When using the bulk course creation tool Upoad courses, the site course default setting of Completion tracking set to Yes is not properly set but instead the newly created courses have it set to No.

To reproduce:

1) Enable Completion tracking in Site admin > Advanced features and in Site admin > Courses > Course default settings > Completion tracking = Yes

2) Do a bulk upload of test courses with the minimal fields required (shortname, fullname, category) in Site admin > Courses > Upload courses.

Sample upload file:
shortname,fullname,category
test101,Test 101,1
test102,Test 102,1
test103,Test 103,1

3) Confirm that in the created courses in Course admin > Edit settings > Completion tracking that 'Enable completion tracking' is still set to No.

Desired result:

It should honor the course default settings set at the site level in the same way as a manually created course does.

It would be nice if the ability to set Completion tracking was also an option in the defaults area during the upload process in that same way that other settings like Gradebook and Groups is.

Workaround:

Explicitly forcing completion in the upload file (enablecompletion = 1) does properly work.

Forum topic: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264421