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We are a District that uses Blueprints for all our courses and syncing down to child courses at 21 different Sub-accounts. We are open 365 days a year and have rolling enrollment for students, so Course Pacing was a perfect fit.
The biggest challenge I ran into is syncing Blackout Days under Course pacing. Even though you can create them under Blueprint Course pace, they do not sync down to child courses. But they do create duplicate entries under To-Do items and Calendars under child courses. So, a workaround for me was Creating Course pace and Blackout days under Blueprint and running API Script to create Blackout Days under Child Courses. Syncing, then removing Blackout Days from Blueprints and sync again, to remove duplicates created under To-Do items and Calendars. (very buggy)
For schools like ours, what would work great is the ability to create Blackout Days under the Root account and Sub account level that affect all courses with Course pace. So, control is more under the Account level rather than the course level.
Everything else seems to be working as expected. I like the ability to lock Settings under Blueprint for Default Pace, so Child Course Teachers can only modify Individual Student Paces, which is a main point of the feature in my opinion.
Some odd things would happen where Course Pace would initially grabe random pages or Assignments that were deleted as part of the initial Creation of the Course Pace. I wish there was a way to remove these rogue items or reset the entire Course pace to start over, like resetting the course. That is not possible at the moment, so you are stuck if that happens.
Our institution has a similar use case where we would want to populate and control the blackout days more globally such as at the sub-account level so they are consistent across a school instead of at a course by course basis.
Your notes and testing are very valuable to me as an administrator who is considering enabling this functionality in the near future, thank you!
Thank you; glad I could help. I heard back from Canvas Engeniers that this issue was corrected now and rolled out to production. I did not have a chance to test it yet.
Did you have time to test this issue, and is it fixed? Thank you!
Yes, I tested this under our instance and the issue is fixed.
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