Users and Roles

Users and Roles

by sunil subrai -
Number of replies: 4
Hi

Been searching for a while now in the forums and cannot find an answer.

Is it possible to set the 'role' of a user within a csv file when uploading users?
For example, heads of department should be 'Editing Teachers',general teaching staff should have a 'Non-editing Teacher' role and students should be 'student'.

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Re: Users and Roles

by Aaron Souza -

I would also like to know the answer to this. Hope this little bump helps.

Aaron

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Re: Users and Roles

by Yu Zhang -
Hi,

You can do this by going to Users->Accounts->Upload Users. There's a help file there you can read regarding the formatting of the csv file.

Cheers,

Yu
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Re: Users and Roles

by Val Brooks -
I was trying to do this today - I saw the help file and thought I had it cracked, but when I tried to upload my users to include their role, it didn't work - it said as it uploaded 'cannot assign role'. Now I did not have a 'type' in my csv file - do I need that - and if so, what is the difference between a 'type' and a 'role'?
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Re: Users and Roles

by Kristina Schneider -
Actually the file you are talking about lets us attribute the role a user has in a particular course. However, is there a way that we can identify the general system role for a user in the system?

At the moment we need to set them up manually here - /admin/roles/manage.php but with over 5000 users (and I'm usually bulk uploading a thousand at a time) it becomes an almost impossible task to do manually.

Any advice?

Many thanks,
Kristina