N.B: If you click on one of the images, it
will pop up in a larger zoomed in display
for you.
When added to a
course,
it allows a teacher to upload a CSV file,
to
create groups and groupings for existing
enrolled students, making this process
faster
and more user-friendly.
Viewing the Course user group
uploader block
Access to the Course user group
uploader block
is controlled by capabilities as outlined
below. This block can be added to and
viewed from an individual course.
![The course group upload block](/desk/file/5949265/coursegroupupload-general-block-original.png)
To upload a CSV file. click the
"Import file page" link within the Course
group upload block.
Import file page
Access to the import file page is
controlled by capabilities as outlined
below. At the top of the page, it provides
CSV upload instructions, which are:
You need three columns in your
CSV file for uploading:{useridentifier},
{group name}, {grouping name} (Please
note: useridentifier can
be either idnumber or email) where the
first row should be the header for each
column.
idnumber | group | grouping |
---|---|---|
11250195 | bbgroup5 | bbgrouping |
10250328 | chargroup2 | chargrouping |
12230918 | lawY26 | law |
![The csv upload page for the course group upload block](/desk/file/5927828/coursegroupupload-general-importgrouppage-original.png)
To import groups/grouping in the import
file page:
- Upload the CSV into the "Upload your
CSV file here:" upload area.
- Select the CSV separator type.
- Select the Encoding type.
- Click "Update".
CSV file formatting
Your CSV file file should be
formatted with three fields per
line:
<useridentifier>, <group
name>, <grouping name>
If you are using user email as the
useridentifier, you MUST include a header
(first line) in your csv file of
‘email,group,grouping’.
For each record:
- If the useridentifier is not found in
the
course, it will print a warning, skip
this
record and continue;
- If the group/grouping exists, the user
will be added to the
group/grouping;
- If the group/grouping does not exist,
the
new group/grouping will be added.
(Please
note: useridentifier can be either
idnumber or email)