NSID download 'Readme First'

The Ministry of Education has allocated National Student Numbers (NSNs) for all students in ENROL.

We have made a file with your students NSN available for you to download into your Student Management System (SMS). This file is created from the .moe file you sent last March.

This document explains how to download the file from ENROL and import it into your Student Management System (SMS).

Process

To download the NSNs from ENROL

1. Log into ENROL.
2. Select the link "National Student Number Files" at the bottom of your screen.  A new window will open in your web browser. The page will display:
   - A guide to importing NSNs to your Student Management System.
   - A text file containing the NSNs.  (i.e. nsidnnnn.txt)
3. Download each of these files to your computer. Right-click on each link and select Save As.
   - Remember to save it somewhere that is easy to find.
   - Do not change the filename.
4. Import the "nsidnnnn.txt" file into your Student Management System according to the instructions from your SMS vendor.

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Checking NSNs

Not all the students in your SMS may end up with a NSN after the upload. This is expected.  Some students may not appear in the NSID file because of data matching issues or because they enrolled after 2nd March 2009.

If you need the NSN in your SMS now and your SMS supports the "Get/Check NSN" functionality, then you can use this to retrieve the correct NSN from ENROL.

Schools with an SMS that does not support "Get/Check NSN" yet, can - if they need it - copy the relevant NSN from the ENROL front end into their SMS.

If you have no immediate need for a complete set of NSNs, then no further action is required after the import of the NSID file.

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About the files in ENROL

nsidnnnn.txt

Contains students information for your school, including student name(s), birth dates, and NSN numbers. Only students assigned an NSN and for which a perfect match was found in ENROL appear in this file.

You can only access an NSID file for your school. The file name is "nsidnnnn.txt," where nnnn is your school institution number (e.g. nsid0257.txt)

SMS instruction file

Instructions from your accredited SMS vendor on how to import the NSID file into your SMS.

Readme file

A copy of this document that you are currently reading.

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Help and more information

Help downloading files or general questions about ENROL:
Phone: 04-463 8383
Email: e.admin@minedu.govt.nz [no spam]

For help importing the "nsidnnnn.txt" file into your SMS system, please contact your SMS Vendor.

Get more information about the National Student Number.