Enrolment

Just a regular list? Try the "upload users" feature in the admin section. Which, of course, assumes you *are* the admin. (Hadn't thought about having course instructors add...hmmm...)

Let me know if I'm not grasping your question... thanks! Derry

If you are sure you want to import multiple user accounts from a text file, then you need to format your text file as follows:

• Each line of the file contains one record
• Each record is a series of data separated by commas
• The first record of the file is special, and contains a list of fieldnames. This defines the format of the rest of the file.

  Required fieldnames: these fields must be included in the first record, and defined for each user

  username, password, firstname, lastname, email

  Default fieldnames: these are optional - if they are not included then the values are taken from the primary admin

  institution, department, city, country, lang, auth, timezone

  Optional fieldnames: all of these are completely optional. The course names are the "shortnames" of the courses - if present then the user will be enrolled as students in those courses. Group names must be associated to the corresponding courses, i.e. group1 to course1, etc.

  idnumber, icq, phone1, phone2, address, url, description, mailformat, maildisplay, htmleditor, autosubscribe, course1, course2, course3, course4, course5, group1, group2, group3, group4, group5, type1, type2, type3, type4, type5

• Commas within the data should be encoded as &#44 - the script will automatically decode these back to commas.
• For Boolean fields, use 0 for false and 1 for true.
• Types are used to tell Moodle whether the user is a student or a teacher if a corresponding course exists (e.g. type2 corresponds to course2). 1 = Student, 2 = Editing Teacher, and 3 = Non-editing Teacher. If type is left blank, or if no course is specified, the user is default to student.
• For courses, use the short name for the course
• Note: If a user is already registered in the Moodle user database, this script will return the userid number (database index) for that user, and will enrol the user as a student in any of the specified courses WITHOUT updating the other specified data.

Here is an example of a valid import file:

username, password, firstname, lastname, email, lang, idnumber, maildisplay, course1, group1, type1
jonest, verysecret, Tom, Jones, jonest@someplace.edu, en, 3663737, 1, Intro101, Section 1, 1
reznort, somesecret, Trent, Reznor, reznort@someplace.edu, en_us, 6736733, 0, Advanced202, Section 3, 3

I have my excel file set up properly with headings and such.  The problem I am encountering is when I try to  upload my file.   I navigate to the file and choose to upload.  Moodle then asks if I want to open or save the file.   I have chosen both but it doesn't upload the file.   It just saves it or opens it in dreamweaver.    It isn't uploading.    What am I doing wrong?  Thanks ~ Brenda

At my college we found solution which does the job of inputting students into groups without need of creating complicated CSV or other issues.

It is quite simple:

Example you have 10 courses with same resources but students come to college/school in morning and evening.

1. Create groups manually in only one of those courses

2. Backup that course with only "Include enrolled users" option selected

3. Restore Backup file from point 2 into other 9 courses.

4. Done (at least works at our college).