Using the Bulk Course Upload tool

Rather than creating course categories and then courses one at a time and assigning teachers to each course after the course is created, we can streamline the process through the use of the Bulk Course Upload tool. This tool allows you to organize all the information required to create your courses in a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file that is then uploaded into the creation tool and used to create all of your courses at once.

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Limitations of the Bulk Course Upload tool

Due to its design, the Bulk Course Upload tool only works with MySQL databases. Our MAMP package uses a MySQL database as do the LAMP packages explained in Chapter 1, Welcome to Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (CIMS)! If your Moodle site is running on a database of a different variety you will not be able to use this tool.