(SPEECH) [AUDIO LOGO] (DESCRIPTION) Logo, OTAN. (SPEECH) SPEAKER: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. [PIANO MUSIC] (DESCRIPTION) Text, OTAN, leading adult education through support for and the effective application of technology. Professional development, teaching with technology, OTAN digests and newsletters, news and social media, annual technology and distance learning symposium, online resources and video presentations. OTAN.US, 916-228-2580. OTAN Online. Canvas Course Admins: Setting up a Blueprint or Template. Presenter: Dana Thompson, OTAN Subject Matter Expert. February 22, 2024. Dana Thompson appears in the upper right corner of the slide presentation. She is seated with the OTAN logo in the background and speaking to us. (SPEECH) DANA THOMPSON: So welcome. We're going to go over Blueprints and Templates in Canvas today. And (DESCRIPTION) Text, Blueprints and Templates for Admin. Dana Thompson, SME. dthompson@scoe.net. @ techie thompson. (SPEECH) there's my contact information, if you have questions later. (DESCRIPTION) Webinar Objective. Objective: Explore and understand the functionalities and applications of Blueprint Courses and Course Templates in Canvas. (SPEECH) So for the objective today, we're going to look at how we can use and understand the functionalities of Blueprint courses, and how they are different than course Templates. And then how you can control the content. Now, this is geared towards those of you who are on the admin side. Next week, we'll be talking about it from the teacher's perspective-- if you are a teacher in a course that is a Blueprint course or a Template course, how do you plug your content in, and that kind of stuff. But for today, we're going to talk about how to set it up, which one to choose, and the benefits from having Blueprints and Templates. So (DESCRIPTION) Blueprint Courses: Purpose. The purpose of Blueprint courses: Master course setup for standardizing content across multiple courses. Used for consistent course design and content synchronization. Changes in the blueprint course sync automatically to all associated courses. Locked content overwrites existing content; unlocked content remains editable. Ideal for courses sharing core content and standardization. (SPEECH) when we take a look at what a Blueprint course is, this is a course that is a Master course that you might have standardized content in. So if you've got several teachers teaching the same course, and you want to control the content so that you are meeting those standards, and course outcomes, and all of that you are working on, and you want it to be consistent among all of your teachers, you can set up a Blueprint course. And it will push all of that content out to your associated courses. And the associated courses are the ones that will have students in them. The master course will not have students in it. It is strictly a course Master. So it's used for consistent course design and content synchronization, making sure that everybody has what they are required to have. And then it also provides the opportunity for teachers to be able to then customize what has been unlocked. And it restricts them from customizing the items that have been locked that you don't want to be altered or different than what the intent of the course was. So the changes at the Blueprint Master can be synced out to the associated courses, even after the courses have been started and students are in them. But the locked content will overwrite that so that you can maintain that efficacy of what you want to remain unchanged in all of the courses. So it's great for those-- like I said, those courses that are being taught. It's the same course being taught by multiple teachers. It's also great if you have a course, or you have announcements or content that you want on [VERBAL FILLER]. It doesn't have to be the same subject. It can be all of your Monday, Wednesday classes, or whatever the case may be-- that you want to push content out that everybody teaches, those common modules, or those common concepts. But then they have the freedom to customize their content. So I'm going to show you what that means and what that looks like. But Blueprints are ideal for that consistency, and for pushing out content on a grander scale, so that everybody gets that without having to do their own course content import and that kind of thing. (DESCRIPTION) Blueprint Courses: Features. Key Features of Blueprint Courses: Content Types: Supports all Canvas content types (files, assignments, quizzes). Distribution: Top-down sync, exact copy from master to associated courses. Management: Created and maintained by account admins or designated roles. Content Locking: Allows locking/unlocking of course objects (content, points, due dates). Enrollment: Does not include student enrollments. (SPEECH) So when we're looking at these Blueprint courses, the items that can be synchronized are any Canvas content types. So files that have been uploaded into the Canvas Master course can be synced to the associated courses. Any kind of Canvas assignments, Canvas quizzes, Canvas pages, Canvas discussions, all of those can be synced from the Master to the associate. And it's from top-down. So when you're working in the Master, that exact copy will be transferred down or synced to your associated courses. It's created and maintained by the account admins or somebody that they have designated access to that Master course. But you don't want everybody having access to that Master course because then you can't maintain that-- maintain the content in a way that you know that it's not being modified when you don't want it to be modified. So you do want to restrict who has access to the main Master course. But the beauty is, is once that content has been pushed down to the associated courses, then that's where the teachers can customize the areas that they are allowed to customize. So when we say content locking, what that means is it allows you to lock parts of the course-- whether it's the content, or an assignment, or the points-- so that that can't be modified by the teachers in the associated course. And then you can designate areas that are not locked that can be modified by the teachers in their associated courses. But the two things that have to happen, from the admin perspective, is your Master course has to be in the same sub-account tree as the associated courses. And the Master course cannot have any students enrolled in it. It can only have the teacher, or designer, or admin enrolled in that course. So those are two things that you want to make sure happen. (DESCRIPTION) Templates: Purpose. Canvas Templates: A course shell providing a structural foundation for course design. Facilitates uniform course layout and content across new courses. Suitable for institutions seeking consistency in course design across various courses. (SPEECH) So how is this different-- and I'm going to show you examples. How is this different than a Canvas Template? So if you've been into Canvas, and you have a new course shell, you know that everything is completely empty. And you have to create those Canvas pages, assignments, discussions individually, and it-- just everything is at the default. You also have to go in and customize your course navigation, if you want it to be different and hide the things that you don't want your students seeing in the course navigation, and those kinds of things. But say you have a Template that you would like your teachers to start from so that they have a welcome and overview module. And then they have modules already set up for them so that all they have to do is plug-in their information. They don't have to think about, oh, should this be a page? Should it be an assignment? And they don't have to recreate everything from scratch. And it maintains kind of that branding. So you have your colors. And if you wanted to have a home page that has buttons, you can have that all pre-set up. And then what happens is, again, it cannot have any enrollments in it-- the Canvas Template course. But you create all of that branding, and that navigation, and that course flow in the Master course Template. And then you indicate from the settings in the sub-account that any new courses, whether they're made from an SIS import or manually, will start with that Template inside of it. So it provides those elements for the teachers to start with. And then it's at the teachers discretion how that is then customized, and what goes in there, and what they use, and what they hide. And that synchronization doesn't happen. It's just the Template is provided for them to get going. And it helps them get started much quicker because they don't have to create all of those elements from scratch again. And they don't have to worry about importing the Template. It's just there. But there's no follow-up. Like, you can't change it and then push it out. Once the Template is imported into the course, when the course is created, that's the length of it. So this is great if you want to provide that structural foundation, if you want to have a uniform layout and course navigation across all of your courses. And it's great for those institutions that are looking for consistency in the course design. And, again, that kind of branding. But then beyond that, your teachers have free rein over the course. They're not restricted, and they can't be synced. So (DESCRIPTION) Templates: Features. Key Features and Limitations. Content Types: Supports all content types like Blueprint courses. Distribution: Applied to new course shells during creation, manual or via SIS. Management: Admins create and maintain course templates. Limitations: Updates to templates apply only to new courses. No direct association with existing courses. (SPEECH) the key features of Templates is that it supports all content types. So you can have a Blueprint course, start from a Template, and then be that Blueprint and Master that then pushes out the content. The Template, again, is applied to any new course shell during the creation, whether that's done manually at the admin level or through an SIS sync or upload. The admins, again, will create that course Template and maintain the course Template. But then once it's pushed out to the courses, that is now in the teacher's purview. So there are some limitations. Again, if you update your Template, it will only apply to new courses that are made from that updated Template from then on out. It does not backfill the Templates that were already created before you made changes. And there's no direct association with existing courses. So it's a little bit different than a Blueprint. (DESCRIPTION) Advantages and Disadvantages. A chart titled, Advantages and Disadvantages of Both, showing advantages and disadvantages of Blueprint and Template. Advantages: Blueprint: Syncs to all courses, more control for admins, consistent course design. Template: easy transition into new terms, consistent starting point, less initial work for instructors. Disadvantages: Blueprint: Time-intensive setup, potential overwriting of content. Template: limited to new courses, requires admin intervention for setup. (SPEECH) So there are advantages and disadvantages to both. The advantages of the Blueprint, again, is that synchronization so that you can continue to sync content down to the associated courses, even after they've been started, and students are enrolled, and they're working. There's more control on the admins because you can then lock aspects of the course that you don't want to be modified. And it keeps that consistent course design. The advantages from a Templates perspective, not a Blueprint, is that there's an easy transition into new terms. So you can update that Template from term to term, or it's just that consistent design from term to term. There's a consistent starting point for teachers so that they know what to expect when they go in and they're creating their new courses. And it's less initial work for the instructors because a lot of those design tasks can be done for them. Disadvantages to both. For a Blueprint, it is a time-intensive setup, and there is potential overwriting of content. And one of the things that needs to be communicated very clearly to your instructors is that if you have an area that has been created in the Blueprint, and is locked, and it's then pushed down to the associated course, and the teacher changes that content, the next time that Blueprint is synced, it will overwrite the teacher's changes. Because