Blueprint workflows and workarounds for staggered course updates

[imerricks]

Hi Admins, 

My institution is trialling blueprints and has run into a challenge where we cannot apply certain changes urgently (e.g broken link or clarifying assignment instructions), while defering other changes still in development (e.g. major content changes waiting for sign-off before we go live). It would be great if you had the option to specify the changes you want to sync and those you want to defer, but this doesn't appear to be the case.

Has anyone here found a good process for staggering changes using Blueprints? 

Thank you!

[pray4 · Accepted solution]

We categorize our changes to blueprints as either substantive or non-substantive (with subcats). Broken links, grammar issues, etc. are all non-substantive changes we make directly in the blueprint course. Substantive changes require a new sandbox course that is a copy of the existing blueprint. Once the substantive changes have been made and approved, we launch a new version of the blueprint at the following term start.

[imerricks]

Thanks very much @pray4 for sharing your workflow, this sounds like it could work for us!