Launching Minga at your school is an exciting step toward a more connected campus! This guide ensures you stay compliant with privacy regulations by providing ready-to-use notification and permission forms. You will learn what data Minga requires and how to access the forms needed to keep your community informed.
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In this article:
Understand Data Privacy Requirements: Ensure your school meets local and federal privacy standards when launching Minga.
Required Student Information: Learn which specific data points, like email and name, are necessary to set up student accounts.
Access Parent Notification Forms: Download pre-made permission templates to simplify your communication with families.
Understand Data Privacy Requirements
When launching Minga, it is important to ensure you follow protocol and procedure for your School and District as well as Provincial, State and Federal requirements regarding the protection and privacy of students personal information. This usually means notifying students and parents about the use of this personal information.
Required Student Information
Minga uses Student Name and Student Email Address as required components to add a Student to a Minga. In addition, a student's birthdate can optionally be configured in Minga so they get birthday notifications, but this is an optional field and not required.
Parent Notification Forms
We have created a downloadable Notification/Permission Form to make it easy to notify parents and students of the introduction of Minga at your school. We have provided a black and white and color form in the links below: