Updating Unique Identifier Data

Updating Unique Identifier (aka ID) Data Manually

Users can update individual unique identifiers one at a time directly in the System Administration interface. For example:

  1. Navigate to Courses & Sections.
  2. Click into a specific Course Detail page.
  3. Select Edit Details.
    This will open a flyout where you can modify the section_ID.

    A Section Details page in an online platform showing section information and enrollments, with an Edit Section Details panel open showing fields for affiliated course, course section number, section ID, and term, and with the Section Details label, Edit Section Details title, the Section ID field, and the Cancel and Save buttons highlighted.

Updating Unique Identifier Data in Bulk

When a larger number of updates are required, System Administrators can submit a request through our Help Center. Be sure to attach a spreadsheet with a column of the ‘current IDs’ and a column with the ‘update-to-IDs.’ See example below.

A spreadsheet in a data‑mapping file showing two columns labeled ‘from’ and ‘to,’ with term IDs listed in the first column and corresponding term codes listed in the second column.

Example data above show the current and updated ids, which will need to be provided to Watermark Support

For information on how to submit a Support request, please see the article linked Contacting Watermark's Client Support.

Reviewing Current Data

Obtain and review current data by exporting it from a Data Page in System Administration.

A Courses & Sections page in an online platform showing navigation options for managing courses and sections, with the Courses & Sections menu item highlighted and the Sections tab selected, along with an Export Data dropdown showing options including Export Course Sections, which is highlighted.

Data Types and Unique Identifiers

The table below shows which data files support updates via CSV and which field serves as the unique identifier:

Data Type CSV File Name Unique Identifier
Organizations organizations.csv organization_code
Programs programs.csv program_code
People person.csv person_id
Terms terms.csv term_id
Courses courses.csv course_catalog_code
Sections sections.csv section_id
Enrollments enrollments.csv (None)
Person Attributes basicpersonattributes.csv (None)
Student Term Attributes studenttermattributes.csv (None)
Program Curriculum programcurriculum.csv (None)
Cohort Enrollments cohortenrollments.csv (None)
Roles roles.csv (None)
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