Bulk course upload

Bulk course upload is a contributed code that creates a course with a teacher and basic course settings from a CSV file. There is also a bulk course deletion tool. These work in 1.8 and 1.9.

Tips & Tricks

To use this code successfully, the site administrator must create the teacher accounts before creating the courses. The role for the teacher in the csv is the role short name. So for teacher use 'editingteacher' and Non-editing teachers use 'teacher' and so on. The course category must also exist before uploading the file.

The bulk course delete tool uses a txt file with the course short names. One course per line.

Sample data

First line in cvs file

fullname,shortname,category,sortorder,idnumber,summary,format,showgrades,newsitems,teacher,teachers,student,students,startdate,numsections,maxbytes,visible,groupmode,timecreated,timemodified,password,enrolperiod,groupmodeforce,metacourse,lang,theme,cost,showreports,guest,enrollable,enrolstartdate,enrolenddate,notifystudents,expirynotify,expirythreshold,teacher1_role,teacher1_account

Example 1st record in cvs file

Greatest Course,GC101,Education Portfolios,1,,University Portfolio,topics,0,0,Owner,Owners,Visitor,Visitors,1/14/2008,10,15728640,0,0,1/12/2008,1/12/2008,portfolio,0,0,0,,,,0,2,1,1/14/2008,5/10/2008,0,0,10,editingteacher,lastname1.firstname@email.edu

Example 2st record in cvs file

Worst Course,WC101,Education Portfolios,1,,University Sample Courses,topics,0,0,Owner,Owners,Visitor,Visitors,1/14/2008,10,15728640,0,0,1/12/2008,1/12/2008,portfolio,0,0,0,,,,0,2,1,1/14/2008,5/10/2008,0,0,10,editingteacher,lastname2.firstname@email.edu

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