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(Student) User Import - Include/Update External ID?

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Carmen Jimenez

Per this article: https://support.edynamiclearning.com/support/solutions/articles/3000126661-buzz-bulk-adding-users You have the following fields to update when importing users:

Action,First Name,LastName,Username,Password,Email,Status

Add,Firstname1,Lastname1,user1,password1,example1@example-email.com,Active

Add,Firstname2,Lastname2,user2,password2,example2@example-email.com,Active

Add,Firstname3,Lastname3,user3,password3,example3@example-email.com,Active

However, is it possible to add the "External ID" in the file? Unless I am mistakenly thinking about the "external ID", we would like to use student pupil IDs (from our SIS) as the external ID in the LMS and I do not want to click on each individual account and manually type the ID number (increasing the risk of error).

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Doug Hoover

Yes, you can include external ID for students when doing bulk adding students.  I include an external ID for all new students when I bulk add at the beginning of the school year.  Here's the column headers I use...

Action First name Last Name Username external ID Password email
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Carmen Jimenez

Thanks Doug Hoover... is there any documentation showing what fields we can update (other than the initial 7 as linked originally)?
I'm going to look into whether or not we can also "bulk update" accounts via import file... I suspect we would need to export our user list so we would then have LMS's "User ID" to reference the account and maybe an "Update" action instead of "Add". 

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