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Creating a New Course

How Site Owners, Administrators, and Instructors create a new custom course to add to the course library.

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Create a new course

To create a new course from the library:

  1. Navigate to the library on the left-hand navigation.

  2. Click Create a new course in the upper right-hand side of the page.

  3. Enter a title and description for the course. Insert a banner image.

    • PNG, JPG, or GIF are accepted file types.


Content tab

Within the content tab:

  1. Fill out the course outline.

  2. Enter your unit one title.

  3. Provide a lesson title.

  4. Click edit details within the unit to add an image and description.

  5. Provide a lesson description.

  6. Insert an image for the lesson.

  7. Click Save.

If any of the above steps are not completed before you click Save, a red error message will populate under the fields that are not completed. Until the above steps are completed, your work will not be saved!


Course Settings

Within the Settings tab you have the option of updating the following:

  • Banner Image

  • Course Title

  • Course Description

  • General Settings

    • Private: Only you and your scheduled classrooms can view this course

    • Public to Selected Site: All members in the selected site can view this course

    • Public to All My Sites: All members of any site where the course’s authors are instructors or admins can view this course

  • Delete Course

  • Clone Course

Courses are not recoverable once deleted.


Content Authors

Within the Authors tab, you have the option of inviting additional authors for your course. These are the three options when inviting a new author:

  • Type-in Code

    • Have the author you are wanting to join visit www.blueprint.study/join-course and provide them the code that is displayed to you.

    • They will be added to the course as an author once they submit the code.

    • Copy the Blueprint invite link, and provide that to the additional author.

  • Email Invite

    • Input the email of the author you are wanting to add, and hit send.


Saving Content

While creating your course and course activities, you must click Save Changes located either at the bottom of the screen when designing the course outline or at the top right-hand side of the screen when designing course activities. If you fail to click Save Changes, your data may be lost or unsaved.

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