Edit more that one course at a time for the sliders.

My org just licensed Absorb Amplify and we are being told we need to edit enrollment rules and catalogue visibility of their 400+ courses one by one. Please come through with this update, it would save our department hours of tedious work.

The areas I'd be interesting in bulk updating courses are:
- Enrollment rules
- Course Administrators
Ideally I'd like to copy settings from one course to another, or many others!

Any traction on this? Looks like this has been under consideration for a long time without an update from Absorb. Adding a bulk update function to update categories, availability, enrollment rules, etc. would GREATLY enhance your admin user experience.

What's up with this? Lots of old comments, but this seems like a core function that should be implemented right away. Might save a customer if it comes before we have to find another provider.

Similarly, the ability to batch duplicate courses would be a huge time saver, especially if when doing so, those duplicated courses could be assigned to a particular department. We need to duplicate a lot of courses and curricula for different clients so they are able to create their own sessions for those programs without having visibility to sessions that other clients are running. Currently, we need to duplicate courses one at a time and this is very cumbersome and inefficient.

Amanda Jones - We'd like to see every editable attribute available in a PullDown list:

• General

• Syllabus

• Enrollment Rules

• Completion

• Availability

• etc....

Once an item is selected from a pulldown list, then a new page open with every item that can be bulk changed. Some examples:

General - Practically Nothing will be editable here. Title will be grayed out because no one should want to bulk change their course titles to all the same thing. Same with Description. Language would be selectable. All tags across all courses should be displayed and they can either be deletable (a no longer valid tag), or a new tag can be added to all selectable course.

Attributes: Course evaluations/ratings should be selectable between enabled and/or disabled. Audience, Goals, External ID, and Vendor should all have blank fields that can be filled out and uploaded to all courses selected.

...and so on...

This would be a game changer.

Thanks,

Yes please! What a TIME SAVER!

I cannot stress how basic, useful and essential this functionality is. I've submitted this idea under a different name (once or twice I'b guessing), but I currently spend a ridiculous amount of time changing the same parameter across multiple courses when we make updates. Categories, languages, availability and enrollment rules, thumbnails, etc. As many things as can be included in bulk actions should be. Everyone thinks their issue is important and I'm no different :) This needs to be a top priority. Would be the single biggest improvement to the admin experience.

Additional Course Parameters that would be useful to bulk update:
- Language; allow bulk language updates (i.e. if Courses have a reportable parameter all courses can have language updated)
- Tags/categories; allow bulk tagging and categorization operations
- Availability; change access date, expiration or due date
- Course enrollment parameters
- Course attributes and additional text based fields; allow bulk update of general text based fields (not Title or description for courses)

If possible Course Categories too

I think it would help to be able to change category and visibility rules in bulk as well

We are actively exploring how we might enable bulk edits for courses!

It sounds like the most-wanted attributes right now are:

• Status (Active/Inactive)

• Due Dates

• Course Evaluations

Are there any others that are at the top of the list in terms of potential time-savings for your workflows?

Im spending too much time deactivating a about 30 courses that have been replaced and it's taking me way too long. If I could multi select and make inactive like you can with users, it would save alot of time when these instances arise. It can work both ways too when you're building courses.

I agree! I was just thinking about this today as I was creating a datasheet view in SharePoint to make bulk update to our one of our lists. It would be awesome if Absorb had a similar option to make bulk updates to multiple courses either like SharePoint datasheet/excel where you can can make a change in one box and drag it like excel to update the other items. Or even easier a just click a button to make the changes.