Welcome to your Mana journey! As leaders at your centre, you play a key role in bringing Mana to life. Setting things up properly now means less admin later, smoother workflows for your team and more time to focus on what matters most: supporting children’s learning and growth.
This guide will walk you through everything you need to get your centre Mana-ready.
Some steps may already be taken care of by your organisation: check in with your Mana point of contact if you’re unsure.
To get the best out of training, we recommend you complete all actions in this guide before your centre’s training session.
To start, let’s bookmark the Mana help centre, your one-stop shop for all of your ongoing Mana support needs: https://help.makemana.com/en/
You will see these icons used throughout the guide:
✅ Green tick: key action to complete
📖 Book: read more for further support
💡 Light bulb: guidance on further support
⚠️ Exclamation point: take note
Centre Setup
✅ Confirm your educators have accepted their invites to join Mana
📖 Read more: Manage team members
✅ Set up your centre’s rooms in Mana and assign children to rooms
📖 Read more: How do I create a room/group and add children?
✅ Set up your centre’s stages for journeys (note: 'journeys' in Mana signifies your cycle of planning, or individual learning plans)
📖 Read more: What are stages in a journey?
✅ Decide whether to assign children to educators, or ask educators to mark their key children themselves
💡If you decide to assign children to educators, you need to enable key educator management in Mana.
📖 Read more: Add children and mark key children
⚠️ Note: if you enable this, educators will not be able to assign children to themselves, this will need to be done by management. If you decide that educators should assign children to themselves, they will be guided on how to do this in their activation material.
Centre Personalisation
✅ Finally, personalise Mana to your centre:
This is where the magic starts to take place! Personalising Mana to your centre makes the platform more meaningful and effective. Every centre has its own routines, culture, and priorities: when Mana reflects that, educators see information that feels relevant, families feel more connected, and the Mana supports your way of working.
📖 Read more: Configure team settings
✅ Add your centre’s writing style (if applicable)
✅ Add your centre’s philosophy
✅ Add your centre’s learning framework/s
✅ Add your centre’s service type
✅ Configure your team’s coaching settings