it's been tagged as the Master. So we want to make sure that teachers know that-- the areas of the course they're working in, that if they change it it, there's the potential of it to be overwritten. And then there's-- The Template disadvantages is it's limited to just new courses that are created. It doesn't go back to courses that were already created. And it does require an Admin intervention for setup. So both of these need to be set up by somebody on the Admin side so that it will provide that starting point for your teachers. (DESCRIPTION) Text, Guiding Questions. When deciding between creating a template or a blueprint course in Canvas, consider the following guiding questions. (SPEECH) So what do you need to think about when you're deciding whether you want to create a Template or a Blueprint? What is your primary goal? Are you looking to standardize the content across the various courses for existing courses and new course creation? So if you are looking to standardize content, you're going to look towards a Blueprint. Updateability. Do you need the ability to push content updates automatically to multiple courses? Then you would need a Blueprint. Then we look at control. Do you require the ability to lock certain content to prevent the editing by your instructors? That would be a Blueprint. And then we look at the benefits. How frequently do you create new courses that would benefit from a standardized Template? So, again, that's providing that starting point. So we're not just looking at a blank slate. We already have the home page with buttons and the modules set up. And if that is something that will help your teachers, and you're creating new courses a lot, then a Template would be what you would use for that. Management. We need to look at who's going to be responsible for managing and updating the course content. That is much more time-intensive on a Blueprint because it is consistently syncing and pushing out content to the courses-- the live courses. And then the priorities. Is maintaining a consistent structure and content across all courses a priority? Structure can be accomplished with a Template. The consistent content would be accomplished with a Blueprint. And then, how much customization do you want instructors to have in their individual courses? So before I go and demonstrate these different aspects of Templates and Blueprints, and show you how to set them up, are there any questions or things that you want to ensure I cover either today, or I can let you know it would be something that I would cover for the teachers next week? No questions? Feel free to grab the mic, or you can put your questions in the chat. Yeah. I am looking at the chat and will try to monitor that. But Karin is in here, too. And she's monitoring the chat. So please feel free to ask your questions. But we're an intimate group, so you can grab your mics, as well. OK. So I'm actually going to change my sharing. So I'm going to stop sharing for just a minute so that I can share my Canvas. And now I have to-- Oh, it shut down on me. Let me open that up again. OK. So here I am. (DESCRIPTION) She opens to the Canvas page OTAN California Education Courses, Sandboxes, Dana's Sandbox. The Courses tab is open showing a list of courses. (SPEECH) I'm in my Canvas instance. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Admin shield icon below the account profile pic in the left menu column. (SPEECH) I'm actually-- because this is for admins, you should see your Admin Shield here. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the shield and a menu opens with two options under All Accounts: Dana's Sandbox and OTAN California Adult Education Courses. (SPEECH) when you go to your Admin Shield-- I'm going to go into my Dana's Sandbox, but you would have your instance here. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the first course in the list titled Template. (SPEECH) when you go into your account structure, you will see I have here a Template, which I'm going to show you what that would look like. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the next course in the list, BP underscore 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) then I have my Blueprint which I've named with the naming convention BP to start so that it tells me, when I'm looking at-- when you start getting pages and pages of courses, it's really nice to know that this would be a Blueprint course, and not one that you would open up for enrollments. So I have my Blueprint for my Intro to Culinary Arts, and (DESCRIPTION) She points to the cascading square icon next to the title. (SPEECH) it's also indicated that it's a Blueprint with this icon. Whereas with the Template, it's a different icon. But (DESCRIPTION) She points to the solid blue cascading square icon next to the Template, the squares cascading to the left instead of the right. (SPEECH) seeing those will also visually help you know that it's a Template or a Blueprint course. And then these are my associated courses. So (DESCRIPTION) She points to the last two courses on the list, titled 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts and 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) BP_1.0 is how I started the naming convention for my Blueprint. But then as it populates into my associated courses, I've named those with 1.1, 1.2, et cetera. So these would all be Intro to Culinary Arts, associated with my Blueprint Intro to Culinary Arts. Any questions so far? (DESCRIPTION) Karin de Vareness replaces Dana while she speaks. (SPEECH) KARIN DE VARENESS: You have a question in the chat. Angela asks whether or not admins and sub-accounts also see the Admin Shield. DANA THOMPSON: If you are a sub-account admin, yes, you will see this shield over here. So if you are in a role where you are being told you need to be the admin for this sub-account, and you don't see this shield, then that's where you need to reach out to your Canvas administrator-- your overall Canvas administrator and let them know that you don't have the admin access. So if you want to take a minute, I'll give you a minute to log into your Canvas. And go ahead and click on your Admin Shield, if you have one. And so I'm showing you my sub-account. So this Dana's Sandbox is a sub-account. So it's not so populated. But (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield and clicks on the OTAN option, opening the OTAN course list. (SPEECH) if I were to come in to the OTAN instance-- and you can see here that there's a ton of courses-- 17 pages worth of a list of courses. And so this is where it can get overwhelming, if you don't have a good naming convention that you think about ahead of time. But (DESCRIPTION) She points to the icon next to the second course on the list titled, Sandbox Master Template. (SPEECH) as I'm looking through all of these, I can see right here that this Sandbox Master is a Blueprint course, right? (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down through the list of courses that start with, Sandbox, underscore, then have a last name at the end. (SPEECH) And as I'm looking through here, all of these Sandbox courses probably were started from that Blueprint. I can also come up here and show only my Blueprint courses. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls up to the top of the list and clicks the checkbox next to. Show only blueprint courses. Only three courses remain on the list. (SPEECH) So if I know that I need to go in and update a Blueprint course, maybe put in some content that needs to be pushed out to the associated courses, and I don't want to go through those lists, I can come up here and show only my Blueprint courses. And so now you can see that, even though we had 17 pages of courses in OTAN, we, right now, only have three Templates-- or Blueprints, one of them being my example, Intro to Culinary. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the box again to remove the checkmark and the rest of the courses appear. (SPEECH) you can then toggle that off. And Blueprint courses should be renamed from Templates. Yeah, so when-- let me come back to my sub-account because it's easier to see these as examples. You (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield and selects Dana's Sandbox to go back to her list of courses. She points to the first course titled template. (SPEECH) can see here, I just put Template. If you've got sub-accounts-- so maybe you have-- whether it's based on building or department, you might have sub-accounts structured in that way. So for me, this Template would probably make more sense if I put the name of the sub-account underscore Template just so that when you're looking at all of the courses from all of the sub-accounts, if you're that main admin, you can really understand which Template goes where, if they're going to be different. They may not be different. But the key is that the Template or the Blueprint-- so my Template here for Dana's Sandbox sub-account cannot be used in any of the other sub-accounts as a Template because they're not in the same tree. So if I wanted this Template to be utilized by many sub-accounts, I would need to put it in the main root account. Sorry. [CLEARS THROAT] Does that make sense? I may have totally confused you. But think about the tree. (DESCRIPTION) She gestures with both hands making a triangle tree-shape from the top point down to the wider bottom. (SPEECH) And if you've got sub-accounts or sub-courses down here in the bottom of the tree, that Template or that Blueprint Master needs to be able to be above it in that tree so that it can filter down. So I can't have a Template in the bottom sub-account and expect it to be able to be used in sub-accounts above it or next to it. So think about, visually, that tree. They have to be in the same structure. OK. So here I am in my sub-account, sub-account Admin. And I'm just going to show you first what my Template looks like. Actually, what I'm going to do-- can't do that because I have a Template. What we're going to do is in our sub-account, or even the main account, every sub-account has a course-- or a aub-account navigation here over on the left-hand side. (DESCRIPTION) She points to a column of options under the heading, Courses, to the right of the left-most menu with the Admin shield. (SPEECH) I'm going to come all the way down to the bottom and click on Settings. When you're looking at a Canvas course and you click on Settings, that's going to be the settings for that course. But when you're looking at the admin course structure courses, then this is the settings for that sub-account course structure. So I'm going to click on Settings. (DESCRIPTION) She goes to the Settings page with the Settings tab open showing the Account Settings for the Account Name Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) And feel free, if you have your Canvas open, to do this with me, if you would like. But now I'm looking at the settings for this sub-account. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the top of the screen where it says, OTAN California Adult Education, arrow, Sandboxes, arrow, Dana's Sandbox, arrow, Settings. (SPEECH) And I know I'm in the sub-account because here's the OTAN main account. And then I'm in a sub-account of sandboxes. And then I'm in my sub-sub-account of Dana's Sandbox. So, like I was saying before, if you-- I created this Template or this Blueprint in my Dana's Sandbox. That means I can only use it for anything that's in my sandbox, or if I start creating more sub-accounts underneath it. But whatever I create in Dana's Sandbox cannot be applied to any of the courses in the sandbox sub-account or in the main course structure. But (DESCRIPTION) She points to OTAN California Adult Education. (SPEECH) if I created a sandbox Template or Blueprint here, I could apply that to any sub-accounts underneath that. (DESCRIPTION) She points to Sandboxes, then to Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) OK. [LAUGHING] So here I am in my sub-account called Dana's Sandbox. And if I scroll down here, these are all the settings for this sub-account. So it can be different than the other sub-accounts. But I can come down, and as I scroll down here, you can see that I have this course Template. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the heading, Course Template. It has a dropdown menu with TEMPLATE selected. Below it reads, The selected course template will be used for all new courses. Below is an Update Settings button. (SPEECH) what I can do is indicate what I want to be-- for any new courses to be created in my sub-account, they will take on this Template. