When creating a course, instructors may want to start from a template. This saves them time and ensures consistency if courses have common activities or resources. For example, if all of your instructor-led courses have a face-to-face activity, it's best when creating these courses to use a template course that already has a face-to-face activity in it. This saves you from having to add a Face-to-face activity after the fact and configure it. The same comment goes for a courses that leverage a Certificate of Completion. Rather than installing a certificate of completion from an .MBZ file after the fact, you can leverage a course template that already has a certificate configured.
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When uploading courses, the system will see if a column labelled "templatecourse" is present in your CSV. If it is, it will duplicate the "templatecourse" rather than create a new / empty course. The field "templatecourse" needs to match the shortname of an existing course in the system. Below is an example of a CSV file that would use an existing course as a template:
shortname,fullname,category_path,summary,templatecoures
WHMIS,Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System,Classroom,This is my summary,template_classroom_courses
Based on the example above:
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