This facility can save you or your colleagues from having to type in the names of
the students you want to register into Wordshark or Numbershark. It is most worth
doing if you want to register 30 or more students. This feature does NOT work for
registering staff, who need to be given individual passwords.
For detailed instructions, with screenshots suitable to give to clerical staff, click
here.
In outline you:
1. Open Wordshark/Numbershark. Go to File / Version. Check that it is release 3.07
or later.
2. Obtain a file of your student’s names, in the format: name,name,name
Examples: Billy Smith, Freda Tonks, Willy Wonka, or Bsmith01,Ftonks06,Wwonka03,
Spaces and numbers are fine. Do not include passwords. If your students log into
the computers with unique usernames, then a .csv file of these usernames is usually
easy to obtain, and doubly useful as you can then use “Active directory logging on”
If your usernames have leading digits, such as 01Bsmith,06Ftonks,03Wwonka. AND
you are using v3.07,3.08,3.09, please email the file to us to convert into Shark
user names: This issue is corrected in Version 4.
3. Open the program. Sign in as an administrator. Go to Admin/Add and Manage/Add
Student.
4. Click the button “Import student names”. A browse window will open: Navigate through
to your file and open it.
5. Strip out any leading code and unwanted names and click “OK”.
6. This will place the names, with .sha extensions, into your [word][number]shark-shared
directory.
For detailed instructions, click here.
