User data should be prepared off line and pasted into the form. Data should be TAB delimited text with the following columns. Row one should contain the column headings, also TAB delimited. The order of the columns it not important.

Obligatory Columns

• name
  The name of the new user as it should appear on web pages. Can include title. Can give first initial or first name or preferred name of user. Will normally include surname.
• surname
  Surname for the purposes of sorting lists of users. (For some overseas students surname may not be the last name.)
• initials
  Please include all initials, including the surname initial using upper case letters and exluding any spaces or punctuation symbols.
• alias
  The value of the selected unique identifier for this person, e.g. payroll number, course enrolment number etc.

Optional Columns

• username
  The user name must begin with a text string that matches the prefix for the administrative zone. If you don't include this column user names are generated automatically using the initials.
• password
  If you don't include a password a random password is generated.

Other Columns

You may include other columns in the data and these will simply be echoed back in the output table. This may be convenient for creating a mail merge data file that will help you inform users of their user names and passwords.