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By default, your learning environment adds new user accounts and skips existing users lines where the username matches an existing account. Set "Upload Type" to "Add new and update existing users" if you want to update existing user accounts.

 


  • Add all, append number to usernames if needed
  • Add new and update existing users
  • Update existing users only

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Warning: errors updating existing accounts can affect your users badly. Be careful when using the options to update.

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  • If the password is included, values should meet the requirements for the site's Password policy
  • To force password change for a particular user, set the password field to "changeme"
  • If omitted, a password will be generated for each user and welcome emails will be sent out

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The following fields are optional when adding users. To provide values other than the default for these optional fields, include one or more of these in your upload file:

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The custom field must exist before you run the upload function.

Dates in Custom User Fields

When adding a Date/Time custom user field, the date format must be YYYY-MM-DD. For example, to show a date of September 1, 2017, the date must be 2017-09-01.

Special Fields

Special fields are used for changing usernames, suspending or deleting.

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titleNew in 2.5.6.10

The sign up users for face to face sessions, simply enter the ID of the session using the following headers in the CSV file:

course1,type1,role1,group1,enrolperiod1,course2,type2,role2,group2,enrolperiod2,session1,session2

In the above example, session1 refers to the ID of the first session a user will be signed up for, session 2 to the second session, and so on. The ID of a session is identified by its URL when viewing a session. For example, the unique ID for "http://www.dualcode.com/mod/facetoface/sessions.php?s=139" is 139.

 


Cohort Field

You can add users to cohorts. Cohort ID numbers or non-numeric cohort IDs of existing cohorts must be used (names are not allowed).

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