Visvanath Ratnaweera

You need to help us to understand your work-flow.

>I set up a file system repository called "upload". My intention is to avoid making hundreds of copies of SCORM zip files which would cost me hundreds of GBs of disk space

What is the use case which warrants making hundreds of copies of files?

BTW, you know that if you upload the same file (in its content) hundred times to Moodle it takes up only one space, even if you keep on changing its name? So if you do the same manually, by uploading the file to a file system repository and linking it, you are not saving any storage space.

> So, by uploading SCORM zips to one place, I can use the builtin Link function of a SCORM activity to reference that one zip file.

The question is when should Moodle detect that a SCORM file has changed its content and show the new content. I don't know, I don't use SCORM. You need to ask in the SCORM forum.

Good for you that you found the cause of your problem. Quite an intriguing one! And persisting mere 4 hours ago: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=449111#p1819112.

Now it remains to the OP to confirm that it is also the cause of the his problem.

Are you sure that you problem is identical to that of the OP https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=449111#p1804900? Is your teacher also using SEB?

If not, mixing you problem with somebody else's "similar sounding symptoms" muddy both discussions. In geek talk, "thread hijacking".

Two days later, no user owned a database record. The activity would day no records and offer to enter one. All the records are there in the database but owned by the teacher!

The CSV I uploaded looks like this:

Email address,shelluser,shellpassword,Approved
user000@example.com,user000,9ecbacd1,0

I don't know whether e-mail alone is not sufficient. But just after I uploaded the records were nicely owned by the corresponding users.

Somehow the logic is not intuitive to me. Not trying anymore, since the need was solved by other means (not Moodle-based).