Blueprints for Guide Pages

Use Blueprints to save your Markdown content and Layout settings as reusable templates for guide pages. When creating new pages, you can use these Blueprints to facilitate consistent styling and formatting across all your guides.

Note

Blueprints are saved within courses and can be accessed by all assignments in that course, as well as in any cloned versions of the course. They are not available for use in standalone projects.

Creating a Blueprint

  1. Enter the content, including the formatting and styling you want for the template.

  2. Make your Layout selections.

Setting up your guide page and layout before creating a blueprint

  1. Click the Blueprint button to create and access Blueprints.

  2. Give your Blueprint a name.

  3. Click Save.

Creating a blueprint

Using an existing Blueprint

You can access your Blueprints by clicking on the New Page icon.

Accessing blueprints from the New Page icon

You can also access them from the Table of Contents by clicking the Add Page icon.

Accessing blueprints from the Add page button

Modifying an existing Blueprint

Modifying an existing Blueprint will overwrite its contents. To modify an existing Blueprint first create a page using that Blueprint, then make your changes. Select the name of the Blueprint you are modifying and click Save. A warning will display to let you know you are overwriting an existing template.

Modifying an existing bluepring

Note

When you save a Blueprint it saves whatever you currently have on the guide page and in the layout.