Enable completion tracking via csv for Totara bulk course upload

Question

I need to upload a little over 2000 courses to Totara V2.6.

Doing this with a .csv file isn't normally a problem but I need to set " Enable completion tracking " and " Mark as In Progress on first view " to yes/checked for the courses.

Here is an example of what I have tried in my .csv file:

fullname,shortname,category,enablecompletion,completionprogressonview
COURSE NAME,COURSE NAME,1,1,1

The courses are created and uploaded but the two desired settings have no effect. I have looked here for more information on uploading courses usng a .csv, but there is no mention of the completion tracking settings .

Is it possible to set " Enable completion tracking " and " Mark as In Progress on first view " in the .csv file, and if not is there another way I can apply these settings to all the courses without having to do it one at a time?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm afraid you can't do Enable completion tracking through a csv file for users as per the documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/30/en/Upload_users

You can enable completion tracking in a separated .csv file only for courses: https://docs.moodle.org/30/en/Upload_courses#Course_information_fields

You must enable activity completion for all the activities within a course and set the course completion criteria, I don't think this can be done through a .csv, I think this must be done manually.

Once you have all users uploaded and enrolled into a course, you can change all users progress on the activities directly on the database, or create a script that does the job for you.