If you want to copy your class from last semester or year, and make a few tweaks, this is the guide for you. The process can be as fast as 2 minutes, and your new class will be ready to go, using the following steps.
Copy the Previous Course in your LMS
Create a New Version of your Blended Teaching Textbook
Bond & Enroll [Integrated textbooks only]
⚠️ Please follow this guide closely, if not you risk students not being able to access Blended Teaching.
1. Copy the Previous Course in your LMS
Start in your LMS. In your shiny new blank course shell, copy your previous course. This will bring all of your last course content, including any Blended Teaching links with it too. The old Blended Teaching content links will remain the same, you don't need to change any of them.
2. Create a New Version of your Blended Teaching Textbook
Now let's flip over to your Blended Teaching Control Center. Open up your textbook Control Center by going to educators.blended-teaching.com and find the textbook that links to the old course you just copied in Canvas.
To use your same textbook again this semester, we are going to make a new version. Why?
This will allow you to have a clean textbook, without the data from previous classes corrupting your analysis and insights.
It will allow you to make incremental improvements to your class for the coming semester.
If you are integrated, you can't reuse an old textbook in a new LMS shell. It won't work. You need a new version of the same textbook.
To make a new version:
Go to the Control Center of your existing textbook that you want to create a new version of, and go to the Settings page.
Scan down until you find the box titled Create New Version and click the blue button + Create New Version
Review and, if necessary, update the Version Name. We recommend that this match the name of your class.
Review and, if necessary, update the Internal Name. This is entirely up to you.
Update the Start Date and End Date for access to this version of the textbook. Important: These cannot overlap with your previous version. The Start Date should be the date from which the class is available in your LMS for students. This is usually slightly before the start date of the course.
Select an Academic Period.
Click Create New Version.
You've now created a new version of your textbook. This uses the same links as your previous textbook.
After the Start Date that you set in this new version, when a student attempts to access the Blended Teaching content in your LMS using the existing links (no need to change them), our system will direct them to your new textbook rather than the old one.
If your textbook is unintegrated, the process is now complete.
Tip: We recommend to update your assessment due and end dates in Blended Teaching for the new semester.
3. Bond & Enroll [Integrated textbooks only]
3.1. Bond
Bonding your LMS with your textbook will enable grades to be synced between Blended Teaching and your LMS.
To bond your textbook with your LMS instance:
Click on any of the Blended Teaching materials that you have installed in your LMS.
Click on the blue button Log in to Blended Control Center.
If you are already logged in, it will present you with your textbooks. Select the appropriate textbook from the list that matches this semester's class.
That's done, you can now close this window. Your textbook is now installed and grade syncing will work.
3.2. Enroll
You can now enroll in your own textbook, allowing you to experience the content as a student.
Click on any of the Blended Teaching materials that you have installed in your LMS.
Click on the blue button Complete Enrollment
Follow the steps until you are enrolled. As an instructor, you won't see a paywall. If you do, please contact us through the bot, and we will fix it for you.
Once you are enrolled, you should be able to see the content appear in your LMS, just as s student would.
Great - you're all done and good to go 🙌