is closed and then reopen it.

finding blueprints based on a course code would be extremely helpful or finding what blueprint was associated with a specific course. 

hopefully that helps. 

[stimme · Accepted solution]

It looks like you can find what blueprint a course associated to (if it is) using the endpoint to list blueprint subscriptions.

[Robdepietro]

maybe this is what I do need! I may have assumed that this was the blueprint course id to show the courses associated with the blueprint. 

Thank you @stimme