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the dropdown to show the other options: Inherit (no template selected), no template selected, JUICE Sandbox: Template, and Template. (SPEECH) I can do No Template, and it would just be a blank Canvas course. Or I can inherit from another course, but I don't have any selected yet. Or the JUICE Sandbox Template, that is probably a Template that is living in the sandbox sub-account, which I am under. So I could pull from that. But the JUICE Sandbox can't pull from mine. Can't go-- it's like that backwards mapping type thing. Or I could choose the Template that I created. For right now, I'm going to choose No Template and update my settings because I want to show you the difference. (DESCRIPTION) She selects, No Template Selected, then clicks the Update Settings button. (SPEECH) OK. So now I just have a default sub-account. I'm going to come into the courses in my sub-account. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Courses at the top of the left menu. She clicks the plus sign Course button in the upper right corner of the courses menu. An Add New Course window opens. (SPEECH) Here are all my courses again. And if I were to come over here and create a new course, because I turned that Template feature off to-- and set it to No Template, I'm going to create this course. And this is going to be Demo. We're going to do TemplateDemoNoTemplate so you can see the difference. And (DESCRIPTION) She types the name in the Course Name field with no spaces. (SPEECH) I'm just going to make my reference code the same as my course name. This (DESCRIPTION) She copy and pastes the course name into the Reference Code field. (SPEECH) is in my sub-account. And I'm going to put it in the default term, OK? So (DESCRIPTION) She chooses Dana's Sandbox for the Subaccount and she chooses Default Term for Enrollment Term. (SPEECH) I'm creating a new course. And I'm going to click on Add Course. So now you can see this course in my list of courses in my sub-account. When (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Template Demo No Template at the bottom of her course list. (SPEECH) I open up this new course, it's completely empty. There's no modules. There's no home page. My (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down on the left menu of the course page and clicks on Settings to go to the Settings page with the Course Details tab open. (SPEECH) navigation is set up so that I would have to come in to my settings for this course. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Navigation tab which shows a long list of items, such as Home, Announcements, Assignments, etc. (SPEECH) And I don't want my students seeing all of this. I want them to see as few things in that navigation as possible to reduce the noise. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to the bottom of the list where it says, Drag items here to hide them from students. She drags items from the list down below to move them to the bottom, items such as Office 365, Attendance, Badges, etc. As each item is added to the list, written below them appears, Page disabled, won't appear in navigation. (SPEECH) And so I would have to come here and manually-- for every course that I'm a teacher in, I would have to come down and update my navigation manually. So this is taking some time. What I do when I'm teaching is I only show my students, my modules, my syllabus-- if I have a syllabus. Because I mostly teach at the K-12, I hide the people. But if you're at the adult level and you want them to see the other people in their course, you can do that. I want them to see the grades. But everything else, I want them to access through modules. So (DESCRIPTION) She continues dragging items down until she is left with only, Home, Announcements, Grades, Syllabus, People, and Modules. (SPEECH) you can see I went from 30 things in my navigation down to 6. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to the bottom and clicks the Save button. (SPEECH) So when I save this, you can see now that my navigation, all of these are hidden from my students. And they see fewer, right? I (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Settings page and points to the left menu, where many of the items now have a crossed-out eye icon next to them. (SPEECH) also have to come in here and choose an image so that there's an image associated with the course card on the student's Dashboard. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Choose Image box under the Course Details tab. (SPEECH) I would need to come in and turn on any feature options that I want on, like if it's not turned on automatically at the root level. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Feature Options tab at the top of the Settings page. (SPEECH) And then I would have to come to my Home, and create my home page, (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Home option at the top of the left menu. The Home page says Create a Module in the center with options on the right menu and across the top. (SPEECH) and then go in and set up my modules because I use modules. And I would have to do all of that setup before I could even think about starting my content, OK? So that is what we're going to try and avoid by implementing a Template. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to come back to my sub-account. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin Shield and clicks on Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) And I'm going to come back down here to Settings. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down the left menu and clicks on Settings. (SPEECH) And I'm going to scroll all the way down. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls to the bottom of the Course Details tab. (SPEECH) And instead of saying No Template, there's a Template here that I created. So (DESCRIPTION) She highlights the Template option from the dropdown menu. (SPEECH) it's a course that I did all of that setup, and created a home page, and created a module structure. So basically, saved my teachers about-- depending on how intricate they want to be, you could save them anywhere from 10 to-- 10 minutes, to half an hour, to even longer by just having that set up done for them. So I'm going to choose my Template. So as the admin, I had to do all of that once and saved it as a course. No students will go into that Template course. But (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Update Settings button. She clicks Courses from the left menu, then the Plus sign Course button to open the Add a New Course window. (SPEECH) now when I come back to my Admin Courses List and I create a new course, this one's going to be my demo, TemplateDemoYesTemplate. [CHUCKLING] (DESCRIPTION) She types the name in the Course Name field with no spaces. (SPEECH) So I'm going to, again, make my reference the same, put it in my sub-account, and make my default term. And I'm going to add this course. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Add course, and is taken back to the course list in Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) So now, I assign the teacher to this course. And they come into their course, and look at what is already done for them. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks, Template Demo Yes Template to go to the empty course home page. (SPEECH) So I don't have a home page yet, although I could do that. Well, there should be a home page, and there should be modules. It may take a minute. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield and clicks Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) I'm going to come back here to Dana's Sandbox, and I'm actually going to-- oh, the reference code is what shows up up here. So (DESCRIPTION) She points to the OTAN California Adult Education at the top of the page. From the course list, she clicks on 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts to go to the course homepage. (SPEECH) if I come in to-- let's say I come into this Intro to Culinary Arts. This is the reference code right here. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the upper left corner of the page where it says, 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) So your main code that is sometimes imported from the SIS, it could be this really long name that doesn't make sense. So the reference code is what would show up here in the breadcrumb. Yeah. (DESCRIPTION) The course homepage says Banner at the top, then Welcome below, with text that begins, Add a short introduction (welcome) message in this spot. Below is the heading, Quick Access Links, with the text, Course buttons, below. (SPEECH) OK. So taking a look at this culinary course, this, you can see, has a home page with some instructions. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the left menu with options such as Announcements, Syllabus, Modules, etc., some of them with crossed-out eye icons next to them. (SPEECH) it has the navigation already set up so that the navigation is hidden-- most of what the students don't need to have access to, because they're going to access it through-- yeah-- through the reference, or through the modules. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on Modules in the left menu, which shows the modules and submodules. The first module is titled Teacher Module (Do not Publish). The submodules are About this Template, with a link to a document titled, Template Overview and Getting Started, and Resources, with a document titled Canvas Resources for Instructors. (SPEECH) when I click on Modules, you can see that there's a module for the teacher to give them kind of a this is how this Template works, and this is how you can modify it. Because we might have new teachers that haven't used the Template yet. Then (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to the second module, Canvas: Overview and Resources for Students with a link to a document titled, Canvas Resources for Students. (SPEECH) there's this Canvas resource for students, which every course should have because it allows the students to go in and, if they have a question, can easily, like a help desk-- right there. They're clickable. And (DESCRIPTION) The third module is titled, Welcome to Class: Your Journey Begins Here! Below is the Class overview, instructor information, class resources, and class question board. (SPEECH) then it has a "welcome to your class" kind of Template setup with pages, where they could plug-in the class overview, their information, any class resources, and have a question board. Again, (DESCRIPTION) Each option has a circle icon with a line through it next to it. (SPEECH) nothing's published. So they get to choose what is published and not published. And then a suggested module progression, where they can engage, explore, expand, evaluate, extend. So looking at those Es. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to Module 1: Title or Theme or Dates. Under Engage is, Module overview and to do list. Under Explore is Module Presentation. Under Expand is, Group discussion and individual assignment. Under Evaluate is, Quiz. Under Extend is, Module Wrap-up and looking ahead. (SPEECH) And so you can see that this is a course that was set up. And the teacher can then come in and duplicate, and-- oh, I could totally do that-- duplicate this. And (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down through the rest of the modules which are filled out specifically for the Intro to Culinary Arts course, such as Presentation on Kitchen Safety, Individual Assignment: kitchen safety plan, Quiz Kitchen Safety, etc. (SPEECH) now we've got-- so week one, they duplicated the Template module, the example module, and then plugged in their information for week one, Introduction to Culinary Arts. And (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to Week 2: Knife Skills and Food Preparation. (SPEECH) then in week two, it's the same structure, which helps our students stay engaged because they don't have to try and figure out every week what they're supposed to do, because it's consistent. And now they're going to learn about knife skills, and food preparation, and then keep adding. But the nice thing is that that initial course setup is done for them, right? So I'm going to-- just for kicks and giggles, I'm going to come back here, and open up my YesTemplate, and see if it's been populated now. So (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Dana's Sandbox course list and clicks on TemplateDemoYesTemplate. (SPEECH) remember, this is the one that I made after I put in the settings that all new courses should start with a Template. (DESCRIPTION) It opens the course home page with the Welcome message and navigation menu. (SPEECH) And there it is. So I just didn't give it enough time that first time. So it does take a minute because it has to copy all of that content in there. But this is the one that I just made in this session today. And (DESCRIPTION) She highlights the title at the top of the page, Template Demo Yes Template. (SPEECH) I can come in here, and I can either remove the banner-- So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Edit button in the upper right corner and goes to a rich text editor. (SPEECH) as a teacher, all I have to do is come in here and either upload my own banner that I can make in Canva, or Google Drawing, or whatever, or I-- and then I can come down here and add my welcome message. And then I can add my course buttons. (DESCRIPTION) She highlights the text, Course Buttons, under the Quick Access Links heading. (SPEECH) But the design was done for me. So I don't have to mess with that. I don't have to spend my time trying to figure out how to do that because it's done. