I am uploading my students as an CSV file using moodle 2.3. Under 'maildisplay' I have 'Hide my email address from other users'. Everytime I add this field and try to upload I get an 'Error writing to database' message. I've tried a number of things already: moving the field to a different column in the spreadheet and a number of other things. What gives?
If I can get this to work it will be much easier than having my students hide their addresses themselves.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi Robert, I've been having this same issue. Did a bit of research around the net and Moodle docs and have found that if you put a value of 3 in the maildisplay column for all users you're trying to upload, then all of the created users (if you go into their newly created user profiles and check) will now have a setting of Hide my email address from everyone.
I have tested this and it has worked for me in version 2.3.7+
Note this only hides students' email addresses from other students - Administrators and Teachers / Non-Editing Teachers can still view students' email addresses.
Please let me know how you go!
