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title: "Exporting or Downloading users in Moodle"
description: "In this article, exporting and downloading the user data from Moodle 2.3 will be discussed. Saving user data from Moodle is done with the Bulk user actions in the Moodle Site administration section...."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/moodle/download-bulk-users/
date: 2012-10-24
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Moodle"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Exporting or Downloading users in Moodle

In this article, exporting and downloading the user data from Moodle 2.3 will be discussed. Saving user data from Moodle is done with the **Bulk user actions** in the Moodle Site administration section. This option is a time saver, as the administrator of the Moodle site can download the users in a .csv file and add new users to the.csv file for importing. The .csv file can be edited in a spread sheet program like Open Office Calc or Microsoft Excel. To see the previous article in this education channel, please visit [Creating Cohorts in the Moodle site administration](/support/edu/moodle/user-cohorts/)

### Exporting and downloading user data as a .csv file.

1. [Log into the Moodle Dashboard](/support/edu/moodle/moodle-login-administrator/)
2. [![download-bulk-users-1-select-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-1-select.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-1-select.gif) In the **Settings** on the left, Navigate to the **Site administration** > **Users** > **Accounts** > **Bulk **user actions section. **Important!** Keep in mind that [Editing must be turned on](/support/edu/moodle/creating-courses-in-moodle/) in the **Settings** > **Front Page Settings** section in order to edit any of these options.
3. [![download-bulk-users-2-download-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-2-download.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-2-download.gif) In the **Users in List** section, add the users to export by selecting the user name in the **Available** box and clicking **Add to selection**. Then in the **With selected users ‘choose’** drop box, select **Download** and then click **Go**.
4. [![download-bulk-users-3-save-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-3-save.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_105_download-bulk-users_download-bulk-users-3-save.gif) Finally there is a **Download** page that displays. Click the **Download in text format** link (.xls and .ods formats are also available for download). The browser will prompt to save the file to your local computer. Click **OK** to save the file. The file will be saved as a .csv file format

This concludes this tutorial on Exporting users in Moodle. Please check the next article on [Importing or Uploading users in Moodle](/support/edu/moodle/upload-users/). For more information on this Education Channel please visit [Managing users and roles in Moodle](/support/news/twitter-users/)