If there is do i put the list in as potential students or as enrolled students.?The email authentication isn't vital to me.
Thanks for your help. I'm quite excited by the potential of this
i can't upload users using CSV files format with arabic names for users any ideas how to solve this (usnig moodle version 1.6) ,
Note : when i save the excel sheet with CSV format it save the files with seperated coloms (;) so i get an editor to replace the (;) with (,) to let moodle accept it
thanks
Okay, the problem was Firefox not displaying Hebrew characters. If I use IE and select Encoding Hebrew the usernames appear correctly (and they're not even backwards). But now I can't login. The student's login is fname-lname in Hebrew characters. But the login doesn't work:
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Hi Thomas; Thanks for your tips, are really good. I can see that I can manage all my users using CVS file format (from Excell). But I'm not sure what happend if I like to add a new users, just will be necessary to put this new users into the same file and upload it again (with all the old users)??, what about with the old users information ?? and what about if I have a username twice??.
If I like to delete some users, Can I use the same file??
I'm using Moodle for create Intranets. I have 5 intranets, and I have users working in just one of them, but some users are working in more than one. I receive new users every time, and I like to manage all users using an external file (add, delete, changes, courses). Can I??
Sorry for my english and Thanks a lot for your answers
Alejandro
You don't need to re-upload the old users along with the new ones - in fact you can't, because you'll be trying to re-create the existing users and Moodle will object to the duplicate usernames.
At the moment (at least in 1.5) you can't do a bulk delete, even from a CSV file - users have to be deleted individually.
Chris
THANKS,
Any chance I could speak with you to get a couple of questions answered.
Bellmore, NY, USA1 1710
Thank you. Excel tips very useful!
Can someone digest these entries and create a "Now that moodle is installed, what's next? document.
Although once you've got it it's easy, I find setting up users to be an stumbling block to getting started with moodle.
How do you use template as described to make username for example:
%l%1f
Like does it say somewhere that you should set up a course BEFORE you upload users so the can be auto enrolled?
Have you read through the docs? http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload_users
i can't upload users using CSV files format with arabic names for users any ideas how to solve this (usnig moodle version 1.6) ,
Note : when i save the excel sheet with CSV format it save the files with seperated coloms (;) so i get an editor to replace the (;) with (,) to let moodle accept it
thanks
hi
please help me in this problem
i uploded users from a file and it worked good
now i want to enrol students i transferd to courses
i have a file csv with (add , student,idnumber,idnumber)
where must i put it ? and how can i fire it, i feel it is not just like users upload
it is not clear, i tried to search but i did not understand.
pleeeeeeease help me
I'm trying to bulk update the Funding field by using a .csv, but are unable to work out what the field is called. Anyone know ?
I'm posting this as a help to others using the USER UPLOAD process.
I do a lot of enrollments from excell spreadsheets and, unfortunately, have a lot of experience fixing bugs in the data. Some frequent issues in data I've repaired: The error statement usually doest help enough but use the development mode anyway.
Unexpected binary or non alphanumeric characters. for example, a phone number like "+1-713-555-1212 (Houston Office)". Sometimes a binary or return character follows a correct looking field. I have Anglicize Spanish names to get my English language system to accept them.
Trailing spaces in fields not expecting them. This is particular bothersome, since you can't see the spaces. Use find and replace to locate them.
Cases letters spelling out entries normally made from drop-down lists. Double check that you are using contry codes and not names of countries, i.e., "CA" and not "Canada"
Some people put in "," Commas as in "Beazley, William" in a name field and it creates a missmatch on data fields. I've seen commas where periods should be in emails.
Sometime you can look at the text in notebook or other text editor and see the spaces or special character. Sometimes, changing the text type to ISO will jam the data into Moodle where you can edit the ones that issure error messages.
Try uploading one or a few lines at a time to find the line giving trouble.
Even with all the editing and force feeding and fixing, it's still faster than cut and pasting one item at a time.
Today, I uploaded 56 names with enrollments and group assignments. I had to create about 15 seperate CSV files to debug and track down each error in the data. Garbage in garbage out.
I hope this helps someone.
Bill Beazley
Thanks for the advice Bill. I would be interested to know where the data you are using for the spreadsheets is coming from. Do you use a data form in Excel for your users to complete? Do you have set fields for your users to type in the data? If you do, what fields are you using? Do you have access to Open Office as well as Excel?
Sorry for all the questions but I am building a spreadsheet with Open Office at the moment (which I shall duplicate in Excel subsequently) that hopefully will use data integrity to avoid some of the problems you mention, then filter and parse the raw input data to create a clean CSV output for upload to Moodle.
Paul
I hope this could help some people.
I was getting "User not added" error for some users, with no indication as to what the error could be.
After fiddling with all kind of syntax variations, I found that the name of the institution a user is affiliated with is limited (not sure of the exact limit, but it seems to be near 50 characters).
Hope that could help someone else!