MerIT
Recording your Achievements
Pupils’ Guide P4-P7
About MerIT
MerIT is an online record of your achievements in, and out of, school.
Each year your records are saved and over time they build up into a full
picture of your time at school.
Your MerIT record belongs to you. But, your teachers can go into it to see
your work and give you feedback on it. At home you can also share your
MerIT record with your parents or carers.
All you need is a computer and your username and password. It’s easy to
use and good fun to look back on all the great work you have done.
You can record all sorts of achievements, such as: learning to ride a bike,
getting a student of the month award or learning how to write a poem.
MerIT Homepage
MerIT Web Address - www.mymerit.net
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How to get started
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Log in using your username and password.
Your teacher will give these to you. Keep them safe.
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Remember to keep your username and password a secret,
even from your friends.
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If this is the first time you have used MerIT you will usually arrive at
the All about me page.
Contexts guide
My account
Information icon
Note: If we send you a news story you may see the MerIT News
page instead. Don’t worry! Just click on the menu option for All
about me to go to that page instead. You can read the News later!
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The menu is on the left-hand side of the page. It lists the different
activities and sections in MerIT.
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Before you start writing your ‘All about me’ profile you will probably
need to change your password to make it easier to remember.
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Go to the menu and click on My account. Click on Change
password. When you have finished click on Update.
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All about me – writing your profile
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Now you can begin. Use the menu to go back to All about me. Fill
in all of the sections. Click on the information icons to get some
help in deciding what to write about.
Save
 As you finish each box click on
at the bottom of
the page so that your work is saved. If you don’t save your work
within 30 minutes MerIT goes into ‘timed out’ and asks you to put
in your username and password again. It does this to keep your
information safe but it means that you lose what you have written if
you have not saved it!
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Upload a photo or image of yourself. First save your photograph
(or a picture representing you) to a folder on the computer.
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Click on the Browse button and a box will appear. Use it to find the
folder you saved your photograph in.
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Once you have found the photo click on it and then click on the
Open button. Click on Save or Save as a Word File when you
have finished to save your work in this section.
Achievement and progress – adding your achievement records
 Click on Achievement and progress.
Add an achievement
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 Click on Add an achievement.
Contexts box
‘Context’ tags
Text boxes
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Before you write about your achievement you need to think about the
context it took place in. Your teacher will help you with this.
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You can also move your mouse over ‘Remember the contexts for
learning’ box (in the top right-hand corner of the page) and click for
information about the four contexts.
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Give your achievement a title, for example ‘Being able to multiply
numbers’ and add the date you succeeded in doing it.
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Now click on the context tag that best describes where and how you
achieved it. The tag you add helps us to put the achievement into the
right folder in your ‘latest and best achievements’ section.
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You can choose more than one tag. For example, you may learn about
road safety in school (as part of Health and Wellbeing) and in a club (a
Personal Achievement).
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Write about your achievement in the two text boxes. Click on Add to
add your achievement to MerIT. Well done!
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Click on << Go back to your achievement and progress (it’s under
the Add button) to see your new record.
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Reading and making changes to your achievement records
Page number bar
Summary
Tool bar
Save as Word file
Your archive
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This section lists a short version or summary of every record you
add. As you add more records the page number bar will show the
number of pages in the section. You can click on the page numbers
to find records you added earlier in the year.
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Below the summary is a ‘tool bar’ - a list of the things you can do
with you achievement record.
Tool
View record
Update
Add file
Add to latest and best
Comment(s)
Delete
Date
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Purpose
See the full record
Update or change the record
Add a document, image or video file showing
your achievement (file size up to 3Mb)
Save the record as ‘best’ so it is saved in a
special section of MerIT
Counts any comments or feedback from your
teacher
Remove the record from your portfolio
Shows the date you added the record.
Take a look at the bottom of this page. This is your archive – the
place where all your achievement records from past years are
stored. Eventually you will have an archive for every school year.
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Latest and best achievements
This is a special section in MerIT where all of the achievements you
think are your very best are stored. It is listed in the menu and when
you click on it you will see this page.
Achievement folders
Do you remember the tag (or tags) you added to your achievement?
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Now you can see that your best achievements have been stored in
colour-coded folders. Each folder has the name of a ‘context’ tag
on it (see above).
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Click on a folder with the same name as the tag you added to your
achievement record. You should see the achievement in the folder.
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In your last year of primary school the achievements in this section
are copied over to your P7 Pupil Profile. We will tell you more
about this later.
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Learner statement
Usually, you will only write in this section once a year. Your learner
statement is a short report on your achievements so far. Your teacher will
help you with this.
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Go to the menu and click on Learner statement.
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You just write in the box and click on Submit to save your
statement.
At the end of primary school your statement is also copied into your P7
Pupil Profile.
Pupil Profile
Your pupil profile is a report you have to produce at the end of P7. But,
you can produce one every year if your teacher thinks you will find it
useful. You will have support from your teacher to help you with this.
It pulls together information from three different parts of MerIT. This
includes:
1. your latest and best achievements;
2. your learner statement; and
3. your plans and ambitions (from ‘All about me’).
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Go to the menu and click on Profile.
Click on Generate pupil profile. (After a few seconds a banner will
appear at the bottom of the page.)
Click on Open to open your profile as a Word document or Save to
save it to your computer before you open it.
Generate pupil profile
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The Big Picture
This is short online game to get you thinking about the four capacities.
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Successful learner
Confident individual
Responsible Citizen
Effective Contributor
Why not try matching what each of our characters has achieved with the
capacity it helped them to develop?
Saving and printing out your information on MerIT
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Always remember to save your work in MerIT as you go along by
clicking on this button.
Save
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You can also save your work to a Word file by clicking on this
button. This also means that you can print your work out.
Save as Word file
Logging out
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Click on Log off to leave MerIT.
Always log out when you have finished using MerIT. This
keeps your information safe.
Archived content
This is different from your section for storing your achievements every
year!
Any files or information you might have added to the old version of MerIT,
such as files from My Stuff, are stored here in case you want to use them
again.
Forgotten your password
If you ever forget your password, click on ‘I forgot my password’ (just
under the password box) on the MerIT home page. Put in your username
and click on ‘Recover’. MerIT will email it to you. Or, ask your teacher.
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