So let's create our flat file to enroll the five new hires in the safety course.
Open up a new spreadsheet in Excel or Open Office.
Since this is a self-paced course, we are only going to create a four field flat file. The first column will be for the operation. The second column will be for the role you are assigning the user. Make sure you use the roles that are located in the Flat file mapping section of the Flat file settings. The third column will be for the user id number. The fourth column will be for the course id number. Do not include a header row in your spreadsheet. Only include the enrollment information.
The two values that can be entered in the operation column are add, to add a user, or del, to delete a user. For the first five rows under the first column, enter add because we are adding five new users to the course.
The roles that can be assigned with the flat file plugin are defined at the bottom of the settings page. We are...