How To Import Student Pictures with pictures.zip
Although you do not have to upload student pictures to use Transportant, doing so lets you and especially your drivers get the most out of the system. Here's how to do that.
How to Upload Pictures
- On your computer, create a folder named "pictures".
- Copy your students' pictures into the pictures folder. Confirm that all pictures are in .jpg, .jpeg, or .png format.
- If needed, rename the pictures so that each is named with the student's ID as given in students.csv, followed by the picture's extension (either jpg or png). For example, if student Mary-Ellen Abbott has ID number 20794 and her picture is in jpg format, then her picture should be named 20794.jpg.
- Check your work, confirming that it contains nothing other than student pictures in the correct format and named appropriately.
- Compress the students' pictures into a zip file named pictures.zip. How this is done depends on your operating system. Examples:
- Windows 10: Be in the File Explorer, looking at the list of pictures. Press Control-A to select all of the pictures. Right click on the selection, and select Compress. A new file will be created. Right click on it and rename the new file pictures.zip.
- macOS 14 Sonoma: Be in Finder, looking at the list of pictures. Press Command-A to select all of the pictures. Right click on the selection, and select Compress. A new file will be created named Archive.zip. Right click on it and select Rename, giving the new file the name pictures.zip.
Send pictures.zip to us by following the instructions at
How to Send Data to Transportant. That page gives several methods; "manual data import" is a good choice.
Troubleshooting
If the upload fails, decompress ("unzip") pictures.zip on your own computer. This is usually done by double clicking or right clicking on it. Then inspect the contents, making sure that it contains nothing other than pictures, the pictures are all in an acceptable format, and that the pictures are all named appropriately. Most problems come from accidentally including one or another file that is not a picture.
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