Time for action – installing the Bulk Course Upload tool

Now that we have our teacher's accounts created, we are ready to use the Bulk Course Creation tool to create all of our courses. First we need to install the tool as an add-on admin report into our Moodle site. The steps for the installation process are virtually the same as those explained in Chapter 1, Welcome to Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (CIMS)! for installing Modules, Blocks, and Themes. To install this tool, do the following:

1. Go to the Modules and plugins area of www.moodle.org.

2. Search for Bulk Course Upload tool.

3. Click on Download latest version to download the tool to your computer.

4. If this does not download the package to your hard drive and instead takes you to a forum in the Using Moodle course on Moodle.org, download the package that was posted in that forum on Sunday, 11 May 2008.

5. Expand the package, contained within, and find the uploadcourse.php file.

6. Place the uploadcourse.php file in your admin...