When managing content in a live course, it’s important to understand how your actions may impact the experience of existing learners in the course.

BluePrint is designed so you can make low-stakes changes to existing content quickly and easily. Actions like fixing a typo or switching an image, for example, won't disrupt your learners' progress through the course.

However, you will need to take more caution with (or at least know the ramifications of) structural changes and changes that impact data.

Structural Changes

In general, changes to the structure of any part of your course will affect the learner's progress through it. Adding or removing lessons, flashcards, questions, tests, or assets from a Structured Study Plan will impact study plan progress in obvious ways. For example, a learner who completed a study plan will see that their course is incomplete if you add new content to it.

Generally speaking, the higher volume of changes you make, the larger the impact will be. It is also dependent on the individual learners and what they have or have not completed by the time you publish the changes; for example, if your course has only been live for a day, big changes are likely to impact less learners.

Changes Impacting Data

Changing Questions

The Question editor has a clearly marked section that warns you of the specific changes that will impact users. Changing the question type, answer options, the correct answer, and the associated question category will impact learners' progress.

Changing any of the above will impact the learners who have already answered the question; for example, if a question's correct answer is changed, learners who had previously gotten that correct will now see they have gotten it wrong.

Deleting & Adding Content 

Deleting content will affect learners' progress through a course.

• Where questions are concerned, deleted content will also affect the learners' scores for the test or practice question set that the question lives within. For example, if you delete one question form 30 question exam, the score will be recalculated and will display score out of remaining 29 questions. 

Adding content will also affect learners' progress through the course. 

• Where questions are concerned, added content will also affect learners' scores test or practice question set that the question lives within. In the case of an already completed exam, adding a new question will put the exam back in a pause state until the learner answers the new question.

The process of recalculating progress and scores depends on several factors, including the amount of content in the course and the number of learners. If you're planning significant changes to a live course that will impact data, we recommend creating a new version with updated content and making it available to learners.