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8d. Moodle - Import users from a spreadsheet

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Document Overview
This document is part of a series of documents designed for teachers who are new
to Moodle, but who may also have some responsibility in managing Moodles
implementation in a school environment.
Previous documents in this series discussed how to create a new Course within
your Moodle framework, and to organise those Courses into Topics or Weeks, and
to populate each Topic (or Week) with Resources and Activities.

Prior to enrolling in a Course, students must be registered users in Moodle.

This document discusses how to bulk import students into Moodle from a
spreadsheet.
It is also possible to enrol students in courses using this import method, which may
be useful in a small school environment.

Some of the processes described in this document assume that you have Administrator access to be able to
modify the Moodle site.
If you dont have the appropriate access to be able to undertake these activities, contact your schools Moodle
administrator. Alternatively, if you would like to experiment with the processes described in this document, you
can setup a free Moodle account (with you as the administrator) at www.keytoschool.com.

Wazzas QuickStart - 8d. Getting Started with Moodle - Importing users from a spreadsheet

1.

Create a spreadsheet
1.1. Open a new spreadsheet and create the following columns:
username

password

firstname

lastname

email

Complete the information in each column as shown above.

1.2. If you have already created some courses in Moodle, students can be
imported into those courses by including additional columns (with the
course short names):
username password firstname lastname email course1 course2

1.3. Save the spreadsheet in its normal format.

1.4. Save the spreadsheet as a csv file.

Wazzas QuickStart - 8d. Getting Started with Moodle - Importing users from a spreadsheet

2.

Import students into Moodle

2.1. Log into Moodle as an Administrator.

2.2. Go to Site Administration > Users > Upload users.

2.3. Click on the button to Choose a file, then navigate to the csv file you
saved previously.

2.4. Click the Upload users button

Wazzas QuickStart - 8d. Getting Started with Moodle - Importing users from a spreadsheet

2.5. You will be shown a preview of the users to be imported.

2.6. Scroll to the bottom of the screen - you can accept the default values and click on the Upload users button.

2.7. The results of the import will be sown on the screen.

2.8. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on the Continue button.

2.9. The users that you have imported can now login and enrol in Courses.
Wazzas QuickStart - 8d. Getting Started with Moodle - Importing users from a spreadsheet