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Cancel to go back to the home page, then clicks Modules on the navigation menu. (SPEECH) the other thing that is also done for me is that I can come in here to Modules, and there's my teacher module. And there's my overview and resources for students. And there's a "welcome to your class" that I can just plug-in my information and publish. And then here's my module Template, where I can go in, and pick, and choose, and then just start copying and pasting my information in. But the design is already done. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on, Module Overview and To Do List under Engage in Module 1. (SPEECH) when I come here to the Overview and To Do List, it's already here. (DESCRIPTION) The Overview and To Do List page has on Overview heading with the text below, Use this space to introduce the major topics, concepts, themes for this module. Consider covering some main ideas that students should pay special attention, talk about any major projects coming up, etc. Under the To Do List heading it says, Help keep students on track by providing a To Do list in this space. Follow the organization of the Module (top to bottom) to keep the learning path clear and concise. Please see the sample below. A numbered list appears below. (SPEECH) And now that I'm thinking about it, Penny, we should have just done this with the dark course. But anyways, so I can come in and plug in the Overview for this week. I can plug in my To Do List for this week. And if I don't want this, with a Template I can delete it all and do my own thing, right? Because the Template is just to get your teachers started, and then it's all on them. So they can keep it, or they can start over. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield and selects Dana's Sandbox to go to the course list. (SPEECH) But having any time I come into my Dana's Sandbox sub-account, and I create a new course by either manually creating a new course or by doing an SIS upload, all of those new courses are going to start with this Template-- all of them in this sub-account. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Template link at the top of the course list. (SPEECH) when I come into this Template, this is where I actually went in and did those start-up tasks-- customizing the navigation bar, creating a home page, coming over to this Choose Home Page option and setting the page as a home page, because default is Modules. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Choose Home Page button from the right menu to open a window with the Pages Front Page Home Page option selected. (SPEECH) a lot of teachers don't know how to change that. And so they just let Modules be their home page, even if they don't want it to be their home page. But if they want a front page, that's done for them with this Template. The module structure has already been set up, and (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Syllabus button from the navigation menu to go to the Course Syllabus page with a Course Summary showing the date, details, and due dates. (SPEECH) the syllabus has already been set so that they can add their syllabus and the assignments. Anything with a due date or a grade will show up on the syllabus. OK. So let me look at a couple of these questions. OK. So, Angela, if you are in a different instance, you can't share Templates or Blueprints across instances. So the only way you can use the Templates that are in OTAN is if you are a sub-account in OTAN. Or I will upload this Template to the Canvas Commons, and you can download the Template into your instance, and then set it up from there. Karin, go ahead. KARIN DE VARENESS: So sorry. I uploaded the URLs from the Canvas Commons thinking that they would be able to use it. One of them is the Template that you're showing here that you created for OTAN, and the second is the second Template we created. So how can I-- DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. So if those are-- let me pull that open. Did I pass it? (DESCRIPTION) She opens the Commons page in Canvas. It has a search bar on top and panels of courses below, such as CA Adult Education 2023 Custom Template, Agency Admin Training, Canvas Training Video Library, etc. (SPEECH) OK, so here's the link that was in-- that's in the chat. Yeah. So what this is the link to the actual Template in the-- that's good question. So I am in Canvas Commons, but I'm logged in through OTAN. So I think that's why, because I'm accessing it through the AE California instructor. So (DESCRIPTION) She highlights the URL in her browser that begins with, AE California dot Instructure dot com slash accounts. (SPEECH) the link that you want-- So here's the Adult Education 2023 Custom Template, right? So if this is the one that you want, you can go into commons and search for it. Or (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the CA Adult Education 2023 Custom Template to open the template. (SPEECH) I can come over here and copy that resource link. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Copy Resource Link button on the right side of the Template page. (SPEECH) And that-- I'm going to-- let's post it in the chat and see if it's different. Yes, it's different. So it's-- KARIN DE VARENESS: Ah. That's smart. DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. If you want to share a resource from the Commons, you actually have to grab the link from the Commons. You can't grab it from your own instance. So now, the link that I just put in the chat, that will get you to this Template, which is not the one that I'm using. This is the one that OTAN created for all of the adult education, and before I started doing these. So the one that I have-- KARIN DE VARENESS: We have two. We have yours, as well, on our Canvas. So that was Template 1-2. Yeah. DANA THOMPSON: OK. KARIN DE VARENESS: We have it. We like your Template, too. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks, back to search, at the top of the page, to go back to the list of courses. (SPEECH) DANA THOMPSON: Excellent. So that link in the-- is this first one. And then you can see-- you can either go through all of these-- KARIN DE VARENESS: (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to show more courses. (SPEECH) Actually, you can go to the filter and hit California Adult Education Canvas Commons in the filter. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Filter button to the right of the search bar to open the Filter Results menu, with options to filter through type, such as courses, modules, assignments, quizzes, etc., content types, and grade levels, (SPEECH) DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. KARIN DE VARENESS: And go scroll all the way down. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down the heading, Shared With, with the, All (includes public resources), option selected, the other options being, OTAN California Adult Education Courses, California Adult Education Canvas Commons, OTAN Sandbox, and Putting English to Work. (SPEECH) DANA THOMPSON: And all of you can do that, as well. So OTAN or California Adult? KARIN DE VARENESS: California Adult Ed Canvas Commons. DANA THOMPSON: (DESCRIPTION) She selects the radio button next to California Adult Education Canvas Commons. (SPEECH) Yeah. So-- KARIN DE VARENESS: Sorry to interrupt you, take you on a little rabbit hole. DANA THOMPSON: No, you're good. Please interrupt. So when you are in Commons-- the rest of you-- and you're not in OTAN's, but you're in your instance, you can go over here on the global navigation and click on Commons. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Commons button on the leftmost menu under Account. (SPEECH) then you can go over to the filter and choose the California Adult Education Canvas Commons. And that will show you everything that has been shared with this collaborative that is not available to anybody who uses Canvas. So you have the Custom Template. You've got some agency training, the video library, teacher training. So a lot of things in here that are available just because you're a part of the consortium here with the adult ed-- California Adult Ed. OK? And you can even-- it works very much like any kind of search. I (DESCRIPTION) She types template in the search bar, which shows three results. (SPEECH) can come up here and type in Template. And then you get just those that you can use that have been designed to be a Template. It doesn't mean that you have to use it as a Template, but you can start there. So this is the one that I shared in the chat. But (DESCRIPTION) She points to the middle result, CA Adult Education 2023 Custom Template. Then she clicks on the first result, CA Adult Education Custom Template. (SPEECH) if you wanted this one instead, again, you can come in here. And if you are in your instance you can download this Template straight to a course. So (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Import/Download button on the right side of the template. (SPEECH) you would import and download, and then it would tell you all of the courses that you have available. (DESCRIPTION) It opens the Import/Download menu, which says, Import into Canvas, above a search bar that says, Search for a course. It has a list of courses, All and DART, each with a checkbox, and then below it has buttons that say, Import into Course and Download. (SPEECH) So I can come over here and say this-- I'm going to search for a course in my instance called TemplateDemoNoTemplate and see if it finds it. No courses found. Let's look. Oh, because I'm not a teacher in any of these. That's why. So if you don't see your course here, then you could download it, and then upload it into the course that you want. (DESCRIPTION) She X's out the menu and clicks the Copy Resource Link button. (SPEECH) And then I'm going to go ahead and copy this resource and paste it in the chat. So now you have both of those direct links so you don't have to search for them. But that's another way that you can really streamline, as an admin, your workflow. So instead of coming in here and recreating your own Template-- unless you want to. Unless you want to change the branding, and put your colors, or those kinds of things. But if you're happy with the OTAN ones and the California Adult Ed one, download them into a course, that doesn't have students. So you could come over here to your Admin Shield and create a new course. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on Dana's Sandbox to go to the course list. (SPEECH) I'm going to come in here to the TemplateDemoNoTemplate. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the course name and goes to the course's homepage. (SPEECH) And if I wanted to import from the Commons, I would choose that. