We presently have about 300 students in our instance of Moodle that are active. They already have logins and passwords and have already been through one course.
We recently started to use Sonis (a student information system) to register all of our students for the next session of courses. So we added another 120 students for the next session. So we have
300 Students already in Moodle
120 Students only in Sonis but need to be in Moodle.
We need to import the 420 students from Sonis into their respective courses. Sonis produced an XML file with the data like the following:
I have a few questions:
1. Can I import them and merge people with the same name? The ones on Moodle do not have the ID that is associated with them from Sonis. Is there a way to import and merge them into Moodle, so that I do not create duplicate accounts with same names?
2. Will it create only new accounts and not create duplicate accounts for those that are already on Moodle?
3. Will it email the students their information automatically?
<person>
<sourcedid>
<source>ABC Wilson University SONISWeb</source>
<id>AD4138781</id>
</sourcedid>
<userid>AD4138781</userid>
<name>
<fn>Pat Wiggins</fn>
<n>
<family>Wiggins</family>
<given>Pat</given>
<suffix></suffix>
</n>
</name>
<email>patIU@gmail.com</email>
</person>