Preparing for Course Selection with myBlueprint+

Understanding your Course Selection Checklist

1. Course Selection should remain Closed until all configuration work is complete, and your school is ready for students to submit completed plans - once you have completed the steps outlined in this guide, you can click the Closed toggle to open submissions
2. Configure Course Selection

Prior to course selection, you can review and customize your school’s course selection settings.

3. Import Students

Student data is automatically synced between your SIS and myBlueprint. You can click View Import History to see the date and time of the most recent imports.

4. Import Courses

Course imports can be scheduled to run automatically, or imported manually from here.

5. Review Course Manager

Once courses are imported into myBlueprint, click here to review course details, or click **Course Planning > Courses **in the left-hand navigation menu. 

Configuring Course Selection Settings

For migrating districts, all settings will be copied over from your Education Planner configuration, so you can simply review and make any adjustments compared with last year. 

To begin configuring your settings, click Configure Course Selection (the words, not the check box) on your Dashboard, or click Course Planning > Settings.

Most of the important settings are within the **Course Selection **tab.

Credit Limit

The following fields can be customized for each grade:

• Credit Load - Min: Minimum number of credits (not courses) a student needs to submit. Students who submit less than the minimum will be notified and then flagged in your Counsellor Account – unless you have applied the setting to block submissions with less than the minimum. See Submission Settings below.
• Credit Load - Max: Maximum number of credits a student is allowed to submit. This does not prevent students from submitting more than the max, but those students will be flagged in your Counsellor Account.
• Alternate Slots: Maximum number of Alternates a student can submit with their course selections
• Required Alternates/Year: Number of Alternates a student is prompted to submit (Note: This cannot be greater than the number of Alternate Slots available). 
• By default, students who do not submit the required number of alternate courses will be notified and then flagged in your Counsellor Account. To block submissions with less than the required number of alternates, you can apply a submission setting below. 

Make any changes? **Be sure to click **Save Changes on the right hand side of your settings.

Submission Settings 

• Request Pathway of Interest will ask grade 11 and 12 students to indicate where they plan on going after high school when they submit their selections
• Enable Student Comments allows students to add a comment to their course selection before they submit
• Require comment if a student is submitting with issue(s) *ensures that students comment on why there is an issue with their plan. HINT: This is where students can explain any issues with their submissions (i.e. they plan on taking pre-requisites in summer school or night school)*
• Allow course prerequisites to be satisfied in the same year allows students to submit a course and its prerequisite in the same academic year, without being flagged as an issue (for semestered schools that will schedule students into the prerequisite first). 
• Don’t allow submission if missing prerequisite/corequisite prevents students from submitting their selections if there are any prerequisite issues, rather than just warning them
• Don’t allow submission with less than minimum credit load blocks students from submitting course selections if they have not added the minimum credits set in Course Selection settings (see *Credit Limit *above)
• Don’t allow submission with fewer than Required Alternate Credits  blocks students from submitting course selections if they have not added the minimum credits set in Course Selection settings (see Credit Limit above)

• Maximum Total Credits should say 0 if there is no max, and set to a number if you’d like to be alerted to any grade 12’s taking over a certain number of credits (across all grades, e.g. 34). *Note that this should not *be set to the maximum number of credits for a specific grade (e.g. - that is configured above in the Credit Limit section.

Not Returning Options

1. Click Not Returning 
2. Enable Not Returning Option: Toggle ON to allow students to submit Not Returning from their myBlueprint account
3. Minimum Grade to Show Option: Select the minimum grade for which you would like this option to show.  If you choose Grade 12, then this option will only be available for current grade 12 students
4. Not Returning Course Tiebacks
5. Check each Not Returning option that you would like to be available for students to select 

Note: When a student submits Not Returning, any previously added course(s) will not be submitted and they will no longer be able to submit courses (unless you re-allow their submission)

Do you want the Not Returning option to be transferred back into your Student Information System (SIS)? 

• *If not: **Leave as “No” and you will have access to the *Not Returning Report in your Counsellor Lead account
• **If so: **Click “Yes” to configure a course code for each Not Returning option (i.e. code “NOTRA” for Apprenticeship) so that you can check each student’s destination in your SIS
• Note: those codes have to be imported as part of your course import, and then Disabled in the Course Manager so that students cannot select them as a course offering  

Sign Off Sheet

Most districts use our emailed sign off feature. Printed sign-off sheets can also be enabled as a secondary option if you click the **Sign Off Sheet **option in your course selection settings.