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Import from Commons button on the right side to go to the Commons home page, where she clicks the Filter button. (SPEECH) And then I'm going to come over to my filter so I know I'm getting the right one. And (DESCRIPTION) She selects, California Adult Education Canvas Commons under Shared With. (SPEECH) I'm going to go to my California Adult Education Canvas Commons, and I'm going to download this one right here. So you (DESCRIPTION) She points to the CA Adult Education 2023 Custom Template. (SPEECH) can see it's been downloaded 36 times. And three people have starred it, meaning they're going to come back to it. But I'm going to go ahead and click on that, and I'm going to import. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Import/Download button. (SPEECH) And again, it's not letting me. So I'm going to-- I'm showing you all of the ways-- download. There's (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Download button in the Import/Download menu. (SPEECH) like 10 billion ways to do something with Canvas. So it downloaded what's called a Course Cartridge, OK? So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield and clicks Dana's Sandbox, then clicks on Template Demo No Template. (SPEECH) now I can come back to that course because it didn't-- KARIN DE VARENESS: Of course, it doesn't work when you need it to, Dana. Luckily, she knows 10 ways. DANA THOMPSON: Exactly. So I tried to import from Commons, but it didn't let me. So I downloaded the Course Cartridge. And now what I'm going to do is import from existing content. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Import Existing Content button from the course home page. (SPEECH) And I'm going to upload that Canvas Course Export Package. (DESCRIPTION) From the Content Type dropdown menu under Import Content, she selects, Canvas Course Export Package. (SPEECH) And that should be in my Downloads file. So (DESCRIPTION) Under Source, she clicks on the Choose File button to open a file finder window. She clicks Downloads, then clicks on the first option. (SPEECH) I'm going to come over here to Downloads, and there it is right there-- because it's the last thing I downloaded. Otherwise, I don't know if I would know that. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Open button. (SPEECH) And I'm going to-- [LAUGHTER] (DESCRIPTION) She selects, All content, under Content. (SPEECH) I'm going to import all content. And what I like to do-- this is just a personal preference. (DESCRIPTION) Under options, she selects, Adjust events and due dates, which opens Date Adjustment. She selects Remove dates. (SPEECH) I'm going to adjust events and due dates, and remove all of those. Because I have found it's easier to remove all of the dates and then put in the dates that you want instead of shifting the dates, because it never lines up how we think it should line up. And then it's a lot of clicking. So I just like to start from scratch. And then I'm going to import this. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Import button. (SPEECH) And now it's imported. So remember, this was that blank Canvas. But now when I come home, (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Home button from the navigation menu, which opens an empty home page. (SPEECH) see? It always takes a minute. Let's try this again. KARIN DE VARENESS: You are not going to get a break today, I don't think. DANA THOMPSON: I know. Sheesh. OK, so we're going to come down here to Settings. So this is the process I would go through. I found that Template that I liked in Commons. I imported it into my course here. And now we're going to pretend it all imported correctly. We can even check and see if I gave it enough time-- not yet. But once you can see that everything is in here correctly, then you would come down to Settings and-- no, because I'm in the course. So when you're in a course that you want to be a Template, it's up here at the top. I'm going to enable this course to be a course Template. (DESCRIPTION) Under the Course Details tab in Settings, she clicks the checkbox next to, Enable course as a Course Template. (SPEECH) Now when I go to my sub-account settings, this will be one of my options as a Template that I can choose. But this step is very important, and I should have done it first. But you have to enable it as a course Template in order to be able to choose it as a course Template. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Update Course Details button at the bottom of the page. (SPEECH) now that I've enabled it-- KARIN DE VARENESS: So-- DANA THOMPSON: Go ahead. KARIN DE VARENESS: So maybe go ahead and press update, and there it is. DANA THOMPSON: And here it is. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Home to Template Demo No Template, with the Welcome message and other info now populated. (SPEECH) See, I just didn't take long enough. So now we have the Template. KARIN DE VARENESS: And sometimes I do it three or four times, and you get three or four Templates added on to it over time. So it happens sometimes. DANA THOMPSON: Yes, it does. KARIN DE VARENESS: But maybe we should clarify. Is everyone with us? Or that was a lot of info, that little rabbit hole. Yeah. But that's the way it works. And I'm so happy that you're human, too, using Canvas. DANA THOMPSON: Well, and that's the thing I found, is if it's not working, there's another way to do it. I have a preference that I'll try first. And then if it doesn't work, I'll just try doing it a different way. So once you figure out what those different ways are, then it's easy to just continue going. But sometimes-- KARIN DE VARENESS: And the help desk is always an option. OTAN has that 24/7 tech help. You just call any time of day, and 99% of the time you get someone really great. DANA THOMPSON: Yeah, so this in here. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Help button from the leftmost menu, which opens the Help menu with an illustration of a panda looking at a map and various links for resources. (SPEECH) But you can see now that this is a course-- remember, this is the one that was not a Template. (DESCRIPTION) She highlights the course title at the top of the page, Template Demo No Template. (SPEECH) But now I want it to be a Template. So I'm actually going to come down-- before I set it as a Template, I'm going to come down to Settings. And I'm going to change the name to AdultEdTemplate2023. (DESCRIPTION) She types in the name in the Name field of the Course Details tab. (SPEECH) OK? And I want to change the course code, which is that reference code that-- when you did it manually. Again, (DESCRIPTION) She pastes the same name in the Course Code field. (SPEECH) I've enabled it as a course Template. So I want to keep that checked. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Update Course Details button. (SPEECH) then I'm going to come down here and update that because it's different than the other one, right? But (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin Shield and clicks Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) when I come into my sub-account, you can see here that now I have that AdultEd Template. And it has the icon, so I know it's a Template. So I now have two Templates in this sub-account. Unfortunately, you can only indicate one of them to be your Template when you're creating new courses. So this is where you might have your fall Template, or your fall 2023 Template. And then in the next fall, 2024, you might want to make some changes for that new term. So you create a new Template instead of updating the old one because you want to keep that old one for historical purposes and documentation. But then any new course in 2024 will get the new Template. But what I would need to do in my sub-account is come down to my sub-account settings, (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Settings from the left menu. She scrolls down to Course Template, and chooses Adult Ed Template 2023 from the dropdown. (SPEECH) and then come down here to where I'm going to choose which Template I'm going to use. And now I have the ability to choose that AdultEdTemplate2023. So now, any new course I create from here on out will have that new course Template instead of the original one that I had created earlier. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Update Settings button. (SPEECH) KARIN DE VARENESS: Don't forget to update, because I know we get used to all of our Google Drives, 365's, and it updates and saves automatically. And, of course, in Canvas, it doesn't. DANA THOMPSON: I've done that before, where I've done all of these changes, and then I've X'd out of the window to go do something else. And I come back, and none of my changes had been saved. Because you have to click on Save in Canvas. [CHUCKLING] OK. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin Shield, then Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) coming back to my sub-account course list, you can see that I now have these different Templates to get my teachers started and to give them a Template to then just be able to avoid having to do all of those manual tasks in the beginning that are kind of annoying if you want consistency as a teacher, right? But once those courses are-- those new courses are created, and they've pulled in the Template, then there's no changing that you can do to those courses that have been created, manually or SIS. But if you want the ability to update content and push it out, because I have a Blueprint course that is attached to all of my teachers in the different-- in my district. Say you've got five teachers teaching culinary arts at the different high schools or whatever, or the different adult schools, and you want the content to be consistent, and you want to provide it to them. Then that's when you would use a Blueprint. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the course title, BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) So, again, I mentioned that you can use a Template to start your Blueprint course so that you don't have to do all of those initial tasks again. But you can't have a Blueprint start your Template course, if that makes sense. Go ahead, Penny. PENNY PEARSON: Oh, Dana, I have a question about-- I love the idea of Blueprints because you do provide some control for, say, your administration and the content. But as that Blueprint course is created for Mrs. Smith, teacher, does that teacher have the option to either rearrange the modules or hide the modules in case they want to go through the content in a different order than what was originally presented in the Blueprint? DANA THOMPSON: Yes. Yeah, so there's different levels of control. So I'm going to come in here into my Blueprint course. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) this is a course that is set up, will never have enrollments-- student enrollments. And I would even go further to put the banner in, leave this placeholder text so that they know this is where you can come in and put in your message. But you do what you want to stay consistent across all of the courses. And then what you do in the Blueprint master course, before you push it out the first time-- before you push it out the first time-- is you have to enable it as a Blueprint course. OK? (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Settings. Under Course Details, the checks the box next to Enagle course as a Blueprint course. (SPEECH) So remember when I checked the other one as a course Template? This one you're going to check as a Blueprint course. So my progression suggestion is, first, just come in and create the course to the point where you want to be able to push it out to teachers. So there are some times where, for accreditation purposes, you want the whole semester done, right? So you're going to have somebody come in and create that course from start to finish for the semester with all of the content that you want every teacher to have included in their course, and the progression, and whatever the case may be-- the images, the links, the files. And then, once you've got that course done, then you would come here and enable it as a Blueprint course. And then you would start pushing it out to your associated courses. The other thing-- and then it's with the teachers. The other thing that I've seen people do a lot is they have this culinary course, and they want their teachers to teach the same content. And each week, they push out the new module, right? So the week one module, they have access to it in week zero so that they can customize it as they are allowed to. And then while they're teaching week one, you're building week two and pushing-- and then you let them know, OK, on Friday afternoons, we're pushing out the new content so that when they come back in on Monday, they have that next week's content. So you push it out a little bit by little bit. So you choose how that's going to work for you and your team. But the beauty of the Blueprint is, though, even if they've already started teaching, you can still sync the content. And you can still sync the updates. Whereas Templates, you cannot. So what can you sync? So (DESCRIPTION) Below Enable course as a Blueprint Course, is an option that says, General Locked Options, which has a filled-in radio button next to it. The text underneath says, Define general settings for locked objects in this course. Locked objects cannot be edited in associated courses. Below are options with checkboxes next to them: Content, Points, Due Dates, Availability Dates. Content is checked. (SPEECH) when you enable a course as a Blueprint course-- and the general locked objects, those locked objects mean those are the items that will be pushed out to your associated courses-- I'm getting hot, sorry-- and the teachers will not be able to update it. Or they can, but they need to know that every time you sync that Blueprint to the associated, it will overwrite what they changed. So it's good to have that conversation or communication, whether it's in the instructions-- this is what's going to be locked, this is what you can modify. And by default, the content is locked. Meaning anytime you push out a sync, it's going to update that content if the teacher changed it. