Blueprint Courses

[AlexSchneider]

Hi Canvas Data Community, 

I looked at course_dim and did not found any reference to if that course is a blueprint or not, and about the associations that blueprint has. Is this kind of data in Canvas Data? 

Regards,

As.

[stimme · Accepted solution]

Hello @AlexSchneider ,

Canvas Data does not have fields or tables dedicated to blueprints. If you're keen on working with the requests table, you could reconstruct the relationships and activities of blueprint courses by selecting rows where web_application_controller = 'master_courses/master_templates'.

But the simplest way to get the relationships at this time is through the Canvas API.

1. Use the Accounts API's List Active Course in Account endpoint with the 'blueprint' parameter set to true.
2. Use the Blueprint Courses API's Get associated course info endpoint with the list of course IDs obtained in step 1.

Regards,
Sam

[AlxSchneider]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the reply. I'm still working on getting informations from a API, so i will try to use the request as you mentioned, i just need, for now, to count all the blueprint courses, so that probably will make what i need. 

[RonniTyger]

Hi Sam. Have you heard of a way to compare an associated and synchronized course to the blueprint to identify changes made in the associated course during a semester by the teacher? We want to do this to get ahead of changes that a department or teacher may ask for to the original blueprint course in the spirit of continuous quality improvement.