Canvas Blueprints can be a lifesaver or a pain in the you know what! A blueprint course allows you to create content and learning objects, lock specific settings or content items, and push updates to all associated courses through course syncing. On our campus, PLC teams use blueprint courses to create common content and push out to the individual teacher's course for consistency and to save time. There's no point in four different teachers doing the same task separately when you can do it once for everyone on the team. The drawback is that sync between the blueprint and the yearly courses can be broken by editing in the yearly course. This often causes lots of frustration and wasted time and energy. When you think you've got your course ready to go only to find out that you're missing an update because of a broken sync,...well, it is frustrating. Is your yearly course no longer updating when you sync changes from the blueprint? Guess what?! We can recover the sync by locking pages! Let me show you how in today’s Minute Monday! A few things to consider before locking pages:
Blueprints are not the best solution for everyone or every situation. Not all Canvas courses need blueprints. I seriously love blueprints when working as a team that seeks continuity between courses. Knowing this little tip can be a lifesaver for your common content and learning objects!
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