Welcome!
Congratulations on choosing Merlyn! This guide will walk you through getting Merlyn ready for your teachers to use in their classrooms.
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1. Claim your Organization and Add Admins
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Go to the Management Console for Origin. |
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Claim the Organization Search for your organization, select it from the dropdown, and click Claim. You can choose to register the highest-level organization, and/or individual schools as well. This is for your own organizational purposes. Note that once you claim an organization, no one else can claim it. |
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You can add up to 19 additional admins who will be able to manage the devices and users for the organizations in the management console. Enter their emails when prompted to add Admins and click Next when done. |
2. Upload a Roster
The Roster grants permission for users within your organization to use Merlyn Origin. You can upload a roster or add individual emails to grant access to Merlyn using one of the licenses provisioned to your organization.
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Download this CSV template. If you have a CSV list of emails you want to add, that will work here as well! |
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Enter User Emails to Roster |
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Add the Roster to your Org |
3. Activate License Keys
The person designated as license key recipient during the sales process will be sent an email with the license keys. If you are unsure who this person is in your organization, please ask your director of technology or submit a support request.
Select the organization from the dropdown to assign license keys. License keys may be split between organizations. If you do not assign all available license keys, they will become active, but will not be assigned to an organization until you do so.
4. School network allow list
There are two tasks that must happen before Merlyn can successfully operate within your network infrastructure:
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Your Network Administrator must implement the entire Merlyn Origin Allowlist to allow access to these Merlyn-provided cloud services for any devices Merlyn Origin is used with. |
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Merlyn Origin software uses port 3513 locally on each machine to communicate between the Merlyn Desktop App and Browser Extension. Please ensure this port is not in use by other installed applications. |
Email allow list
Ask your email administrator to allow all emails from "merlyn.org" to ensure prompt receipt of teacher training materials and other important announcements from Merlyn Mind.
5. Teacher laptop and device setup
There are two required applications that will need to be installed on the end users' devices in order to use Merlyn. If you distribute applications to Windows-based computers via MDM, there is a third Permission File that is required.
Each District has its own policy regarding application deployment, and we will work within your policies. You might be able to push the applications through a group policy or enable your end users to download the applications themselves by adding our URL to your allow list.
Downloads
The following software is required to be installed on the teacher's laptop for Merlyn to function.
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Browser Extension |
The browser extension is available for Chrome and Edge browsers. Please be sure to verify the default browser is set to either Chrome or Edge. Only install the extension on one browser, using the profile most used while teaching. |
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Desktop App |
Direct download for Mac and Windows OR Download from the Microsoft Store *Please refer to this guide if your policy, security, or antivirus is blocking the installation. |
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Permissions File MDM only |
If you are planning to distribute our applications to PCs via MDM, please install the WinUSB driver to allow the permissions needed for Find My Remote. |
*Districts within NYC: The Department of Education requires you to follow these steps to download the Merlyn application and browser extension.
For Windows installations, .exe file is recommended for users with admin privileges. With users with lower privileges, or for distributing to users with lower privileges, it is recommended to use the .msix file.
For MacOS installations, be sure to finish the installation by dragging the MMDesktop app from the Downloads folder into the Applications folder. This will not happen automatically as our app is not downloaded from the App store.
For MacOS installations, after inserting the Merlyn USB, you may be prompted to "Identify a new keyboard". This is a default action from MacOS. Click "Back" to close the window and continue.
IT Admins, if you are planning to distribute our applications to PCs via MDM, please install the WinUSB driver located at the bottom of this page before installing the desktop application to ensure full compatibility.
6. Integrations
Does your district use Canvas or Google Classroom? Head over to our Canvas Integration Guide to connect your site and unlock even more shortcuts for your teachers!
Google Classroom can be integrated quickly within our Teacher Toolkit!
7. What's in the box
The QR code sticker will guide users to this installation guide or to the Get-Started Guide for teachers.
8. Connecting the Merlyn USB Receiver
The final steps in setting up the teacher's laptop are plugging the USB receiver into the computer and removing the battery tab from the remote.
Now, the teacher is ready to use their Merlyn!
You can share this guide with them so they can check their set-up as well.
Don't miss a thing! Download our Origin Checklist just below to make sure you're prepared.
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