1. **Enable Student Sign-Off Printing **will add the Print Sign Off Sheet Call-to-Action in students’ High School Plans after they have submitted their course selections
2. This can be enabled or disabled for each grade
3. If this option is disabled, teachers and counsellors can still print sign-off sheets for students by clicking the menu button (three dots) in the Students section, then Print Options.
4. Sign Off message on its own page will put your custom sign off message on a second page (recommended for messages that are longer than 3 lines of text)
5. Grade Specific will allow you to create a custom sign off message for students in each grade
6. **Customize **your messaging including the style, font, alignment, and more
7. Click** Save Changes **at the bottom of your sign off message

Reviewing and Updating Courses

From the left-hand navigation menu, click Course planning > Courses. From here, you can review all of the Active and Inactive courses for your school.

1. For any courses you don't want students to select: Click the three dot menu, then Mark Inactive
2. You can also update any course details from the menu by clicking Edit Course

Review Active Courses and Inactive Courses

Active *courses are ones that students can see and select in their High School Plans *

***Inactive ***courses have been imported to myBlueprint and then manually Inactivated in the program to remove them from the courses listed for planning/course selection

Review the course list for any courses that you do NOT want students to select 

Note: you can easily filter to grade or discipline, by clicking the filter button OR search for the course code using the Search Bar

• Click the menu button (three dots) beside any courses you would like to disable, then Mark Inactive
• Click Inactive and review for any courses that students should be able to select
• Click the menu button (three dots), then Mark Active
• If there is a course you want to fully remove from view, click Delete Course. Note that this will fully remove it from your list - so the only way to add it back would be with a new course import. Deleted courses also will reappear if they are included in future course imports, so anything that is active in your SIS, but shouldn’t appear for students to select, should be kept under the Inactive tab 

4. Edit Course Details 

To review, edit, or add information to courses, click on the blue Course Code

1. Course Settings 

You can Enable or Disable an individual course or update their Advanced Settings

Advanced Settings include:

• Custom (Locked): should only be used for
• Course Packages
• Courses that you have updated in myBlueprint and do not want overwritten during future course imports, regardless of the course import options
• View Only: should be used if students may select the course as part of their plan in a future year, but may not submit in the current year 
• Allow Duplicate: Should be enabled for courses if the following two items apply: 
• It shares the same first 5 characters as another course 

Students can earn credits for both (i.e.  a course which has a part 1 and part 2 that use the same first 5 characters) 

If you make any updates, remember to click **Save Changes, **or click the X to go back without saving. 

Course Information

You can update course name, discipline, grade, and credit value.

Course Description and School Message

You can update your Course Description and add a Custom School Message (formerly known as a Guidance Message) that will appear to students as they are planning their courses, as well as on the sign off sheet. * Now with PathwaysEDU, course descriptions and guidance messages support Rich Text Formatting! *

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

You can add, edit, and remove pre-requisite course requirements and co-requisite course requirements for each course. You can also add a recommended grade for the pre-requisite to appear when students are selecting this course.

Note: Unless you have applied the ‘Don’t allow submission with missing prerequisites’ option in your course selection configuration, it will appear as a warning and flag when the student selects the course, but will not prevent them from submitting if they do not have the pre-requisite or the recommended grade.

Enrollment Limit

Allows you to set a limit to the number of students who can submit this course.  Students will be notified that the course can no longer be submitted once the limit has been reached.

Make sure to Save Changes!

Course Selection Grid Setup

myBlueprint+ course selection provides multiple enhancements to the options available for configuring your High School Plan grid. For any given slot in your students’ plans, we can:

• Adjust the pre-populated **name **(e.g. English, French, etc.)
• Link to one or more specific course **disciplines  **(Education Planner allows only 1)
• Pre-filter courses by grade level 
• Pre-filter courses to a list of individual course codes 
• Lock a plan slot for students based on any of the criteria above (while keeping the option for counsellors to override)

 By default, the filters function in the same way as Education Planner, limiting the suggested courses for students but still allowing them to select a different course if needed. 

For  unlocked boxes, students will see a ‘Suggested Courses’ toggle, which they can uncheck to select a different course:

For locked boxes, students are restricted to only selecting from the filtered list of courses, and cannot select other courses. Counsellors can always override the suggested courses and submit a different course on a student’s behalf. 

At this time, customizations must be applied by the myBlueprint Support Team. Please contact us with the messaging option in your account, or at hello@spacesedu.com with any adjustments you’d like to make. Please include the following details:

The existing name of the box you’d like to update

The discipline(s), grade level(s), and/or specific course codes you’d like to appear for students

Note - you can combine filters, for example we can make the English box for Grade 10 show all grade 10-level courses in the English discipline. 

Generally there is no need to provide other filtering criteria if you want to display specific individual course codes. 

If you’d like to reorder the boxes, please list the desired order for all boxes in each grade you want to update

Our team will update your configuration and share a screen recording showing how it looks for students. 

