Manually entering students into a blueprint course

[jmurph18]

I am manually entering students into sections of a blueprint course. I just added them as users in the admin area but when I go to add them as students in the course, the only options to assign are "teacher, TA, designer". Please help!!

Jennifer

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @jmurph18,

It sounds like you may be working in the master/parent blueprint course shell, is that right?  If so, then I do believe you'll be locked out from adding students there, as it's just means for content/course development.  Students should be added to the child course shell(s), which would inherit the content/settings of the parent.  I hope this is making some sense to you.  If not, please let us know and we can hopefully provide additional clarity or guides to you.

-Chris

[mzimmerman]

Hi @jmurph18 

I'm not sure if your school uses a different nomenclature, but "Blueprint" courses are generally set up as "templates" to design course content that will later be automatically copied over to the "real" courses, where the students are actually enrolled.   (See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-sync-course-content-in-a-blueprint-cour... for a little information about the Canvas "blueprint course" functionality).

For that reason, students are not normally enrolled in "Blueprint" courses, and in some schools, permissions are set up so that instructors cannot add students.  However, you will probably want to contact the Help Desk at your school with questions about specific settings and permissions on your school's Canvas.

[Chris_Hofer]

@jmurph18 ...

I agree with the comments from both @chriscas and @mzimmerman.  As this Guide states in the second light blue box at the top of the page, students cannot be enrolled in Blueprint courses.

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