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Import Catalogs

Course catalogs can be added or deleted in bulk using the Catalog Assignment CSV Loader.  

To add and configure course catalogs, your role must have unrestricted access to the Catalog Assignment CSV Loader feature. 

Create the Import File

To create the CSV import file:

  1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Import > Catalog Assignment CSV Loader.  CSV download and import actions are located on the right side of the screen.

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  1. Click Download CSV file template.
  2. Prepare the file for import.

Click CSV Formatting Help for important guidelines around preparing the file for import. 

  • CSV files are likely to be opened by Microsoft Excel if it is installed on your system. If you encounter any problems with importing a CSV file into the LMS, it could be caused by Microsoft Excel applying extra formatting to the file.
  • As an alternative, you can edit CSV files in a text editor. The data should conform to the formatting required by the template as specified in the corresponding CSV Formatting Help.
  • If the values for text area fields include punctuation, these fields must be enclosed in double quotation marks (" "). Do not include commas or semicolons in other fields as they could be interpreted as a field delimiter (depending on your choice of delimiter at import).

Import the File

  1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Import > Catalog Assigment CSV Loader.
  2. Click + Import CSV file.
  3. Click the Choose File button and select the CSV file for upload.
  4. Configure the import fields:
  • Encoding - If the CSV file was saved with a specific file encoding the LMS can automatically detect it, otherwise you can select it from the list.
  • Delimiter - Select the delimiter used to separate the values in the file.
  • Clear existing course assignments from catalogs BEFORE... - Enable the checkbox to clear existing course assignments before processing new assignments in the file.
  • Create any new catalogs found in the CSV file - Enable the checkbox to create new catalogs.
  1. Click Preview. The contents of the CSV file are shown in the Data Loader page so that you can review the data before importing the file.
  2. Click Upload to import the CSV file. The Summary Report shows how many records in the file were imported successfully and how many failed.

If any records fail to import, you can return to the CSV Loader page and click the CSV Error Report link for the failed import. The report downloads to your desktop as a copy of the original file, with error messages included for each record that couldn't be imported.

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