Imported course shells do not have certificates. If a certificate is needed, create a course first and import the enrollments into that.
When creating course records, do not put credits on a record that is not complete (complete=0). The user may want to claim a different number of credits, however the credit record imported is the credit record that remains. The only workarounds are to re-import a completion with credit for the learner, or manually edit the credit.
The global course report importer should only be used for importing legacy data. It is not included in PARS reports. To include in PARS, use the course-level importer.
Occasionally, an import will hang due to a discrepancy in the file and the system will lock the import. When this happens, you should review the import file to ensure there are no special characters in the data or additional spaces in the headers. To unlock the importer to re-import, following these steps:
The import will be unlocked allowing you to re-import.
The course record importer cannot be used to update enrollments or credit records that have been assigned to a user.