Bulk Upload Canvas Courses with an extra home page

[oneilllj]

Hi there

We currently use BluePrints at our college. We are looking to update our template slightly for the new term in 2025, by adding a whole new home page to every course.

Is there a quick way to do a bulk upload to add this new page to all of our 2025 BluePrints, prior to importing the relevant content from 2024 into these blueprints?

Thanks in advance.

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @oneilllj 

I understand you need to push out some new changes to all of your associated BluePrint courses. 

With Blueprints, you should be able to add a new home page/page to every associated course without too much difficulty. 

In your master BP course, you would obviously create the new page, and add your new template content to the page. This should recognize that you have triggered an Unsynced change in the Master BP sidebar and you should be able to sync that change over to all of the associated courses. 

Hopefully this helps! 

-Colton 

[oneilllj]

Hi Colton

We would like to add a brand new home page to every BluePrint Course - we have almost 100 or more of these. Once this new page is added to all of these BP courses, we would then sync the changes to the class courses.

I was hoping there was a way I could push the new home page into each of the BluePrint courses in one go, rather than copying the page into each and every BluePrint course.

Do you know if this is possible?

Thanks

[BrianLester · Accepted solution]

The following API call will let you create a page (I'm giving the url form the Canvas Live API) with the option of setting it as front page:

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/live#!/pages.json/update_create_page_courses_put_11

I think this could be done after importing content... so the previous front page setting is over written