Quick and easy way to add many courses

Quick and easy way to add many courses

Alicia Wallace -
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Hi, I have sub-categories set up for AS and ALevel subjects (there are about 40 sub-categories in total). Within each of these sub-categories I need to create two courses named after the following convention:

Fullname: [Level] [Abbreviated Subject] PRIVATE Tutor Area (ie, AS Eng. Lang. PRIVATE Tutor Area)

Fullname: [Level] [Abbreviated Subject] General Information (ie, AS Eng Lang General Information)

The Private area needs to be hidden and have a paragraph of text added to the introduction. The General Information area needs to be visible and have the appropriate cohort enrolled.

That's all I need to do - but obviously doing this manually will be time consuming and tedious. What's the most efficient way to create several courses like this, preferably already containing the necessary information?

Incidentally: these new courses/ tutor areas do not exist on any of our systems already, so I can't import this information from anywhere (unless I create a spreadsheet myself).

Using Moodle 2.5

Thanks for your help, Alicia

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回复Alicia Wallace

Re: Quick and easy way to add many courses

Alicia Wallace -

Hi

Found it! For people having the same problem I had - ignore the bit in the 2.5 documentation which says "Bulk Course Create Options - As of Moodle 2.2, this is not an out of the box feature."

If you look in the 2.4 documentation, you can see detailed and helpful instructions on how to upload courses in bulk using a CSV file. http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Bulk_course_upload (scroll down to Sample Data)

Alicia

Subquery: why does the 2.5 documentation say that? 

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回复Alicia Wallace

Re: Quick and easy way to add many courses

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Bulk course create is a contributed module not a standard feature - although in Moodle 2.6 it will become standard - actually the same page documentation you refer to in 2.4 also has the information in 2.5 http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Bulk_course_upload

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回复Mary Cooch

Re: Quick and easy way to add many courses

Alicia Wallace -

Brilliant, thanks 微笑 I couldn't find that page - when I clicked the link in the 2.4 to go to the 2.5 docs, it directed me to the overview of 2.5 docs. I clicked on courses, Adding a new Course and went to the Bulk Course Create Options, and got that message.

Alicia

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