How to bulk retire courses

Bulk retiring courses using the bulk edit button on the courses page

If you want to bulk retire/unretire courses in the interface just select the courses you need to retire and click bulk edit on the courses page and select

Bulk retiring courses using the export, edit, import method via CSV in Excel

These instructions are useful when you don't want to bulk retire/unretire courses using the bulk edit button on the courses page because you need the additional flexibility you get with Excel.

Export the Training Courses to a CSV file using the Import/Export Global Setting tool
Remove all rows for courses you do NOT wish to retire (they will be ignored as we are going to perform an edit, then reimport/update)
Update the IsActive column value to FALSE for all the courses you want to retire
Save your changes making sure you KEEP the file format a CSV
Import Training Courses using the same tool
Select your edited CSV and import it (This will update the IsActive value for those courses to "Retire" them.)