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Providing CSVs for student importing

General CSV Import / Export

Any spreadsheets being uploaded must be exported to CSV format; The process for this will differ depending on your spreadsheet editor.

The first row of an imported CSV should contain the names of the fields being imported, each row after should contain the data for a single imported record e.g:

First Name Surname Email
Alice Alison alice.alison@example.com
Bob Bobson bob.bobson@example.com
Charles Charleson charles.charleson@example.com

The importer will fail to import any column that has spaces before or after the field name in the first row.

Importing Students

The student importer takes in some extra fields to allow for the linking and/or creation of student groups on import. The fields for importing Students are:

First Name Surname Email Username
optional optional required unless "Username" is provided required unless "Email" is provided
- - Must be a valid email
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Password Account Type School Name Student Group Name
required required required if linking/creating student group required if linking/creating student group

Must be 8+ characters with 1 capital letter and 1 number

Set this field to "Student" If provided, must be the exact name of your school in the Wordchain admin If provided, must be the exact name of an existing student group in the Wordchain admin