If you need to extract a list of all the Students from the Schools Information Management System (SIMS) into a file suitable for importing into the SchoolSuite Bulk User Import Wizard, a step-by-step walk through is available that will allow you to create a Comma Separated Values (CSV) text file that can be used by the SchoolSuite Import Wizard to bulk create user accounts on the curriculum network.

The user's login name is normally calculated by the Import Wizard from a set of rules contained in the user template selected at the start of the Import process. The user templates are highly customisable using the SchoolSuite User Template Editor and it is generally recommended that the user login name is generated in this way.

However, there are occasions, such as importing user accounts from an existing network to a new network, where the option to set the login name from within the import CSV file is useful. In such cases simply a ensure that the CSV file includes a third column that specifies the login name and the wizard will not attempt to calculate a login name for that user. The wizard will still validate the login name to ensure that ambiguity and duplication are avoided.