Jeff Church
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My preference is if Robert's code works let us drop back to one tool (his). A student programmer wrote this for us. She is still working for us but you know how that goes. We are moving to 1.9 this summer so we will be updating the code at that point and I will post the new code. However, we are running with Banner integration using Eric's wonderful Banner/Luminis Message Broker mod so the need for course creation is very low. Our WebCT license runs out on Nov 29th so all of our faculty have to be on Moodle at that point. I see just a few more months of needing to build development courses in bulk then we will not really need this tool. I guess what I am saying is I would rather have someone that has a long term need for this tool maintain it.
Thats easy to fix change the short name of your roles. 
Just got to work and saw your post glad it is working for you. Sorry I should have put the role name stuff in the email. I did the same thing one time so I know it is an easy mistake.
Hi Jason,
Don't know if this will help but I will attach the script we are using to bulk create courses. Just put the file in the root/admin folder and when you are logged in as admin just go to the file location root/admin/uploadcourse.php
I will attach a sample CSV file as well. The teacher account must be created before assigning it to a course. Use the teacher user name in the CSV.
I have not tested this for more than 500 courses at a time. The script may timeout if you do to many courses at once. I have only used this on 1.8.3. We are integrated with our student management system so we only use this script to create test and development courses.
Hope this helps.
I forgot this will only let you attach 1 file so I zipped both files up to attach. Also included the bulk delete courses file you may find it helpful.
Don't know if this will help but I will attach the script we are using to bulk create courses. Just put the file in the root/admin folder and when you are logged in as admin just go to the file location root/admin/uploadcourse.php
I will attach a sample CSV file as well. The teacher account must be created before assigning it to a course. Use the teacher user name in the CSV.
I have not tested this for more than 500 courses at a time. The script may timeout if you do to many courses at once. I have only used this on 1.8.3. We are integrated with our student management system so we only use this script to create test and development courses.
Hope this helps.
I forgot this will only let you attach 1 file so I zipped both files up to attach. Also included the bulk delete courses file you may find it helpful.