diff --git a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportFromFileService.java b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportFromFileService.java
index b32a72fbbc0b..5a7362822d2a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportFromFileService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportFromFileService.java
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public ProgrammingExercise importProgrammingExerciseFromFile(ProgrammingExercise
             var oldShortName = getProgrammingExerciseFromDetailsFile(importExerciseDir).getShortName();
             programmingExerciseService.validateNewProgrammingExerciseSettings(originalProgrammingExercise, course);
             // TODO: creating the whole exercise (from template) is a bad solution in this case, we do not want the template content, instead we want the file content of the zip
-            newProgrammingExercise = programmingExerciseService.createProgrammingExercise(originalProgrammingExercise, true);
+            newProgrammingExercise = programmingExerciseService.createProgrammingExercise(originalProgrammingExercise);
             if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(originalProgrammingExercise.isStaticCodeAnalysisEnabled())) {
                 staticCodeAnalysisService.createDefaultCategories(newProgrammingExercise);
             }
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportService.java b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportService.java
index 8e049963a70a..7ed25cc01116 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseImportService.java
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ public ProgrammingExercise importProgrammingExercise(ProgrammingExercise origina
 
         if (recreateBuildPlans) {
             // Create completely new build plans for the exercise
-            programmingExerciseService.setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(newProgrammingExercise, false);
+            programmingExerciseService.setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(newProgrammingExercise);
         }
         else {
             // We have removed the automatic build trigger from test to base for new programming exercises.
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseService.java b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseService.java
index 7db51a95d51d..230695ca1d80 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/service/ProgrammingExerciseService.java
@@ -272,12 +272,11 @@ public ProgrammingExerciseService(ProgrammingExerciseRepository programmingExerc
      * </ol>
      *
      * @param programmingExercise The programmingExercise that should be setup
-     * @param isImportedFromFile  defines if the programming exercise is imported from a file
      * @return The new setup exercise
      * @throws GitAPIException If something during the communication with the remote Git repository went wrong
      * @throws IOException     If the template files couldn't be read
      */
-    public ProgrammingExercise createProgrammingExercise(ProgrammingExercise programmingExercise, boolean isImportedFromFile) throws GitAPIException, IOException {
+    public ProgrammingExercise createProgrammingExercise(ProgrammingExercise programmingExercise) throws GitAPIException, IOException {
         final User exerciseCreator = userRepository.getUser();
         VersionControlService versionControl = versionControlService.orElseThrow();
 
@@ -344,7 +343,7 @@ public ProgrammingExercise createProgrammingExercise(ProgrammingExercise program
         channelService.createExerciseChannel(savedProgrammingExercise, Optional.ofNullable(programmingExercise.getChannelName()));
 
         // Step 10: Setup build plans for template and solution participation
-        setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(savedProgrammingExercise, isImportedFromFile);
+        setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(savedProgrammingExercise);
         savedProgrammingExercise = programmingExerciseRepository.findForCreationByIdElseThrow(savedProgrammingExercise.getId());
 
         // Step 11: Update task from problem statement
@@ -511,10 +510,8 @@ public void validateCheckoutDirectoriesUnchanged(ProgrammingExercise originalPro
      *
      * @param programmingExercise Programming exercise for the build plans should be generated. The programming
      *                                exercise should contain a fully initialized template and solution participation.
-     * @param isImportedFromFile  defines if the programming exercise is imported from a file, if the
-     *                                exercise is imported, the build plans will not be triggered to prevent erroneous builds
      */
-    public void setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(ProgrammingExercise programmingExercise, boolean isImportedFromFile) throws JsonProcessingException {
+    public void setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(ProgrammingExercise programmingExercise) throws JsonProcessingException {
         String projectKey = programmingExercise.getProjectKey();
         // Get URLs for repos
         var exerciseRepoUri = programmingExercise.getVcsTemplateRepositoryUri();
@@ -541,13 +538,9 @@ public void setupBuildPlansForNewExercise(ProgrammingExercise programmingExercis
             programmingExerciseBuildConfigRepository.saveAndFlush(programmingExercise.getBuildConfig());
         }
 
-        // if the exercise is imported from a file, the changes fixing the project name will trigger a first build anyway, so
-        // we do not trigger them here
-        if (!isImportedFromFile) {
-            // trigger BASE and SOLUTION build plans once here
-            continuousIntegrationTriggerService.orElseThrow().triggerBuild(programmingExercise.getTemplateParticipation());
-            continuousIntegrationTriggerService.orElseThrow().triggerBuild(programmingExercise.getSolutionParticipation());
-        }
+        // trigger BASE and SOLUTION build plans once here
+        continuousIntegrationTriggerService.orElseThrow().triggerBuild(programmingExercise.getTemplateParticipation());
+        continuousIntegrationTriggerService.orElseThrow().triggerBuild(programmingExercise.getSolutionParticipation());
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/web/ProgrammingExerciseResource.java b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/web/ProgrammingExerciseResource.java
index 45e755529db2..fe709890df91 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/web/ProgrammingExerciseResource.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/web/ProgrammingExerciseResource.java
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ public ResponseEntity<ProgrammingExercise> createProgrammingExercise(@RequestBod
 
         try {
             // Setup all repositories etc
-            ProgrammingExercise newProgrammingExercise = programmingExerciseService.createProgrammingExercise(programmingExercise, false);
+            ProgrammingExercise newProgrammingExercise = programmingExerciseService.createProgrammingExercise(programmingExercise);
 
             // Create default static code analysis categories
             if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(programmingExercise.isStaticCodeAnalysisEnabled())) {