Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Empowering Collaborative Teams
Teachers work together to build and maintain the Blueprint Course. Blueprint content is pushed to teachers' individual courses, allowing them to stay on track as a team while maintaining individual classroom autonomy.
START
Tips & Videos
Blueprints vs. shells
What Are Blueprints?
locking content
assignments & calendar in Blueprints
why lock content & how to fix an exception
teacher autonomy & blueprints
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
What are Blueprints?
And how do they work?
Canvas descirbes Blueprints as courses that allow Canvas admins to create content and learning objects, lock specific settings or content items, and push updates to all associated courses through course syncing. Any items that are not locked can be managed individually by a course instructor. Any course can be made into a Blueprint with the click of a button, as long as their are not students enrolled in the course.
What are Blueprints?
Keep Reading...
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Teach from your Shell
Build in your Blueprint
- Shell=SIS created course where students are located.
- Blueprint=Manually-created course that the teacher owns.
- Build=Adding content to your course.
- Teach=Anything that directly connects you with the students.
Blueprint VS. Shell
- Assigning activities to specific classes
- Setting due dates/open dates
- Grading work
- Interacting with students
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
To change CONTENT (i.e. Build), you must click EDIT on the page or activity that you'd like to update. This should ONLY be done in your Blueprint unless you are customizing your SHELL for your class. Associated your Blueprint to a Shell created a link between the two. When you Sync your Blueprint, it will push all updated content to your shell.
If you make an EDIT to CONTENT (you clicked the edit button) while on your SHELL, you will BREAK the link between THAT ONE PAGE on your Shell and that one page on your Blueprint. This is called an Exception. To keep this from happening on accident, you can LOCK content on pages so that you aren't able to edit from the Shell!
Locking Content
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
The video on this page will walk you through the entire process of accidently making a change that causes an exception and then working through fixing the exception! The basic steps for fixing an exception: 1. Delete the page you changed from your SHELL. 2. Go to your Blueprint and DUPLICATE the page with the exception.
3. Delete the original page in the Blueprint. 4. Make the necessary updates on the duplicated page in your Blueprint. 5. Re-Sync your content. The new page should sync to your Shell. You may have to relink images and text if you had a link to the page to begin with.
Why lock content & how to fix an exception
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
One teacher will create the Blueprint and invite the other team members as Teachers to the course. Your Tech Integration Specialist will turn on the Blueprint Status in your course and help you associate all of your Shell courses. Team will build (add content) to the Blueprint. Everyone syncs as UNPUBLISHED. Go into your Shell courses and strategically publish the content you'd like fro your class.
Teacher authonomy & Blueprints
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Decide as a team if you will post events (tests, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc.) to the Blueprint calendar or if each teacher will post events separately. Both ways work! It depends on what works best for your team.
Assignements & Calebdar in Blueprints
Specialist
Hi, I'm Megan Zara
specialist
I am an EdTech nerd with a master's in literacy and a coffee obsession! My place in education is helping teachers integrate technology in meaningful ways!
- 6th Grade ELAR Teacher
- 6th Grade Tech Apps Teacher
- Middle School Digital Learning Coach @ Frisco ISD
- Piloted Canvas in Frisco ISD
- EC-8 Digital Literacy Coach at Fort Worth ISD
Connect! Twitter: @iDigLit Email: Megan.Zara@fwisd.org
Specialist
Thank You!
Connect! @ZaraEdTech Megan.Zara@fwisd.org bit.ly/leverageblueprints
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Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Empowering Collaborative Teams
Teachers work together to build and maintain the Blueprint Course. Blueprint content is pushed to teachers' individual courses, allowing them to stay on track as a team while maintaining individual classroom autonomy.
START
Tips & Videos
Blueprints vs. shells
What Are Blueprints?
locking content
assignments & calendar in Blueprints
why lock content & how to fix an exception
teacher autonomy & blueprints
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
What are Blueprints?
And how do they work?
Canvas descirbes Blueprints as courses that allow Canvas admins to create content and learning objects, lock specific settings or content items, and push updates to all associated courses through course syncing. Any items that are not locked can be managed individually by a course instructor. Any course can be made into a Blueprint with the click of a button, as long as their are not students enrolled in the course.
What are Blueprints?
Keep Reading...
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Teach from your Shell
Build in your Blueprint
Blueprint VS. Shell
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
To change CONTENT (i.e. Build), you must click EDIT on the page or activity that you'd like to update. This should ONLY be done in your Blueprint unless you are customizing your SHELL for your class. Associated your Blueprint to a Shell created a link between the two. When you Sync your Blueprint, it will push all updated content to your shell.
If you make an EDIT to CONTENT (you clicked the edit button) while on your SHELL, you will BREAK the link between THAT ONE PAGE on your Shell and that one page on your Blueprint. This is called an Exception. To keep this from happening on accident, you can LOCK content on pages so that you aren't able to edit from the Shell!
Locking Content
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
The video on this page will walk you through the entire process of accidently making a change that causes an exception and then working through fixing the exception! The basic steps for fixing an exception: 1. Delete the page you changed from your SHELL. 2. Go to your Blueprint and DUPLICATE the page with the exception.
3. Delete the original page in the Blueprint. 4. Make the necessary updates on the duplicated page in your Blueprint. 5. Re-Sync your content. The new page should sync to your Shell. You may have to relink images and text if you had a link to the page to begin with.
Why lock content & how to fix an exception
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
One teacher will create the Blueprint and invite the other team members as Teachers to the course. Your Tech Integration Specialist will turn on the Blueprint Status in your course and help you associate all of your Shell courses. Team will build (add content) to the Blueprint. Everyone syncs as UNPUBLISHED. Go into your Shell courses and strategically publish the content you'd like fro your class.
Teacher authonomy & Blueprints
Canvas Blueprints for K-12
Decide as a team if you will post events (tests, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc.) to the Blueprint calendar or if each teacher will post events separately. Both ways work! It depends on what works best for your team.
Assignements & Calebdar in Blueprints
Specialist
Hi, I'm Megan Zara
specialist
I am an EdTech nerd with a master's in literacy and a coffee obsession! My place in education is helping teachers integrate technology in meaningful ways!
Connect! Twitter: @iDigLit Email: Megan.Zara@fwisd.org
Specialist
Thank You!
Connect! @ZaraEdTech Megan.Zara@fwisd.org bit.ly/leverageblueprints