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title: Export chat records
description: Download student conversations — with quiz results — as a searchable web page, a spreadsheet, or plain text.
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  label: Export chat records
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When you want to keep student conversations, analyze them, or share them with a co-instructor or for research, you can export them from the dashboard. Everything downloads to your computer as a single `.zip` file — no student ever sees the export.

## How to export

1. **Open the Student Chats tab**

    Go to your chatbot and open **Student Chats**, the same place you [review
    conversations](/instructors/review-conversations).

2. **Choose what to export**

    Use **Export all** to download every conversation, or tick the checkboxes
    next to specific chats and use **Export selected**.

3. **Pick your formats**

    A short dialog lets you choose any combination of the formats below. A
    README explaining each file is always included.

4. **Download the bundle**

    Everything arrives as one `.zip`. Unzip it and open whichever file suits
    what you're doing.

## The formats

**Visual transcript (HTML)**

Double-click to open in any web browser. A searchable, clickable copy of the
dashboard: a list of conversations on the left, the full chat on the right.

**Spreadsheet (CSV)**

Opens in Excel or Google Sheets. One row per message, with columns for the
conversation, turn, role, timestamp, message, sources, and study tools —
ready for sorting and analysis.

**Plain text (TXT)**

A portable transcript grouped by conversation. Opens anywhere, keeps nothing
but the words.

:::tip[Which one should I use?]
Open the **HTML** file to read through chats comfortably, use the **CSV** for
counting and filtering across many students, and keep the **plain text** for
long-term archives or pasting into other tools.
:::

## What's included

**The full conversation**

Every student question and the assistant's reply, in order, with timestamps.

**The sources cited**

Which of your materials the assistant drew on for each answer.

**Quizzes and study tools**

Any interactive quiz a student was given, with the questions, the correct
answers, and what the student chose on each attempt — plus their score.

**A README**

A short guide describing exactly which files are in the bundle and how to
open each one.

## The visual (HTML) export

The HTML file is the easiest way to read an export. It looks and works like the
Student Chats dashboard:

1. **Search**

    Type in the search box to filter conversations by anything a student or the
    assistant said.

2. **Click to open**

    Select a conversation to read the full exchange, styled just like the app.

3. **Review quiz answers**

    Quiz turns show the answer key alongside each of the student's attempts, so
    you can see what they got right and where they struggled.

It's a single self-contained file: no internet connection is needed to open it,
and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

## A note on student privacy

Exports contain the same anonymized conversations you see in the dashboard.
Once a file is on your computer it's outside Teach Anything, so store and share
it with the same care you'd give any student record, and follow your
institution's privacy policies — especially for anything used in research.

**[Next: Account and privacy](/instructors/account-and-privacy)**

Manage your account, understand data handling, and delete your account if you
choose.