Leaving MKA

This page provides technology guidance for students, faculty, and staff who are leaving MKA.

Please follow all of the instructions below for securing your data and signing out of all accounts prior to returning your MKA-issued laptop, charger (two chargers for faculty/staff), and iPad (faculty only). All data will be erased from your device(s) after it is returned.

Your various MKA accounts will be discontinued. This includes Google Workspace for Education, @mka.org email, Veracross, NoodleTools, and Turnitin. See below for more information about how to handle your data in these accounts.

We STRONGLY encourage you to identify any other personal accounts that use your @mka.org email address (including uses as alternate or recovery email addresses) and to change those email addresses.

Those needing assistance transitioning the data to a new device should schedule a time with a member of the technology department prior to the 2024-2025 DUE DATES.

Departing Students and Faculty/Staff: Those who leave during the school year will lose access to their accounts after their final day at MKA. Those needing time or assistance in transitioning data should contact a member of the Technology Department.

Non-Returning Students and Faculty/Staff: Those who complete the school year, but are not returning for the following year, will lose access to their accounts on June 30th.

Graduating Seniors: Graduates will lose access to their accounts on June 30th.

Please contact your campus Tech Center if you have any questions.

Upper School: Jo-Rel Wilkins
Middle School: Mike Alexander
Primary School: Helen Noble

Managing your various MKA Accounts

Please complete these five(5) steps PRIOR to dropping off your laptop. You can visit your campus Tech Center for help with any of these:

1. Google Drive Desktop

2. Google Data

There are three options for moving your school "Google" data:

Manually download or copy data
1. Download individual files from Google Drive to your new device
2. Save individual emails as PDF files OR forward them to another email account
You can copy your data from your school account to a personal Google account.
1. Allows you to copy email and documents in your Drive to a personal Google account. Directions for this option can be found here.
Download your data using Google Takeout.
1. Allows you to download larger amounts and various types of content at the same time (e.g., multiple Google Drive files, Gmail, Calendar events).
2. When downloading data from Google Drive, you will need to choose the file type. For example, you can download Google Docs as Microsoft Word files and Google Sheets as Microsoft Excel files.

Google Takeout Instructions

1. Launch Chrome and go to www.google.com and login to your MKA account.

2. Go to https://takeout.google.com/.

3. Select the data to include in the Takeout process.

There are multiple options to choose from and all are selected by default. The majority of these are not needed. The following are recommended:

Calendar
Chrome
Contacts
Drive
Google Photos
Mail

NOTE: You will want to make sure DRIVE is selected as this will not only takeout all of your Google files, but also those folders and files synced via Back and Sync located in “Computers”.

4. Once you have selected the items for Takeout, select “Next Steps”.

5. In the “Choose file type, frequency & destination” section you have three options:

Frequency - Select “Export once” (default selection)
File type and size - Select .zip (default selection)
Select a maximum file size before the files will be split before multiple downloads (1GB-50GB).

NOTE: If the amount of data you are syncing using Backup and Sync is large (over 5GB) you may want to consider a larger file size to limit the number of files to download (see number 2 in Google Backup and Sync instructions).

6. Click “Create export” after making your selections.

7. You will be presented with an “Export progress” window.

You do not need to wait for the export to complete as the process may take some time, and you will receive an email notification when completed (see number 9 below).

8. When the export is complete you can download the file(s) create during the process.

You have the ability to do this process multiple times and you can manage those exports by clicking the “Manage exports” button.

9. You will receive an email once the export request has been made that provides a link to “Check activity”.

The email not only alerts you to the fact the export request in progress but in the event, you did not make the request and someone has unauthorized access to your account.

10. You will receive a second email when the process completes with links to “Manage” and “Download” the archive files.

3. AppleID, iCloud, iTunes, & FileVault

Sign out of iCloud

Deauthorize iTunes/Music app

Turn off FileVault (Students ONLY)

4. NoodleTools

Your MKA NoodleTools account will be deleted at the end of June.

If you have work in NoodleTools that you would like to continue to be able to access after MKA, here is what you need to do:

Sign up for a new individual subscription at http://noodle.to/taketocollege
Log out of the new account and then log in to your MKA account.
On the Projects screen, mark the checkboxes next to any projects that you wish to transfer, then click the "Copy" button at the top of the list of projects.
On the next screen, choose the option to "Copy to another user's folder" and fill in the Personal ID you selected for your individual subscription (note: if other users have the same ID, you may be prompted here to select which folder you want to copy your projects into — be sure to select the "Individual subscription" option from the dropdown list in that case). Your projects will be copied over to your new folder, where you can continue working on them.

If you attempt to move your projects after July 31, when you no longer have access to your MKA account, please submit a support ticket to NoodleTools. Provide your old and new personal IDs and they will copy the projects for you.

5. TurnItIn (US only)

2024-2025 DUE DATES

All devices and power adapters must be returned to the campus Technology Center by the following:

Seniors

All seniors will return their laptop and charger at the conclusion of the May Term Symposium on Tuesday June 3rd.

Non-Returning Students (Gr. 4-11)

Middle School - Thursday, June 5th by end of day
Upper School - Friday, June 6th by end of day

Faculty/Staff

Wednesday, June 11th by end of day

(Updated - 2/21/2025