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Points box. (SPEECH) You can lock points on assignments so that they can't change the points. And I found that to be very beneficial because you'll have some teachers that will make an assignment 50 points, and another teacher will make the same assignment 10 points. And then you've got the students in either classes communicating like-- and they're confused. Why is your teacher making it so many points, and mine's not? And how does that affect my grade? Again, I'm in K-12, and that happens a lot. It might not happen as much in adult education. They may not be comparing. But sometimes it's nice to lock those points. Due dates can be locked so that you have to be on this pace in order to complete the course. But, like Penny said, maybe they want to move things around and have different due dates based on what they're covering that week, and so you don't want to lock those due dates. And then those availability dates is when you have the assignments in there, and they have due dates. But you don't want them to see it until the due date, or until a week before, or whatever. So you can basically lock those assignments so students can't see them until that availability date. But you can leave those open for teachers to then have that control. (DESCRIPTION) Below the list with checkboxes, it says, Locked Objects by Type, with a radio button next to it. (SPEECH) If you want to lock things by type-- So this is the default. And this is pretty controlled because it basically says, the Blueprint is controlling the content. The teachers can only control the points, the due dates, and the availability dates, unless I check those, right? But maybe you want to give them a little bit more control. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the radio button next to Locked Objects by Type, and a menu opens: Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Files, Quizzes, Course Pase. Each option says, no attributes locked, next to it. (SPEECH) So you're going to lock objects by type, and then define the settings for those types. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the arrow to the left of Assignments, then checks the box next to Content in the dropdown that opens. (SPEECH) if I wanted to lock just the content for assignments so every assignment that is connected to the Blueprint cannot be changed-- So every student, if the teacher publishes that assignment-- and that's the key. The teacher could not publish it, and then the student wouldn't see it. But if they're going to use this assignment, then they cannot change the content of that assignment. And maybe they can't change the points. But (DESCRIPTION) She checks the box next to Points in the dropdown. Due Dates and Availability Dates are left unchecked. (SPEECH) I'm going to let them change the due dates and the availability. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the arrow next to Discussions to open the dropdown menu with the same options as Assignments. (SPEECH) Let's say in Blueprint discussions-- and I say that because these are items that are created in the Blueprint and pushed out to the associated courses-- it may not prevent the teacher from creating different assignments and different discussions that are not connected to the Blueprint. So these are just ones that are connected to the Blueprint. So maybe discussions. I want them to be free for the teacher to modify because they know their court, or they know their students. And there may be some appropriate discussions or not appropriate discussions. And so I'm going to give them complete control, and not control the discussions. (DESCRIPTION) She opens the dropdown menu under Pages, which just has Content has an option. She checks the box next to Content. (SPEECH) Pages. I want the content of my pages to be controlled. They can add other pages with their customized content, but the pages that are coming from the Blueprint will be locked. And then, again, with course pace, you can control the content or not. So you can come in here and kind of either lock down or open up the things you want your teachers to be able to modify. Go ahead, Penny. PENNY PEARSON: Yeah, Dana, just as you're going through this, I'm curious-- just because I'm tying it back to your other comments. So if this is a Blueprint course, and I'm locking all the pages in the content, but a teacher adds another page, if I push a new update to them, that added page that the teacher made goes away? Is that correct? DANA THOMPSON: No what goes away is if I locked the content on all my pages. And the teacher can still go in and make changes to those pages. But as soon as I push an update out, anything that was locked will be overwritten. So it doesn't get rid of pages they create, but it does get rid of changes they make to locked areas. PENNY PEARSON: To locked content. OK, that makes sense. No, that makes sense. DANA THOMPSON: Yeah, because they can still go in and edit any of these items. But what they need to know, is if you're teaching this course, just know that all of the pages are controlled so that-- and we're pushing out updates every so often. And any time there's an update, if you made a change to a Blueprint page, it's going to be overwritten. But (DESCRIPTION) She unchecks the Content box under Pages. (SPEECH) if I don't lock it, then what happens is they will change that page and it breaks the sync. So if it's a page that you need them to be able to get those updates, it's very important that they know that if they make changes to that page, they're going to lose their changes every time you sync. Because they can make changes, if you don't have it locked down. They can make changes, but they're going to lose those changes. If it isn't locked down, they can change those pages, and then it breaks that sync. And it's no longer a Blueprint page or a Blueprint assignment. Does that make sense? It's kind of hard to wrap your mind around until you actually start using them. PENNY PEARSON: Yeah. I see Marion's comment, too, about, "It's too bad they can make changes on a locked page." DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. PENNY PEARSON: So that would be confusing. There'd have to be a lot of teacher communication on that. DANA THOMPSON: And what I've seen some people do is color code areas that are locked so that it's easy for the teacher to know, oh, I don't want to touch the stuff that's on this page because it's got a background of yellow. Which then you get into accessibility, and so you have to be very careful with that, too. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Modules in the navigation menu. (SPEECH) But it does-- and that's where, when you're looking at your Blueprint pages, I would always-- OK, so I didn't put it in here, or I removed it. But (DESCRIPTION) She points to the top of the Modules page above the first module, Canvas: Overview and Resources for Students. (SPEECH) I would always put a module up here that is not meant to be published that is just for the teacher's information. And in that module-- I put it in the Template. But in that module, I would make it very clear that these are the things that you can change, but then, no, it breaks the sync. So if there is an update, you won't get it. Or these are the areas that, if you change, will be overwritten when we make a sync-- so that it's very clear for them. That's why-- KARIN DE VARENESS: You're saying-- DANA THOMPSON: --out is so important. KARIN DE VARENESS: Sorry to interrupt. There's another comment from Marion. Could one Add View only at the top? DANNA THOMPSON: You could Add View only at the top, but it doesn't mean they can't change it. They could still go into-- the teacher could still go into Edit, make some changes. But if you put View Only up at the top, and in your instructions you're telling the teacher anytime you see View Only, those are areas that will be overwritten if you make changes. Yeah. That's a good way to do it, too. And I don't know if they're working on a way to control that a little bit better. But it's just, when you're planning out using a Blueprint, again, the benefit is that you can push updates throughout the year. But the drawback is that you do risk-- if the intent is to keep it completely locked down so that they're teaching the same thing, and they go and make changes, do you update back to the original intent before they teach the students the change? You kind of have to-- there needs to be some forethought in it, and planning, and then communication so it's very clear. So I didn't make-- I didn't save those changes. So I'm going to come back down here to Settings, and I'm going to-- OK. So (DESCRIPTION) She points to the Enable course as a Blueprint Course area under Course details. She points to the checkmark next to Content. (SPEECH) right now, this is set so that content is locked, right? But the teachers have the ability to change points, due dates, availability dates. They do have the ability to add pages and assignments that are customized for their course that are not attached to the Blueprint. So then what happens is, if I come in here on the admin side-- (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Admin shield, then selects Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) and actually, what I'm going to do, I'm going to come over here to another tab, and I'm going to open up one of the ones that's linked to it. So again, this is a Blueprint course. That's (DESCRIPTION) She points to BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) the one that we're working in here. I'm going to open up one of these dissociated courses in this tab so we can see both. