diff --git a/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
index 6d10fe3e9d7..60485160495 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
@@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ module ApplicationSettingsHelper
   def import_sources_checkboxes(help_block_id)
     Gitlab::ImportSources.options.map do |name, source|
       checked = current_application_settings.import_sources.include?(source)
-      css_class = 'btn'
-      css_class += ' active' if checked
+      css_class = checked ? 'active' : ''
       checkbox_name = 'application_setting[import_sources][]'
 
-      label_tag(checkbox_name, class: css_class) do
+      label_tag(name, class: css_class) do
         check_box_tag(checkbox_name, source, checked,
                       autocomplete: 'off',
-                      'aria-describedby' => help_block_id) + name
+                      'aria-describedby' => help_block_id,
+                      id: name.tr(' ', '_')) + name
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml b/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
index 95cae5ea24b..ce803f329f9 100644
--- a/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
@@ -31,10 +31,8 @@
     .form-group
       = f.label :import_sources, class: 'control-label col-sm-2'
       .col-sm-10
-        - data_attrs = { toggle: 'buttons' }
-        .btn-group{ data: data_attrs }
-          - import_sources_checkboxes('import-sources-help').each do |source|
-            = source
+        - import_sources_checkboxes('import-sources-help').each do |source|
+          .checkbox= source
         %span.help-block#import-sources-help
           Enabled sources for code import during project creation. OmniAuth must be configured for GitHub
           = link_to "(?)", help_page_path("integration/github")
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/24161-non-intuitive-buttons-for-import-sources-in-administrator-settings-enable-disable.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/24161-non-intuitive-buttons-for-import-sources-in-administrator-settings-enable-disable.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1404748e83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/24161-non-intuitive-buttons-for-import-sources-in-administrator-settings-enable-disable.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Changed import sources buttons to checkboxes
+merge_request: 7598
+author: Luke "Jared" Bennett