admin/tool/uploadcourse/index

CSV File format

Possible column names are:

• fullname
• shortname
• category
• idnumber
• summary
• format
• showgrades
• newsitems
• teacher
• editingteacher
• student
• modinfo,
• manager
• coursecreator
• guest
• user
• startdate
• numsections
• maxbytes
• visible
• groupmode
• restrictmodules
• enablecompletion
• completionstartonenrol
• completionnotify
• hiddensections
• groupmodeforce
• lang
• theme
• cost
• showreports
• notifystudents
• expirynotify
• expirythreshold
• requested
• deleted (1 means delete course)
• oldshortname (for renaming)
• backupfile (for restoring a course template after creation)
• templatename (course to use as a template - the shortname)
• reset (reset the course contents after upload - this resets everything - so you lose groups, roles, logs, grades etc. Be Careful!!!)

An example file is:

fullname,shortname,category,idnumber,summary,backupfile
Computer Science 101,CS101,Cat1,CS101,The first thing you will ever know,/path/to/backup-moodle2-course-cs101-20120213-0748-nu.mbz

As a general rule, the input values for fields are what you find on the data entry form if you inspect the HTML element.

Format

The options for the format value are 'scorm', 'social', weeks', and 'topics'.

Role Names

• teacher
• editingteacher
• student
• manager
• coursecreator
• guest
• user

...are - where config permitting - you can substitute your own name for these roles (string value).

Category

For category you must supply the category name as it is in Moodle and this field is case sensitive. If Sub Categories are involved then the full category hierarchy needs to be specified as a '/' delimited string eg: 'Miscellaneous / Sub Cat / Sub Sub Cat'. The delimiter can be escaped with a back slash eg: 'some\/category'. Categories will NOT be created - they must already exist

Course Templating

add column backupfile which has the fully qualified path name to a file on the server that has a a Moodle course backup in it.

Add a column templatename which is the shortname of an existing course that will be copied over the top of the new course.

Course Enrolment Methods

Enrolment methods need special CSV columns as there can be many per course, and the fields for each method are flexible. The following is an example with two enrolment methods - manual, and self - firstly you need the column identifying the enrolment method enrolmethod_<n>, and then add the corresponding field values subscripted with _<n>. eg: fullname,shortname,category,idnumber,summary,enrolmethod_1,status_1,enrolmethod_2,name_2,password_2,customtext1_2 Parent,Parent,,Parent,Parent,manual,1,self,self1,letmein,this is a custom message 1 Students,Students,,Students,Students,manual,0,self,self2,letmein,this is a custom message 2 Teachers,Teachers,,Teachers,Teachers,manual,0,self,self3,letmein,this is a custom message 3

add the special columns for:

* delete - delete_<n> with value 1
* disable - disable_<n> with value 1

startdate enrol_startdate enrol_enddate

For startdate enrolstartdate, and enrolenddate the values should be supplied in the form like 31.01.2012 or 31/01/2012 that can be consumed by strtotime() (http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php) - check your PHP locale settings for the fine tuning eg: m/d/y vs d/m/y.

Enrolment method field 'enrolperiod' must be in seconds. If this is supplied then enrolenddate will be calculated as enrolstartdate + enrolperiod.

enrolperiod should be supplied in multiples of enrolment period measurements - 1 hour = 3600, 1 day = 86400 and so on. OR - you can pass a text string that php strtotime() can recognise eg: '2 weeks' or '10 days'

Enrolment Method Role

Default Role for an enrolment method is supplied by adding the 'role_<n>' column. The expected value is the descriptive label for the given role eg: 'Student', or "Teacher'.

Enrolment example: fullname,shortname,category,idnumber,summary,enrolmethod_1,enrolperiod_1,role_1 a name,short1,Miscellaneous,id1,a summary,manual,864000,Manager

Update Course:

Make sure you have shortname in the csv. After uploading the file, select: Upload type: one of the update existing related options Existing course details: Overide with file Allow Renames: Yes

Update example:

fullname,shortname new full name,short1

Run it in batch mode

Execute Course Upload in batch mode - this must be run as the www-data user (or the equivalent user that the web server runs under).

Options:
-v, --verbose              Print verbose progress information
-h, --help                 Print out this help
-a, --action               Action to perform - addnew, addupdate, update, forceadd
-m, --mode                 Mode of execution - delete, rename, nochange, file, filedefaults, missing
-f, --file                 CSV File
-d, --delimiter            delimiter - colon,semicolon,tab,cfg,comma
-e, --encoding             File encoding - utf8 etc
-c, --category             Course category
-s, --templateshortname    Template course by shortname
-t, --template             Template course by backup file
-g, --format               Course format - weeks,scorm,social,topics
-n, --numsections          Number of sections


Example:
sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php admin/tool/uploadcourse/cli/uploadcourse.php --action=addupdate \
                 --mode=delete --file=./courses.csv --delimiter=comma