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1501.

Open the CSV file in your preferred spreadsheet software. In the column *remoteuser*, add or change the username that your users have when authenticating in your regular system that you have connected to Mahara. You may also change other fields, e.g. their name, email address etc. If you want to add a new user directly in this CSV file, you can do so as well.

1502.

You must provide a password for this new user. All other users do not need to have a value in the password field. If you only want to update existing users, you can leave the password field entirely off.

1503.

Go to *Administration → Users → Add users by CSV*.

1504.

**Institution**: Choose the correct institution **and** authentication method for which you want to update your users. This allows you to switch all users in the CSV file from one authentication method to another.

1505.

**CSV file**: Choose the CSV file from your computer that you had updated.

1506.

**Update users**: Put a check mark here because you want to update existing user accounts.

1507.

**General account options**: You can make changes to the default account options for all the users, e.g. give them multiple journals by default, change their interface language etc.

1508.

Click the *Add users by CSV* button to start the user update. This process may take a little while depending on how many users you are changing.

1509.

You receive a report on the page upon the successful completion of the upgrade. If the upgrade fails, error messages help you to resolve the problem. No users are updated until all errors are resolved.

1510.

If you intend to update more than 100 users at the same time, you may run into problems, and the server may reject your CSV file as the update process is a very memory intense one. If that is the case, you would have to split your CSV file into smaller ones with fewer users in them.