Previous Step: Learn about how Merit works
Before publishing your first achievements, you'll want to configure some important settings inside your Merit account. Here's a checklist of the most important things you'll want to do before publishing your first story:
User Accounts - Add as many users as you need to your Merit account, each with their own privileges.
Contact Information - Add your appropriate default contact information to your Merit account.
Whitelisting - Add Merit's IP addresses to your institutional safe senders list to prevent emails from your students from being blocked or labeled as spam.
Whitelabeling - Work with your IT team to configure Merit so that your emails to students and parents originate from your institution's domain.
From and Reply-To Addresses - Choose the email address that your emails to students will come from and the address their responses will go to.
Email Logo - Upload a logo to use on your emails to students and parents.
Welcome Email - Customize the language that will introduce and welcome your students to Merit.
Landing Pages - Set up Merit to host your achievements on your website instead of meritpages.com.
Your Merit Page - Add colors and images to your institutional Merit page to more closely reflect your institution's brand.
Boilerplate - Save your institution's boilerplate inside your account for regular use.
Certificates - Create printable certificates for your most important achievements.
Social Media Connections - Add Facebook and Twitter to Merit to automatically share your achievements on your institution's social accounts.
Once these settings are all in place, you're ready to start sharing stories through Merit.
Next Step: Learn to publish achievements