Bulk Import or ability to upload a CSV file of parent emails and teacher emails to invite them to your school and respective classes is an option for the premium schools only. Here are the steps to perform bulk import actions. 




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Bulk Import of Teachers to the Classes and the Community (creating classes via CSV file upload)

  • Download the attached CSV template (Teacher_template_withClasses.CSV)
  • Fill all the information
  • In Bloomz app - Click on the Community in the left menu
  • Click on the Community
  • Click the Setting Gear
  • Click Edit Settings
  • Click on the Bulk Data Import tab
  • Select Bulk Import spreadsheets to download ( This is an option only in Desktop!)
  • Upload the attached Teacher CSV file with the data filled in choosing appropriate rules for upload Full Data

    If this option is turned on, any users not present in the uploaded template for a class are removed from the corresponding Bloomz class during import. If it is off, no deletions will happen.

    Archive

    If this option is turned on, any classes present in Bloomz and not present in the template are archived. If it is off, the classes are left in active state. The archived classes can be activated from application later, if required.

    Ignore Errors and Continue Processing

    Choose this option to ignore errors in the file and continue to process the valid records. At the end of processing, you will receive a status email with details on records that were processed and records that were skippe

  • teacher_name - full name of the teacher.
  • teacher_email - email of the teacher.
  • class_name - the name of the class you want the system to create in your school. New classes will be created for every class name you enter in this CSV file. 
  • class_sis_id - can be a number from your SIS system or can be any numeric which is unique to that class. (If you have uploaded the parent file first then please get the class_name and class_id's from the parent file)


Bulk Import of Teachers to the Existing Classes and the Community (classes already created manually)-

This scenario is when you already manually created all the classes in your community and now you are trying to add teachers to the classes through bulk import.  In this case, the class_name and the class_id have to be fetched from Bloomz by following the steps below - 

  • Download the attached CSV template (Teacher_template_withClasses.CSV)
  • Fill all the information
  • For the class_name and class_sis_id 
  • Click on the Community
  • Click the Setting Gear
  • Click Edit Settings
  • Click on the Bulk Data Import tab
  • Select Bulk Import spreadsheets to download ( This is an option only in Desktop!)
  • Click Generated by Bloomz
  • A file with the class Id's will be downloaded (Ex: Shown in the image below)
  • Use the class_name and class_id in this file to populate the class_name and class_id in the Teacher template.