Completing Course Selection

Open Course Selection

Scroll to the Course Selection Checklist on your Counsellor Lead Dashboard, and click the Closed **toggle to enable course selection on a per grade basis. **Once opened, students can start to submit their courses in the High School Planner. 

Support Students with Course Selection

New in myBlueprint+-  Managing student course selection is now done in the Course Submission area of the navigation menu (not in the Students area). Managing Course Submissions allows counsellors to directly access student high school plans for more streamlined support (including, viewing selections, making changes, and submitting on the student’s behalf)

Course Selection Group Actions:

When applying these group actions **all **students that you have checked off will be impacted by the action – even if they are no longer visible on your screen because of a search or filters you have applied.

• Close Submission – Allows you to close submission for all appropriate students (meaning they cannot submit, course selection will remain closed). To open it for these students, you can Re-Allow Submission 
• Not Completing Course Selection – for any students who are not completing course selections (i.e. Student completing selections in SIS or Grade 12s or Grade 8s not attending a school in your board) 
• Re-allow Submission – Allows students to re-submit their course selections. Students whose submission has been re-allowed must resubmit in order for their selections to be approved and exported.
• Not Returning **– Allows you to submit *Not Returning*** options on the students’ behalf
• Download Submissions – Allows you to download/print off credit summaries with parent/guardian signature approval line. 

Review & Approve Plans

Approve Submitted Plans – **Once students have submitted their courses, their name will appear in the **Pending Approval tab of Course Submissions. From here, you can review each plan, comments left by students, and approve their plans to be transferred back to Aspen. 

Plans with no issues: Pending plans without any issues will not have any flags. They have a green dot and “View” status in the course selection column. 

**Plans with issues: **Pending plans with issues will be highlighted in red in the **Course Selection **column. Issues may include a missing prerequisite or not enough courses selected.

**Approve Plans: **Check the box next to student name > **Approve Plans > **this will move the plans with check marks to the Pending Export tab

Pending Approval Filter Options:

• Issues – Allows you to filter the list of students to review submitted plans with or without issues (generic filter). You may also filter the list of students to identify submitted plans that have a specific issue, including:
• • missing prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s) (i.e., student has missing prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s) for courses submitted in their plan)
  • insufficient credits (i.e. student submitted plan that does not meet the minimum credits requirement for their grade)
  • missing mandatory alternate course(s) (i.e. student submitted plan without choosing alternate course(s)
  • duplicate course in their plan (i.e. student submitted plan with courses that have the same first 5 characters)
  • too many credits (i.e. student submitted plan with more credits than the Maximum), 
  • maximum total credits exceed (i.e. Grade 11 or  Grade 12 student submitted plan with more credits than the Maximum total credits set for Grade 9 to Grade 12)
• Submitted Course – Allows you to review submitted plans that include a specific course
• Student Comment – Allows you to review submitted plans that include student comments
• Parent Approval – Allows you to review submitted plans for students who have not sent the approval email, been approved by their parent/guardian, or had approval rejected.

View Submitted Plans & Correct Issues – **Under the **Pending Approval tab, click on the View **link in the Course Selection column **to view the plan details (or select the student’s last name), including the courses each student has submitted, comments they have made, and options for their submission: 

1. Approve Submission – accept the submission as-is
2. Approve and Next - Approve this student’s submission and immediately view the next student’s plan
3. Re-Allow Submission – send the submission back to the student to be updated/changed. Students will receive a notification of submission being re-allowed in their accounts and via email.
4. Parent/Guardian Approval –the approval status, as well as the parent email address that the selections were approved from, can be viewed in this panel

• Correct Issue(s) – **To correct an issue, click on the three dots to the right of the course code. In the menu, select **Change or Delete 
• If you want to change the course, click Change. You can find the course in the list of offered courses OR use the Search bar to find the exact course you would like to replace the course selected by the student. Click + Add
• If you want to delete the course, simply click Delete  

Review Student Submission Status – Click** Course Submissions **from your left-hand navigation menu

1. Use the Filters to filter the list by Grade, Submission Status, etc. to see who has and has not completed course selection
2. **Download Student List – **click on the **Download **button at the top right to download an Excel file of student submission status report
3. Alternatively, use the Reports feature to view a summary of student submissions as well as reporting options for course forecasting (selection tallies) and not returning reports.

Export Submissions

Important Notes regarding Exports:

• The final export process will be handled by your district IT team. 
• All submissions must be approved and placed in Pending Export status before the export. Any submissions left in ‘Pending Approval’ will not be transferred to your SIS.

Close Course Selection

Close Course Selection – When course selection is over, make sure to disable submissions from your Counsellor Lead Dashboard.

Simply Click the Open toggle to Close course selection for all students or on a per grade basis. Make sure to Save Changes

Updated on: 16/10/2025