Make sure that you have at least one course with a student enroled in the course, preferably with the student having made a submission to an assignment. Go to 'Site administration > Users > Privacy and policies > Privacy settings' and enable 'Contact the privacy officer'. Log in as the student mentioned above. Click on the user menu in the top right corner. Click 'Profile' In the 'Privacy and policies' section click the link 'Export all of my personal data' Add a comment (anything) and click save changes. Log in as the administrator (or privacy officer if you have that set up). Go to 'Site administration > Users > Privacy and policies > Data requests'. Find the request made by the student and approve it (Actions menu - Approve request.). Run the cron. From the command line type in: php admin/cli/cron.php When the cron is finished refresh the Data requests page. The request should have the status of 'Download ready'. From the actions menu click the Download link. Save the file to your computer. Extract the downloaded file somewhere. Open the extracted folder. open index.html in a browser (double click the file). Check that the navigation on the left expands. Clicking on User {name of the student} should result in more items being show such data.json.