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) So you can see here this content on the front page is the Blueprint content, right? I (DESCRIPTION) She clicks edit at the top of the course home page to open the rich text editor. (SPEECH) can come in here, and I can edit and add my "Welcome to my course. I hope you enjoy the semester. (DESCRIPTION) She types in the text box. (SPEECH) We will be learning a lot of information on how to run a restaurant." Something like that, right? And I'm going to leave the "if you're accessing this course from a mobile device," so that the students can have that. And (DESCRIPTION) She deletes the Course Buttons text under the Quick Access Links heading. (SPEECH) then I'm going to-- I'm not going to use buttons. But I'm going to say week one and week-- (DESCRIPTION) She types Week 1, then highlights it, and clicks the link icon at the top of the editor. (SPEECH) I'm just going to do my week one, and I'm going to link that. This is a whole other webinar, by the way. And I'm going to link that to my module week one that's in my course. (DESCRIPTION) She selects Course Link from the dropdown menu , which opens the Add menu, where she opens the dropdown menu under Modules. (SPEECH) It's one of my modules. And it's module-- let's do Week 1, Intro to Culinary Arts, which right now is not published. So (DESCRIPTION) She selects the module from the dropdown. (SPEECH) I need to remember to go and publish that. OK. So I've made some changes. And, (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Save button below the editor. (SPEECH) again, I need to click on Save so that when my students come in here, they can click on Week 1. And it will take them into my modules, directly to Week 1. Now, as the-- I'm going to go ahead and publish this. (DESCRIPTION) On the Modules page, she clicks the circle with a line through it next to the module heading, Week 1: Introduction to Culinary Arts and Kitchen Safety. She selects, Publish module and all items, from the dropdown. (SPEECH) As the teacher, I can see what items are connected to the Blueprint. And (DESCRIPTION) She points to the blueprint icons next to some of the items under the module. (SPEECH) this one is completely locked, right? (DESCRIPTION) She points to the blueprint icon with a padlock icon on top next to, Individual Assignment: Kitchen Safety Plan. (SPEECH) This one is connected, and it's unlocked. My (DESCRIPTION) She points to the blueprint icon without a lock next to, Group Discussion: Week 1 and Kitchen Safety. (SPEECH) assignments and my quizzes are locked. So I can come in here to my overview and to-do list, and it's connected to the Blueprint. And I can click on Edit, and I can make my changes. But this is meant to be consistent with everybody. So maybe I'm going to add an extra to-do item. So (DESCRIPTION) In the rich text editor, she adds a number 5 to the button of the To Do list. (SPEECH) I'm going to say on 5, you're going to create a menu in Google Slides for a wine pairing, let's just say, right? So I'm adding to what is already there. And I'm going to click on Save. Now, knowing that as Blueprinted but it's not locked, what I've just done-- because I've added information, I've edited this page-- it is no longer connected to the Blueprint. So (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Modules page. (SPEECH) if I went into the Blueprint and I came into that Week -- and I'm going to edit this, and I'm going to remove the to-do list. (DESCRIPTION) Back in the editor, she highlights and deletes the entire To Do List. She clicks the Save button. (SPEECH) OK, so now I am the admin modifying the Blueprint on the Canvas page that my teacher also edited. OK? And now I want to push out this change. So the change happens up here in this blue icon. (DESCRIPTION) She points to a blue Blueprint icon in the upper right corner of the screen. (SPEECH) So as a Template admin, as a Blueprint admin, I've made the change. And now I'm going to push it out. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the icon, which opens the Blueprint menu, which has the items, Associations 2, Sync History, and Unsynced Changes 1, which has the options below, Include Course Settings and Send Notification. It has a Sync button at the bottom. (SPEECH) And you can see that it's telling me I have two associations. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Associations, which goes to a page titled Associated, which has the courses 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts and 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) those associations are my 1.1 and my 1.2. So we saw that in my course list, OK? (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the X in the upper right corner to go back to the Blueprint menu, where she checks the boxes next to include course settings. (SPEECH) So I'm going to come back here, and I'm going to include course settings. And I'm going to send a notification to my teacher's inbox. (DESCRIPTION) She checks the box next to Send Notification, which opens another option, Add a Message, 0 out of 140. She checks the box next to it, which opens a text box, which she types into. (SPEECH) And I'm going to say, "Intro to Culinary Arts has been updated 2/22/24," right? So that way, they know that the courses have been synced. And so now I'm going to sync those changes. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Sync button. (SPEECH) And it's-- hopefully it won't take very long. But we know Canvas has been working for me today. So now it's syncing. So again, I made the changes in the course. And then in the course, synced it. I'm not in the course list. I'm in the Blueprint course. (DESCRIPTION) It finishes syncing. (SPEECH) OK. So now I can actually come and take a look at my sync history. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Sync History in the Blueprint menu, which shows the date and time and what was updated. Next to Module 1 Overview and To Do List, it says, Page, Updated, 1 exception. (SPEECH) So there's one exception. I want to see what that exception is. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the blueprint option next to the module title. (SPEECH) Oops. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Sync History again in the Blueprint menu. (SPEECH) Come back to Sync History. OK, I want to expand. There we go. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the arrow next to the Blueprint icon next to Module 1. A dropdown opens that says, Content changed exceptions: Default Term, 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts, 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) the content-changed exceptions is my 1.1 because the teacher had made changes to that page, right? So it did-- it broke that sync. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to show a sync of Canvas Resources for Students from a previous date. (SPEECH) And you can see, I can see the other sync. So this was a sync where I created the Intro to Culinary Arts and pushed it out to this-- the associated courses. But then I realized, ooh, I want to put in this Canvas Resources for Students page. And so I did that, and then pushed it out. And it updated both courses with that Canvas Resources for Students. So I did it once, and it went out to all the courses. But let's take a look. I'm going to come back. This is the 1.1, and we're going to refresh it. Now, (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Module 1: Overview and To Do List home page. (SPEECH) remember, I added that number 5, and it's still here. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the To Do List of five items. (SPEECH) So I broke that sync. It didn't get the update of removing to-do list, right? But if I come into 1.2-- let's open this in a new window so we can compare. (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the course list in Dana's Sandbox. (SPEECH) And remember, 1.2 is also linked to the Blueprint course. So I'm going to come into 1.2. And it looked exactly like 1.1. But now, when I come into modules and go to the overview for our week one-- which is this one right here, our overview and to-do list-- (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Module 1 Overview and To Do List on the Modules page. (SPEECH) I haven't touched this course yet. But notice my to-do list is gone because it did take the sync-- because it was locked. PENNY PEARSON: So, Dana, one question. DANA THOMPSON: Mm-hmm? PENNY PEARSON: If a teacher did make only one change to, say, module 1, but all of the other modules that are also part of the Blueprint, they would sync? Or did it break the sync for everything in that course? DANA THOMPSON: Only broke the sync for that Canvas item. So that Canvas page, or if they changed the assignment-- that Canvas assignment. Yeah. But remember, that's because in my Blueprint-- let's come back to the Blueprint. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Settings from the navigation menu to open the Course Details. She points to the Enable course as a Blueprint Course section, where General Locked Objects is selected. (SPEECH) Let's come back to my settings. The content is locked. So the locked objects cannot be edited in associated courses. And now I have to think through this one. Because, technically, that shouldn't have been able to be modified because it was locked. PENNY PEARSON: Yeah, I think that's where a lot of confusion would be that Marion-- what Marion was talking of, is if you say you've locked the content, and you can edit it, then, wait a minute, you just edited it. DANA THOMPSON: Right. PENNY PEARSON: (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the radio button next to, Locked Objects by type, then checks the box next to Content under Pages. (SPEECH) But it did break the sync, as you said it would. DANA THOMPSON: See how this one has a lock on it? (DESCRIPTION) She points to where it says, Content, next to Pages. Next to Content is a Blueprint icon with a padlock icon on it. (SPEECH) I went to by type, and then came in Content, and locked. That makes it so that no pages can be modified. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Update Course Details button. (SPEECH) let's try this now. Because I think this is where, still, I get confused. OK. So now I made that change in my settings. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Blueprint icon in the upper right corner. (SPEECH) So I'm going to come over here, and I'm going to include course settings in my sync changes. (DESCRIPTION) She checks the box next to Include Course Settings in the Blueprint menu under Unsynced Changes. (SPEECH) I don't need to send a notification this time. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Sync button. (SPEECH) But I'm going to sync that. PENNY PEARSON: Now, you still have it where you made the change to module 1, and you want to see that in the pushed-out course? Yeah. DANA THOMPSON: (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to the To Do List with five items on the Module 1: Overview and To Do List page. (SPEECH) So now-- PENNY PEARSON: It's still there. DANA THOMPSON: It's still there for the overview and to-do list. Let's-- and that's on a page, right? But let's come into, on this-- this is now the associated course. And (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Modules in the navigation menu. (SPEECH) when I come into one of these items that is showing as locked, the Class Overview, it's a page, and it has a locked item here. I (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on Class Overview, which has a padlock icon. At the top of the Class Overview page, it says, Locked: Content. (SPEECH) can come over to Class Overview, and the item is locked. So I cannot even edit it. (DESCRIPTION) She points to the padlock icon next to the word Locked in the upper right corner next to the Published box. (SPEECH) So that does make it that view only. And-- PENNY PEARSON: But you have to go in by those individual objects and lock them instead of locking the entire course? DANA THOMPSON: I went in and locked the page. (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Modules page. (SPEECH) And let me-- let's look at all the-- so that page is not locked. I'm looking at all of the Blueprinted ones. So this page is locked, (DESCRIPTION) Canvas Resources for Students. (SPEECH) Class Overview is locked. The instructor information is not. (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Modules page for BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) OK. So that's where-- coming into the Blueprint course, coming into Modules, that Class Overview page, when I come into Class Overview. And it shows that it's locked here, right? So let's look at one that's not locked. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Instructor Information module. It says Blueprint in the upper right corner where the other course said Locked. (SPEECH) So this instructor information is not locked. So in the Blueprint course, what I would do-- I want them to be able to change this, right? PENNY PEARSON: Right. DANA THOMPSON: So it's Blueprinted. So they're going to get this content. But I'm not going to lock it because I want them to change it. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Next button in the lower right corner to go to Class Resources. (SPEECH) But the next page in that module is these resources. And so say this is-- again, I'm not going to lock it because I'm going to give them resources, but I want them to add resources. Or I'm going to be pushing out resources throughout the semester, and I don't want them to break that sync. