Your Merit dashboard is key to your Merit account. Allowing you to access every aspect of your subscription. At the top of the page, you'll find a navigation bar with drop-down menus allowing you to write achievements, send press releases, view media monitoring pick-ups, and more. In this knowledge base article, we will dissect the elements that make up your Merit Dashboard.
The Merit Dashboard page includes a network map, snapshot analytics of your Merit network, a list of your recent stories, tasks, and stories from other institutions in your network.
Network Map
The Network Map offers details about your school's geographic reach and the local regions you are distributing achievements too. The interactive map will show you your students throughout the US. You can zoom in to check out individual zip codes and click any blue pin to view the numbers of parents and parents from that area and the media and government officials relevant to them:
Your Merit Network
The Network bar gives you a basic overview of the stakeholders in the Merit Network related to your current students. Each card is interactive; you can click each card for a description of the data and the hyperlinks they contain to get more details about each stakeholder group.
Please note that the network bar contains information about ONLY your current students. Students who have graduated are not included in these statistics.
Below is a description of the data you will find in each card in the order they appear:
Students
- The total number of non-graduated students (8,271) with Merit pages.
- The number of non-graduated students (4,170) who have appeared in Merit achievements
- The number of achievements (504) your institution has published featuring these enrolled students
- The percentage of students (90%) who viewed their achievement emails
Note: A student is considered to have graduated if they have earned a graduation achievement or their Merit class year is in the past.
Parents
- The total number of parents (4,096) associated with your non-graduated students in Merit
- The number of parents (2,323) who have been emailed a story about their child
- The total number of achievements (7,424) these parents have received by email
- The percentage of parents (78%) who viewed their achievement emails
High Schools
- The total number of high schools (1,177) associated with your non-graduated students in Merit
- The number of high schools (902) that have been emailed a story about their alumni
- The total number of alumni achievements (2,364) delivered to these high schools
- The number of times (6,525) high schools have shared stories about your students on their Merit page
Media
- The total number of newspapers/media (2.096) associated with your non-graduated students in Merit
- The number of media outlets (1,285) you've emailed a story about a local student to
- The total number of students (29,129) featured in press releases delivered to these media outlets
- The estimated number of US zip codes (21,536) included in the circulation/coverage area of these media outlets
Government Reps
- The total number of government representatives (2,555) associated with your non-graduated students in Merit
- The number of government reps (1,315) you've emailed a story about local students
- The total number of student stories (9,163) delivered to these representatives
- The number of times (260) these government reps have congratulated your students through Merit
Social Media
- The estimated number of times (4,461) stories about your non-graduated students were shared on various social media sites
- The estimated number of times (130,223) your student's stories were viewed on Facebook
- The number of times (293) your students' stories were shared on Twitter
- The number of times (729) your students' stories were shared on LinkedIn
Your Recent Stories
Under Your Recent Stories, you will find your last five achievements and quick links to access additional information on these five stories. From the dashboard you can:
- View the engagement report for an achievement by clicking the headline. Learn more about the engagement report here.
- Create a Copy of this achievement. This will take you into the achievement workflow with the text of this story pre-filled. Just add students and edit your text as needed. Learn more
- Make a Correction if your previously published achievement contained errors. This will take you into the workflow, where you can makes changes to your title, summary, online student stories and press releases. You can also alter your achievement's topic and semester, upload new photos, or select a new landing page. Learn more
- Add Students who were omitted from the original achievement. This will take you into the workflow and prompt you to add new students through either a spreadsheet or Merit search. Learn more
- Share this achievement with others by email. The recipient(s) will receive an email that directs them to view the published achievement
Click the See All Stories button at the bottom of the page or go to the Achievements tab to view less recent stories.
Tasks
The Tasks section of your Dashboard calls out items that need your attention inside your account. There are four different kinds of alerts that can appear in your Tasks section:
- Achievements on Hold - Achievements that a Merit editor has reviewed but spotted an error in. These alerts will be highlighted in red and require corrections prior to publishing. You will have received an email from the Merit team describing the necessary corrections.
- Achievements to Review - Achievements submitted by a member of your team whose stories need your approval before going out. These alerts will be highlighted in yellow and must be approved by you (or another approver at your institution).
- Upcoming Achievements - Achievements that have been added to the Achievement Calendar in Merit. These alerts let you know when your planned stories are coming up or past due. Learn more about Merit's Achievement Calendar.
- Mentions to Review - Discoveries that Merit AI found while crawling your news feeds. When Merit picks up a mention of your students in these feeds you will see an alert here. Follow the link to turn it into an achievement. Learn more about Merit A.I here.
From Your Network
Other schools or organizations may occasionally publish stories about your students or alumni. If they do, you will see them listed in the From Your Network section on your Dashboard. You do not need to take any action with the content that appears in the From Your Network section. However, there are two actions you can take on these findings:
- View - click the achievement headline to view the story published by an affiliated school or organization
- Share - click Share to and you can post this story about your student on your institution’s Merit page