Set up a blueprint course child courses

[afowler1]

We have two courses that have a didactic and a clinical component.  The student has to pass both of the components to pass the course.  We can weigh each component according to the percentage of the course but cannot sub-weigh each of the components.  For example:  The didactic is 60% of the course and clinical is 40% of the course.  We have assignments, quizzes, and discussion questions for the didactic portion and clinical assignments and performance grades for the clinical component.  We need to apply weights to each of these groups.  

I was told that a blueprint and child courses can be set up to accomplish this but our Canvas coordinator is not able to figure out how to set this up.  Is there a training video or script that can walk them through that process/

Thank you so much!!!!

Anna Fowler

Director of Nursing 

Highland Community College

Atchison, KS

[Hildi_Pardo · Accepted solution]

Hi @afowler1 , if I'm understanding correctly, you are needing to weight the assessments -- this is done on the Assignments page with Assignment Groups.

You would need to create two Assignment Groups -- call one Didactic and the other Clinical.

• How do I add an assignment group in a course?

Move the Assignments to the correct Assignment Group.

• How do I move or reorder an assignment?

Then you can set the Assignment Group weights.

• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?

Is this what you're looking for?

[afowler1]

Thank you for your response.  However that does not fully answer my question.  If the didactic total is 60% of their grade and the clinical total is 40% of their grade, can we subweigh each group?  For example, the didactic has assignments worth 25%, the tests are worth 50%, and discussion questions are worth 25%.  In the clinical side there performance is 50% and their assignment papers are 50%.  

[stimme]

You cannot create assignment groups within other assignment groups. Working with breakdown you provided, I suggest creating five assignment groups with these percentages:

• didactic assignments, 15%
• didactic tests, 30%
• didactic discussion questions, 15%
• clinical performance, 20%
• clinical assignment papers, 20%