Preparing for a new school year is a great time to refresh your digital campus. This article will help you get your Minga ready by walking you through the Minga Resets tool. You will learn how to clear out old data, reset leaderboards, and manage your rosters so you can start the year with a clean slate and accurate information.
Permission Level Required: Owner
In this article:
Resetting Points, Content, and Automation Counters: Learn how to wipe leaderboard rankings and clear old feed posts, clear group settings, and reset automation counters.
Disable Automated Parent Communications: Prevent parents from receiving automated notifications and summaries over the summer break.
Updating Your Rostering Settings: See how to automate student and staff updates for the new term.
Resetting Points, Content, and Automation Counters
Owners can quickly reset various modules within Minga to ensure the platform reflects the current school year's activities and members.
Step-by-Step Guide to Resetting Your Minga
Step-by-Step Guide to Resetting Your Minga
Navigate to the Settings menu on your dashboard.
Click on the Settings tab and select Minga Resets.
Select the Option that corresponds to the data you wish to clear:
Points and Leaderboard: This resets both user points and rankings across the platform.
Leaderboard - Wipes all leaderboard rankings and removes points from users' profiles. The points are still accessible through reports.
Groups and Members: This deletes all existing Groups, their associated content, and all members within them.
Group Members Only: This removes all members from Groups but keeps the Group Owner in place.
Content: This removes all posts and media from every feed in your Minga.
Automation Counters: This resets the tracking numbers for all active Automations.
Click the Confirm or Reset button to finalize your choice.
Attention: Resetting these modules is a permanent action and cannot be undone once you click reset.
Disable Automated Parent Communications
Keeping parents updated on their students activities and behaviors is a great tool throughout the school year, but it is a good idea to pause these automatic emails over breaks in the year such as Summer or Winter break.
Weekly Parent Summary Reports (Plus and Premium subscriptions only)
To prevent parents from getting weekly summary reports over periods where there is no student data you will need to toggle this setting OFF.
Step-by-Step Guide to Disabling Weekly Summary Reports
Step-by-Step Guide to Disabling Weekly Summary Reports
Select Settings from the main menu.
Navigate to the Settings tab.
Expand the Communication & Notifications section to view personalized notification settings.
Toggle OFF Enable Weekly Summaries.
Parent Behavior and Consequence Notifications
If you have not reset the counters for your Automation Groups, parents may still receive notifications on from unresolved consequences assigned to their student and are continuing to escalate over the break.
To prevent this, we have a few best practices you can employ:
Reset Automation Counters for all Automation Groups: This ensures that when the new school year starts, students start at 0 for all automations.
Only send Parent Notifications (email and sms) on consequences assigned and not individual behaviors: This prevents parents from receiving multiple contacts for the same incident.
Updating your Rostering Settings
We strongly recommend setting up Automatic Rostering so your departing students will be archived and incoming students added automatically!
Ensure you have Auto-update and Archive enabled for students, teachers, and staff to keep user information accurate and up-to-date.
We also recommend ensuring that the correct terms are selected under the setting Manage class rosters to be synced. These are not automatically selected at the start or end of terms and can affect which class lists are automatically rostered:
FAQs
FAQs
How do I reset my school's points and leaderboards for the new year?
You can reset points and leaderboard rankings by navigating to Settings, selecting Minga Resets, and clicking the Points and Leaderboard option.
Can I remove students from groups without deleting the group itself?
Yes, you can remove members while keeping the group structure by selecting the Group Members Only option in the Minga Resets menu; this will remove all users except for the Group Owners.
What happens if I cannot use Automatic Rostering?
If you are unable to set up Automatic Rostering, you can update your Students and Staff lists manually by uploading new CSV files to the Users section
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Issue: The Reset button is not appearing.
Solution: Verify that your account is assigned the Owner permission level, as this is the only role authorized to perform school-wide resets.
Issue: I accidentally reset my content and need it back.
Solution: Because resets cannot be undone, please contact Minga Support immediately to see if a database restoration is possible for your specific instance.