Does Insights support Canvas Blueprints?

Insights now recognizes blueprint courses and supports ingesting and interacting with Canvas for more robust planning and tracking.

Blueprint Course Support in Insights

Institutions that rely heavily on instructional design now have more control. All content, assessments, and alignments are created in the blueprint shell, and then the content is copied into the Canvas course. This feature allows coordinators to sync CLOs, PLOs, ILOs, and standards into blueprint-labeled courses.

Blueprint Course Detection

If Blueprint Course support is enabled, Insights will detect courses with the Canvas Blueprint setting, or "blueprint" included in their course code, and consider them blueprint parents.

All other matching course codes are treated as blueprint associates or child courses and are presumed to inherit from the blueprint parent, regardless of sync status. 

When Canvas users sync the content from a blueprint course, a link is created between the blueprint parent and child course. 

Identifying Blueprint Courses in Insights

Courses with blueprint parents show a “blueprint” pill on the Outcome page.

If a Canvas user removes an associated course, Insights retains the relationship for historical reference.

Blueprint Courses and Assessment Behavior

If blueprint and CLO sync (and/or ILO/PLO sync) is enabled:

• • Approved LOs for a course will be pushed into a blueprint parent course, along with their most recently associated rating scales, but only if Insights finds no child courses.

  • If the blueprint parent course is associated with child courses, LOs will not be pushed because the association of content implies a finalization in Canvas.

Once a course is marked as a blueprint parent (designated by the blueprint pill), that course will not show up in assessment planning as a course to push assignments or rubrics to, even if mapped in the Curriculum map. Only outcomes and their rating scales will be pushed to the blueprint parent course.