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Blueprint button in the upper right corner, and it changes to Locked. (SPEECH) So I do want to lock this so that they cannot change this page to add their own resources. They could add their own page with additional resources. But if I want to ensure that every time I add a new resource for the whole, they're going to get that sync-- so I'm going to lock it so they cannot unlock it in the instance. So now that I've locked this and I've changed something, I need to come back in here and sync it again. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the Blueprint icon in the upper right corner to open the Blueprint menu. She checks the Include Course Settings box, then clicks the Sync button. (SPEECH) this is Class Resources. It was not locked. Let's take a look once it's syncing. So it was that last step that I missed. So you can go in to each individual item and control whether it's locked or not locked. But you can't do that if you don't indicate in Settings that you want to have the ability to lock it or leave it unlocked. Does that make sense? So now I'm going to come into course modules and refresh. And that was under Class Resources. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Class Resources on the Modules page. (SPEECH) Maybe it didn't make it yet. (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Blueprint menu, where it says 2 next to Associations. (SPEECH) Associations. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Associations to go to the list of Associations. (SPEECH) So it says that the associations are still there, (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Blueprint menu and clicks Sync History, which says Updated for both Class Resources and Course Settings. (SPEECH) my sync history, updated, updated. So that should have applied to both of them. And those all changed to-- PENNY PEARSON: Gophers may maybe running slow. DANA THOMPSON: I think that's what it is. I think that's what I've been fighting all morning. OK, so I actually closed that out, which is good because I want to reload it completely. So that was 1.1. (DESCRIPTION) She clicks on the Admin Shield, then Dana's Sandbox, where she clicks 1.1 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) And I'm going to come into Modules. And it was not the teacher module. So let's get that out of the way. It was the Class Resources. And I'm wondering why there's no Blueprints. Oh, because it's this one down here. (DESCRIPTION) She scrolls down to the Welcome to Class module, which has Blueprint icons next to the submodules. (SPEECH) So they all have the same name and same modules. The links are different, but it's this one that is locked. See over here, it says that it's locked? (DESCRIPTION) She points to the padlock icon next to Class Resources. She clicks Class Resources, which says Locked in the upper right corner. (SPEECH) So this one, when I open it as the instructor, I can't change the content. So if I were to lock the assignment due dates, that would be-- I could come in and change the assignment content. But I couldn't change the assignment due date. That would be locked. So that's where, in the Blueprint-- let's open a new tab so I don't have to keep going back. In (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Admin Shield, then Dana's Sandbox, clicks BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts. (SPEECH) the Blueprint-- nah, this one. The settings, you're going to say what can you lock or unlock. So (DESCRIPTION) She clicks Settings to go to the Course Details, then scrolls down to the Locked Objects by Type list. (SPEECH) yes, the locked objects general would be all content, right? (DESCRIPTION) She clicks the radio button next to general Locked Objects, which has a checkmark next to Content. (SPEECH) But in order-- that will define what will be locked that I don't want my teachers to change. But then I have to do the next step, which is, this is a page I don't want them to change-- the Resources page. So I'm going to lock it. This just lets me indicate that I have the ability to. PENNY PEARSON: Gotcha. DANA THOMPSON: And then all of the other players-- PENNY PEARSON: I have a hypothetical question. DANA THOMPSON: Go for it. PENNY PEARSON: So Dana, I don't know if you do another session on this. But my mind is going, how does an agency prepare to create Blueprints for-- I mean, this is a great example, the culinary arts, of what is the process for I'm going to create this core versus we all agree we're going to use a certain curriculum? But then you also have the individualism of all these teachers that want to do other things, or they have other resources they want to show. So it's like, how does an agency pull all of those different bits and pieces together so next semester, when the Blueprint course is pushed out, some, if not all, or a majority, or whatever of those additional resources that teachers use could be included in that Blueprint course? I mean, it's like, how does an agency pull together the team and work with them to manage these things that you're talking about right here? Because each one, to me, has that level of, well, nuts I wanted to add this new thing on here. Yeah, I can add a page. But it's going to redirect my students off to some place that I don't really-- I want them to stay on this original resource page. Does that make sense? I mean, it seems like it's a big burden-- or big a big plan. I guess is what it-- not so much a burden. Because once you get it going, I could see it being very beneficial of providing teachers with the guidance they need in this situation of having the same curriculum for multiple classes at different times of day, et cetera. DANA THOMPSON: Right. And here's an example of when I use them in-- as a Canvas admin. I was an admin of an online high school. And in order to keep our accreditation, we had to ensure that we were meeting certain standards and assignments. And because it was an online high school, we had teachers from all over teaching the different courses. And whether they taught it first semester, and then another teacher taught it second semester, or they were-- we had 10 teachers, whatever the case may be, we had to make sure that we kept that consistency so that we could keep our accreditation. So we created Blueprints. And in that aspect, we created Blueprints of a semester at a time. And this is the stuff that you have to teach, and would lock it on the things that we didn't want them to change. But really communicating that when you're looking at your view, if it has a lock on it, that is something that you have to deliver. You can't hide it. It needs to be-- And then there's-- especially when you're going through WASC accreditation, they'd want to go in and spot check these courses. It's kind of like doing a classroom visitation, where they can go in and see, oh, yeah, those are locked. And it's published in this random teacher's course that we're looking at. So we had to communicate to them that this is your course. This is what you have to deliver. If (DESCRIPTION) On the Modules page, she clicks the plus sign next to Welcome to Class. It opens a menu that says, Add Item to Welcome to Class, with the Assignment option selected and the current list of assignments below. (SPEECH) you want to include additional resources to supplement what you're teaching, as long as you're not getting off track, then you have the ability to come in here and add another page or add another assignment. Just know that it won't sync to the main course. And then we had to communicate out that come next semester, we're going to give you our synced Blueprint course with all of the mandatory content in it. And if you have things that you want to reuse, you're going to have to go to your old course and copy those items over yourself. Because they're not part of the Template. (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Advantages and Disadvantages chart slide from the slide presentation, showing the advantages and disadvantages of Blueprint and Template. (SPEECH) So when you're looking at the pros and cons of Blueprints and Templates that we looked at earlier, you really have to think through, what is the goal of the course? Why are we using it? Is it simply so that every teacher has a starting point of a consistent look and navigation? Well, (DESCRIPTION) She goes back to the Guiding Questions slide. She highlights the first question, text, What is your primary goal? Are you looking to standardize content across existing courses or for new course creation? (SPEECH) in that case, if that's your goal, then you're probably looking at a Template. Because the Blueprint is great when you have to maintain that control over what's delivered and what's not. And being able to update that, whether it's throughout the semester or at every semester, but you need to keep those connections, then it would be a Blueprint. So what is the ultimate goal of creating this? That will help you decide whether you're going to do a Template or a Blueprint. And then once you've decided, OK, we're going to do a Blueprint, then it's really sitting down and doing that backwards mapping of what are we going to allow the teachers to edit and modify, and what are we going to keep locked, and how are we going to communicate that out. And there may be times where you have a Blueprint because you've got 10 teachers teaching culinary arts, but you've got one of your teachers that's constantly sending you great stuff. And you want all of your other teachers to have that, as well. Then I would put that in the Blueprint so that all of the teachers get it, rather than saying we've got-- she's got this great content, or he's got this great content. And they're going to need to copy it over to their own courses every semester, and everybody else just gets the basics. What is the ultimate goal? So if you have a team developing a course, then I would develop it as a Blueprint so that they could push it out. But any time they want to make a change-- and they need to understand that if it's a locked item, or if it's not a locked item, but it's connected, then things can be overwritten or lost. But it's-- every situation is different. It just really has to be thought through, which is why one of the disadvantages is it is very time-intensive on the setup to be a Blueprint. I hope that answered your question. PENNY PEARSON: Yeah. Yeah, it did, definitely. I can see that the planning piece would be very intensive. But once it was done, you've got quite a system set. DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. And I've also seen schools where they pushed out a Template, and the teachers all used a Template. And then they found-- take high school English, right? They found one teacher that just rocked it. And working in their department meetings, they all decided, we just all want her content or his content. So they will take that course and import that entire course into an empty shell so that there are no students in it, turn that into a Blueprint course. And the next semester, push all that content out to their teachers, and they all have that initial course. But they can still teach what they-- things that they were successful at, assignments, activities, whatever. But at least all that initial content is done, and they don't have to do that. And they're all starting from the same-- you know. And that's the UDL. That's leveling it so that everybody has access to all of the same material, instead of getting that teacher that rocks it, and that other teacher that is having a hard time showing up every day, which I've been both. [LAUGHTER] PENNY PEARSON: Right. Yeah. Thank you for that. DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. And I know this is a lot, and we have about 10 minutes. So what I would love to do is just kind of hang out and answer any questions, have you go in and just tinker. And if you're like, oh, wait a minute, can we do this? Then I'm here for the next 10 minutes to answer those questions. But my other suggestion is, if you are thinking of doing this and you're the admin, come to the teacher one next week, because then you will really see how it impacts the teacher in how it's set up. Because now the Template's done, it's pushed out, and I'm-- next week, I'm going to spend time updating the course, and then finding out what happens when it gets updated and synced. PENNY PEARSON: Terrific Thank you. DANA THOMPSON: You're welcome. (DESCRIPTION) Text, OTAN Online. Canvas Course Admins: Setting up a blueprint or template. Presenter: Dana Thompson: OTAN Subject Matter Expert. February 22, 2024. Text, OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. 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