This document discusses master courses and how they can be used to maintain consistency across course sections. It provides the following key points: 1) A master course is a course template that allows for quality control and easier updating by maintaining content in one central location that can then be copied to individual course shells. 2) Using master courses helps address issues like the difficultly of consistently updating and maintaining multiple course sections as well as inconsistencies that can arise across sections when they are managed separately. 3) The document provides guidance on setting up a new course shell by generating an empty shell and then copying over content from the master course template while also checking for and fixing any broken links or other issues that may arise from