Import and export FAQ

How do I import users?

• See Upload users.

How do I export a list of users?

• Go to Settings>Site administration>Users>Accounts>Bulk user actions and select the users you wish to export. From the dropdown “With selected users”, choose “download” and choose the type of file you wish to download from the text, ODS or Excel.

• Another way is is to export a list from the gradebook in a course. The fields you seem to get are:

First name, Surname, ID number, Institution, Department, Email address, Course total

How do I import the course data?

• See Import course data.

How do I import and export grades?

• Grade import
• Grade export

How do I import glossary entries?

For details see Import glossary entries.

A useful tool is

• Yasu Imao’s LMS glossaryXMLconverter_html 4 A JavaScript based converter, works directly in your browser.

How can I enable Excel export for users?

With the Database activity, you have the ability to allow users to export the data in CSV or ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet from OpenOffice) format, both of which will open up in MS Excel.

With this functionality, users can choose to export the data of all fields or only of selected fields. (Picture fields cannot be exported.)

However, this feature is not enabled by default for users. You need to override the user permissions for the Database activity and choose ‘Allow’ for the permission to ‘View presets from all users’ from Settings>Database administration>Permissions.

This will result in the ‘Export’ tab being visible to users in the Database activity.

How do I import and export questions?

• See Import questions and Export questions.

• LMS XML converter Free online service to create quizzes and glossaries from existing files.

• OpenOffice template for creating questions in GIFT format
• Excel to GIFT format export
• The complete list: Word processors and Spreadsheets tools that create GIFTs

Which formats are used for importing questions?

If you want to create questions outside of LMS these two text based formats might be the most important:

• GIFT – LMS ‘proprietary’ text format for import and export. Reasonably comprehensive.

See GIFT format

• TestGen can export question using the “Blackboard 6.x-9.x” format and these zip files can be imported in LMS using the “Blackboard” import format.
• Examview recent versions can also create Blackboard zip files that LMS “Blackboard” import format is able to import.

You find the complete list of supported formats under Import questions.

What encodings should I use?

The recommended standard encoding for all LMS files is UTF-8.